Publikationen

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“From Instapoetry to Autofictional Memoir: Intermedial Self-Writings in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s Works.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Special Issue: Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing. Eds. Elisabeth Bekers, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Helen Cousins. Submitted/Under Review.

“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. Submitted/Under Review.

“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. Eds. Silvia Anastasijevic, Hanna Teichler, and Magdalena Pfalzgraf. 4:1, 60–77. ISSN 2581-7361. http://www.kairostext.in/index.php/kairostext/article/view/64

“Ocean Imageries 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. DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2019.1594910

“Love, Limb-Loosener: Encounters in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah”. Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Vol. 6. Special Issue: Critical Love Studies. Eds. Amy Burge and Michael Gratzke. 2017. 1–16. http://jprstudies.org/2017/04/love-limb-loosener-encounters-in-chimamanda-adichies-americanahby-jennifer-leetsch/

Book Chapters

Encyclopaedia Entries

“Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi”. Leetsch J., entry in The Literary Encyclopaedia. Black British Writing 1945-Contemporary. Ed. Jenni Ramone. 14 May 2019. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16701

“Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi”. Leetsch J., entry in The Literary Encyclopaedia. Black British Writing 1945-Contemporary. Ed. Jenni Ramone. 03 September 2019. Invited and Commissioned.https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35618 

Other Publications

“Zappelräume: Über Sara Ahmed”. MHM. Magazin der Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften München. Vol. 13. Intimität und Distanz. Eds. Nicole Scherl et.al. MHM-Redaktion V.I.S.D.P.: Munich. With illustrations by Veruschka Glatzeder. 2015. 58-61.

“Eros, In-Between: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah”. [kon] Paper. Magazin für Literatur & Kultur. Vol. 1. Eds. Lucas Dörre and Pia Lobodzinski. LMU Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft: Munich. Selbstverlag. 2015. Link: https://kon-paper.com/ausgaben/kon-paper-no-1-sex/.

“’Punctuation’s Contradictory Performances’: Affective Relations in Contemporary Black British Poetry.” Postcolonial Narrations: Postcolonial Punctuation/s – Demarcations / Interventions / Transgressions. WWU Münster (Germany). 10/2019. Invited Keynote.
 
“From Insta-Poetry to Auto-Fictional Memoir: Intermedial Self-Writings in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s Works.” PG CWWN 7th Biennial Conference. New Configurations of Contemporary Women’s Writing. Hull (UK). 09/2019.
 
“Oceanic Refugee Imaginaries in Warsan Shire’s Poetry.” GAPS (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien). Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water. Bremen (Germany). 05/2019.
 
“Travelling Text: Shailja Patel’s Migritude.” Postcolonial Narrations: Moving Centers & Traveling Cultures. Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany). 10/2018.
 
“Helen Oyeyemi: Queer (Be)longings Elsewhere”. “On Whose Terms? Ten Years On...” in Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts. Goldsmiths University, London (UK). 03/2018.
 
“‘She was splintered wood and sea water’: Transoceanic Geocorpographies in Warsan Shire’s Poetry.” International Workshop: "Africa in the Making of Modernity: Reconsidering the Black Atlantic" (Organizer: Dr. Sarah Fekadu-Uthoff). Centre for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich (Germany). 11/2017. Invited.
 
“’Her body is a flooding home’: Transnational Trajectories in Warsan Shire.” ALA (African Literature Association) Annual Conference. Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies. Yale University, New Haven (US). 06/2017.
 
“Dream Cities: Affective Spatiality in Zadie Smith’s North London Writings.” 16th Triennial EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Conference. Performing the Urban: Embodiments, Inventories, Rhythms. Oviedo (Spain). 04/2017.
 
“Theoretische Einführung: Mary & Max.” Andersein – Behinderung im Film. Institut für Geschichte der Medizin in Kooperation mit dem Programmkino Central. Würzburg (Germany). 10/2016. Invited.
 
“Global Masculinities in the Postcolonial Metropolis: The Construction of Intimacy in Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith.” ICAS: Metamorphoses of the Political (Workshop “Relating Gender”) New Delhi (India). 10/2016. Invited.
 
“Dis/Placed: Virtual Diasporas.” Diasporas – 8th Global Meeting. Mansfield College, Oxford (UK). 07/2016.
 
 “African (Diasporic) Women Writers, Filmmakers, and Artists.” Together with Dr. Heike Raphael-Hernandez. BRIAS (Bavarian Research Institute of African Studies) Symposium: Afrika-Forschung in Bayern. Würzburg (Germany). 07/2016. Invited.
 
“Strolling through the City: Postcolonial Identities on Youtube.” GAPS (Gesellschaft für Anglo-phone Postkoloniale Studien). The Postcolonial and the Material. Augsburg (Germany). 05/2016.
 
“Love, Between the Lines: Diasporic Wiggle Spaces in Helen Oyeyemi.” Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe V. WWU Münster (Germany). 09/2015.
 
“Pop und Porno: Wider den weißen männlichen Blick – Von Beyoncé bis Viktoria Modesta.” Ringvorlesung: Kulturen der Pornographie. Würzburg (Germany). 07/2015.
 
“Roots and Routes in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.” Igbo Womanhood, Womanbeing and Personhood. SOAS, University of London (UK). 04/2015.

Organisation of the international, interdisciplinary conference “Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives.” Together with Miriam Wallraven (Würzburg) and Frederike Middelhoff (Hamburg). Funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) and Universitätsbund Würzburg e.V. University of Würzburg, 2020.

Assistant Organiser, to Prof. Dr. Isabel Karremann (University of Würzburg) and Prof. Saugata Bhaduri (JNU, New Delhi): International Summer School "Africa in a Globalized World". Funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the UGC (University Grants Commission) within the IGP (Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education) initiative. University of Würzburg, 2018.

Co-Organiser, with Julien Bobineau, Julius Goldmann, and Gabriella Lambrecht (University of Würzburg): International and Interdisciplinary Summer School "The Self and the Other: Afro-Diasporic Literatures" ("Eigenheit und Fremdheit: Literaturen der afrikanischen Diaspora im Spannungsfeld von Migration, Identität und kolonialen Stereotypen"). Funded by the DRV (Deutscher Romanistenverband) and Universitätsbund Würzburg e.V. University of Würzburg, 2017. Link

Assistant Organiser, to Prof. Dr. Isabel Karremann (University of Würzburg) and Prof. Saugata Bhaduri (JNU, New Delhi): International Winter School "Literature in a Globalized World". Funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the UGC (University Grants Commission) within the IGP (Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education) initiative. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India), 2017.