Juniorprof. Dr. Lucy Gasser

Anglistik
Neuer Graben 40
49069 Osnabrück

Raum: 41/115
Tel.: +49 541 969-4085
E-Mail: lucy.gasser@uni-osnabrueck.de

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Lehrveranstaltungen

Lebenslauf

April 2023-present: Junior Professor for English Literary and Cultural Studies in Global Contexts, Universität Osnabrück
Oct 2019-Mar 2023: Lecturer, Institute for English and American Studies, Universität Potsdam
Oct 2016-Sep 2019: Doctoral Fellow, DFG Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms, Universität Potsdam
Oct-Dec 2017: Guest Researcher, Delhi University
Oct 2014-Sep 2016: Lecturer & Doctoral Candidate, Freie Universität Berlin
Dec 2012: MA in English Literature, Language & Modernity, University of Cape Town

Seit April 2024: Dezentrale Gleichstellungsbeauftragte, Fachbereich 7

Seit April 2025: Stellvertretende Insitutsdirektorin, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Seit April 2025: Vorsitzende Zulassungskommission MA "Literatur und Kultur in Europa"

Seit April 2024: Stellvertrendes Mitglied im Senat

May 2023-May 2025: Beirat, Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (GAPS)

Arbeitsschwerpunkte und Forschung

Postcolonial Studies

Literatures & Cultures of the Global South

Afro-Asian Publishing Cultures

African Literatures

(Post)Colonial Europe

Speculative Fictions

Resources for international students interested in doing a PhD in Germany:

https://g-a-p-s.net/doing-your-phd-in-germany/

Platform for postcolonial literatures:

poco.lit.

Publikationen

Selected publications

“Lotus: Material Solidarities and the GDR Connection.” Comparative Literature Studies, forthcoming 63:2, 2026.

“Local Circuits, Shared Imaginaries: An Interview with a Lotus Reader.” Crafting Entanglements: Afro-Asian Pasts of the Global Cold War. April 2025, no. 7. DOI: 10.58144/20250527-000 

“It began with naming things”­: mzungus and Other European colonizers in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives.” Critique: Journal of Contemporary Fiction. (2024) Doi: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2382457

“Reaching for the Stars: The Zambian Space Programme and Alternative Imaginaries of Space Travel.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. (June 2023). Doi: 10.1080/1369801X.2023.2216687

“A Prague Text: Reconfiguring Marginality in and of Europe.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 59:1 (2022). Doi: 10.1080/17449855.2022.2092956

“What’s in a World? Rerouting World Literature with Lotus and the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association.” Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South. Andrea Gremels, Maren Scheurer, Frank Schulze-Engler and Jarula Wegner (eds). Hanover: Ibidem, 2022.

“Back from the USSR: Envisioning the Global with Plural Normative Horizons.” Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global. Sandra Holtgreve, Karlson Preuß, Mathias Albert (eds). Bielefeld: transcript, 2021.

“Other Europes, Past and Future.” minor cosmopolitan: Thinking Art, Politics and the Universe Together Otherwise. Zairong Xiang (ed). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 2020.

“The Centre Cannot Hold: Imagining the Soviet Union from the Global South.” Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 4:1 (2019).

“Towards Eurasia: Remapping Europe as ‘upstart peripheral to an ongoing operation’.” Postcolonial Studies 22:2 (2019). (Open Access) Doi: 10.1080/13688790.2019.1608798

Monograph

East and South: Mapping Other Europes. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.

Edited volume

The Minor on the Move: Doing Cosmopolitanisms. With Kylie Crane, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss and Anna von Rath. Münster: edition assemblage, 2021.