Publications (Selection)

Research Monograph

Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds. Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Eds. Gina Wisker, Denise deCaires Narain and Andrea Quaid. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021.

Editorial Work

Ecological Inter/Dependencies: Strong Asymmetrical Relations and More-than-Human Worlds. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch and Zeynep Y. Gökçe. Berlin: De Gruyter. Forthcoming 2025.

(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and the Study of Dependency. Special Issue. Life Writing. With Pia Wiegmink. Forthcoming 2025.

Indentured Bodies/Embodiments of Indenture. Special Issue. Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies. 2025. 4:2. With Sinah Theres Kloß.

Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds. Double Special Issue. Postcolonial Text. 2024. 19:1&2.

Ecocritical Perspectives on the Long Nineteenth Century: Form, Materiality, Politics. Special Issue. Anglia: Journal of English Philology. 2024. 142: 1. With Stefanie John.

Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023.

Journal Articles

“Early Modern Encounters between Africa and Europe in Leo Africanus’s The Cosmography and Geography of Africa (1526).” Matatu: Journal of African Culture and Society. Special Issue: ‘Africa in Europe, Europe in Africa’: Transcultural Histories in African Anglophone Literature and Media. Eds. Nadia Butt and Michelle Stork. 2025.

“Introduction: Indentured Bodies/Embodiments of Indenture.” With Sinah Theres Kloß. Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies. Special Issue: Indentured Bodies/Embodiments of Indenture. Eds. Sinah Theres Kloß and Jennifer Leetsch. 2025. 4:2. 1–20.

“New Ways of Telling True Stories: Reflections on Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds.” With Arunima Bhattacharya, Apala Bhowmick, Trang Dang, Baldeep Kaur, Hannah Nelson-Teutsch, Alisa Preusser, Peri Sipahi and Christina Slopek-Hauff. Postcolonial Text. Double Special Issue: Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds. Ed. Jennifer Leetsch. 2024. 19:1&2. 1–11.

“Oceanic Kinship and Coastal Ecologies: More-than-Human Encounters in Cristina Ali Farah’s ‘A Dhow Crosses the Sea’.” Postcolonial Text. Double Special Issue: Ecological Solidarities across Post/Colonial Worlds. Ed. Jennifer Leetsch. 2024. 19:1&2. 1–24.

“Introduction: Disturbing the Sedimentations of Nineteenth-Century Environments.” With Stefanie John. Anglia: Journal of English Philology. Special Issue: Ecocritical Perspectives on the Long Nineteenth Century: Form, Materiality, Politics. Eds. Stefanie John and Jennifer Leetsch. 2024. 142:1. 1–10.

“From Instagram Poetry to Autofictional Memoir and Back Again: Experimental Black Life Writing in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s Work.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Special Issue: Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing. Eds. Elisabeth Bekers, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Helen Cousins. 2022. 41:2, 301–326.

“Mary Seacole’s Plant Matter(s): Vegetal Entanglements of the Black Atlantic in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.” EJES: The European Journal of English Studies. Special Issue: Victorian Materialisms. Eds. Ursula Kluwick and Ariane de Waal. 2022. 26:1, 42–65.

“Playing with Saris: Material and Affective Unfoldings in Shailja Patel’s Migritude”. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Special Issue: Visualizing Violence. Eds. Hella Cohen and Sreyoshi Sarkar. 2021. 23:5, 691–711.

“Of Suitcases and Gunny Sacks: The Poetics of Travel in M. G. Vassanji and Shailja Patel”. Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium. Special Issue: Postcolonial Narrations. 2019. 4:1, 60–77.

“Ocean Imaginaries in Warsan Shire’s Afro-Diasporic Poetry”. Journal of the African Literature Association. Special Issue: The Environments of African Literature. Ed. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi. 2019. 13:1, 80–95.

“Love, Limb-Loosener: Encounters in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah”. Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Special Issue: Critical Love Studies. Eds. Amy Burge and Michael Gratzke. 2017. 6, 1–16.

Book Chapters

“Mary Prince’s Slave Narrative and its Legal (After)Life: The Interplay of Gender, Law and Literature in The History of Mary Prince.” Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature. Eds. Hanna Luise Kroll, Laura Schmitz-Justen, Laura Christin Wittmann and Laura Anina Zander. Berlin: De Gruyter. Forthcoming 2025.

“Between Home and Away: Contemporary Black British Poetry.” The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature. Eds. Lokangaka Losambe and Tanure Ojaide. London/New York: Routledge. 2024.

“Introduction: Configurations of Migration.” Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 1–13.

“Imagining Migration In-Between: A Conversation with Charl Landvreugd.” With Heike Raphael-Hernandez. Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 17–26.

“Walking the Land: Theatre, Landscape and Britain’s Migratory Past in Black Men Walking.” Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 197–218.

“Concluding Remarks: (Strange) Migratory Encounters.” Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media. Eds. Jennifer Leetsch, Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 219–224.

“Loneliness and Contested Communities in Mary Prince’s Slave Narrative The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831).” The Routledge History of Loneliness. Eds. Katie Barclay, Elaine Chalus and Deborah Simonton. London/New York: Routledge. 2023. 238–252.

“Translocations of Desire: Urban Topographies of Love in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah”. Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture. Spatial Practices, Volume: 35. Eds. Ágnes Györke and Imola Bülgözdi. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi. 2020. 181–198.

“Opening Homes, Opening Worlds: African European Spatial Interventions in Helen Oyeyemi’s Fiction”. Locating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations. Eds. Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu and Mark Stein. London/New York: Routledge. 2019. 153–164.

“Pop & Porno: Gegen-Körper, Gegen-Blicke”. Kulturen der Pornografie: Annäherungen an ein Massenphänomen. Eds. Daniel Schulze and Andrea Stiebritz. WVT: Trier. 2016. 135–146.