Caroline Kögler and Madhu Krishnan talked about:

Writing and Publishing Postcolonial Literatures: Marginalised Aesthetics?

Caroline Kögler is Junior-Professor for English Philology and Global Literature and Its Media with a focus on Gender Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market (Routledge, 2018 and 2023) and the co-author of Are Books Still 'Different'? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In addition to her research on postcolonial studies and on the intersections of literature and economics, she has published widely on Queer and Gender Studies, Citizenship and Migration Studies, Black British Literature, Victorianism and Neo-Victorianism, and digital literature.

Madhu Krishnan is Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of three books: Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (2018, James Currey), and Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (2018, Cambridge University Press). She is the PI on the project funded by an ERC starting grant, "Literary Activism in sub-Saharan Africa: Commons, Publics and Networks of Practice."