Postcolonial Collective

Poco Collective LogoUGA’s Postcolonial Collective is a cross-departmental group of faculty and graduate students whose work intersects with the broad field of postcolonial studies. Hailing primarily from the English and Comparative Literature departments, our primary purpose is to exchange ideas and generate conversations about current trends in the field, while also creating connections with other academic units. 

In addition to our coffee hours for faculty and graduate students, we organize several events per year, usually in the form of lectures by visiting speakers, luncheons with scholars, and paper workshops. We are grateful for the generous contributions of the UGA Department of English, the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

The best way to keep up to date with our events is to join our dedicated listserv. Please contact Dr. Alexander Fyfe (Alexander.Fyfe@uga.edu) if you would like to be added.

Upcoming Events 

  • James Mulholland, Professor of English and Associate Dean at North Carolina State University will give a public lecture on Thursday, November 13

Past Events

  • Joseph Slaughter, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University “Sentimental Adjustment Programs: Empathy as the Emotional Style of Neoliberalism” in collaboration with the Department of English (February 20, 2025)
  • Moshtari Hilal, artist talk, in collaboration with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies ( March 19, 2025).
  • Brett Sterling, Professor of German, University of Arkansas, March 20, 2025 (funded by SEC)
  • Mark Minett, Professor of Film, University of South Carolina, April 10, 2025 (funded by SEC)
  • Dr. Evren Kutlay, Professor of Music, “European Musicians of the Ottoman Empire” in collaboration with the School of Music (October 2, 2024)
  • Dr. Stephanie DeGooyer, Associate Professor of English, “The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Asylum” in collaboration with the Colloquium in 18th and 19th Century British Literature (November 14, 2024)
  • Zahid R. Chaudhary, Associate Professor of English at Princeton University visited UGA to discuss the art of Hardeep Pandhal in a talk entitled “Miscegenation Nation,” or the Dream Logics of Racial History in Hardeep Pandhal’s Art” (March 27, 2024)
  • Matthew Omelsky (University of Rochester) lectured on "Time, Fugitivity, and Global Black Aesthetics” and celebrated the publication of his new book, Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond (April 9, 2024)
  • Jeff Clapp visited from the Education University of Hong Kong to discuss contemporary American literature and explore the relationship between authors and characters in a talk titled “Friendly Strangers and Strange Friends: Writing Relationality Now” (April 18, 2024)
  • Qiana Whitted, Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, gave a lecture on Orrin C. Evans’s 1947 comic book, All-Negro Comics. (October 30, 2023)
  • The Collective supported the Creative Writing Program to bring Bhakti Shringarpure to deliver a talk entitled “Publishing at a Crossroads: Notes on the "D" word” (November 2, 2023)
  • Collaborating with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the Collective co-sponsored Brett Sterling from the University of Arkansas, who delivered a lecture titled “Holocaust Testimony in Word and Image: The Comics Anthology But I Live” (November 8, 2023)
  • Nathan Suhr-Systma, Associate Professor of English, Emory: "Modernism Without Modernity?: African Letters and Media From Things Fall Apart to Kintu." November 9, 2022
  • Anne W. Gulick, Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina: "Surviving the Degree: Formal and Political Provocations in African Campus Fiction." October 30, 2022. 
Sidebar:

Members of the Postcolonial Collective met on September 18, 2025