Aylin Dilek Walder
@aylinwalder.bsky.social
#firstgen 📍Braunschweig / Cologne
PhD on the #fantastic dawn of #affinity 💫 #belonging 🌈 #eco 🌿 #speculativefiction 🛸
also posting for @gffantastik 🦄
https://tinyurl.com/adwalder
PhD on the #fantastic dawn of #affinity 💫 #belonging 🌈 #eco 🌿 #speculativefiction 🛸
also posting for @gffantastik 🦄
https://tinyurl.com/adwalder
exciting news 🎉 thank you for including my paper on #NKJemisin in this amazing interdisciplinary volume 📚 I’m really grateful to you and Zeynep for your encouraging words along the way - your care and dedication made it such a pleasure working with you both 🍀
thank you! 💫
thank you! 💫
Very happy to see this out in the world! A deeply collaborative attempt at thinking ecological dependencies from/across a variety of disciplines. Thank you @dependencybonn.de for providing us with the space + resources to develop this. Check the book out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
exciting news 🎉 thank you for including my paper on #NKJemisin in this amazing interdisciplinary volume 📚 I’m really grateful to you and Zeynep for your encouraging words along the way - your care and dedication made it such a pleasure working with you both 🍀
thank you! 💫
thank you! 💫
best way to end the week: my abstract for @easlce.bsky.social conference on Nonhuman Resistance was accepted 🐋✨ so excited to present on what I call #affinity studies and material identity in dark eco SFF 🌿 1/2
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
best way to end the week: my abstract for @easlce.bsky.social conference on Nonhuman Resistance was accepted 🐋✨ so excited to present on what I call #affinity studies and material identity in dark eco SFF 🌿 1/2
As #Anglistiktag2025 comes to a close, an era of the journal ends with the editorial office heading to Graz for a fresh start 🗞️
it’s been a pleasure working with @victoriaherche.bsky.social and @gianlucacalio.bsky.social
in the past ☀️ all the best to the new editorship @juliahoydis.bsky.social 🍀
it’s been a pleasure working with @victoriaherche.bsky.social and @gianlucacalio.bsky.social
in the past ☀️ all the best to the new editorship @juliahoydis.bsky.social 🍀
Celebration of the Journal "Anglistik" – Wechsel der Herausgeberschaft! Mit einer Präsentation zur Geschichte der Zeitschrift findet heute im Rahmen des Anglistiktages 2025 an der @unidue.bsky.social die Übergabe der Herausgeberschaft von Heinz Antor (Köln) an Julia Hoydis (Graz) statt. #anglistik
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
As #Anglistiktag2025 comes to a close, an era of the journal ends with the editorial office heading to Graz for a fresh start 🗞️
it’s been a pleasure working with @victoriaherche.bsky.social and @gianlucacalio.bsky.social
in the past ☀️ all the best to the new editorship @juliahoydis.bsky.social 🍀
it’s been a pleasure working with @victoriaherche.bsky.social and @gianlucacalio.bsky.social
in the past ☀️ all the best to the new editorship @juliahoydis.bsky.social 🍀
back home from #GfF25 with an enjoyable keynote by @forgottencreatures.bsky.social on the history of beastiaries 🐲🦄 it’s been fun delving into the realm of creatures & animals again 🪼 also quite happy with the great feedback on my PhD project & talk about The Devourers @indrapramitdas.bsky.social 🐾💫
August 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
back home from #GfF25 with an enjoyable keynote by @forgottencreatures.bsky.social on the history of beastiaries 🐲🦄 it’s been fun delving into the realm of creatures & animals again 🪼 also quite happy with the great feedback on my PhD project & talk about The Devourers @indrapramitdas.bsky.social 🐾💫
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The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....
July 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....
for my Cologne peeps (and anyone willing to travel a little) 🍃
join Ahmet from the @ucy1.bsky.social and me to discuss #ElifShafak and what it means to be human 🌈🎓 a key question also guiding my own research 💫 #PhDSky #envhum
join Ahmet from the @ucy1.bsky.social and me to discuss #ElifShafak and what it means to be human 🌈🎓 a key question also guiding my own research 💫 #PhDSky #envhum
June 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
for my Cologne peeps (and anyone willing to travel a little) 🍃
join Ahmet from the @ucy1.bsky.social and me to discuss #ElifShafak and what it means to be human 🌈🎓 a key question also guiding my own research 💫 #PhDSky #envhum
join Ahmet from the @ucy1.bsky.social and me to discuss #ElifShafak and what it means to be human 🌈🎓 a key question also guiding my own research 💫 #PhDSky #envhum
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Reminder:
We would love to see you join us at this year's Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA 4): Embodied Spirits!
The deadline to submit paper proposals, panel proposals, and creative proposals is June 30, 2025. Please visit our VICFA page for more details.
We would love to see you join us at this year's Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA 4): Embodied Spirits!
The deadline to submit paper proposals, panel proposals, and creative proposals is June 30, 2025. Please visit our VICFA page for more details.
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - The VICFA
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June 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Reminder:
We would love to see you join us at this year's Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA 4): Embodied Spirits!
The deadline to submit paper proposals, panel proposals, and creative proposals is June 30, 2025. Please visit our VICFA page for more details.
We would love to see you join us at this year's Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA 4): Embodied Spirits!
The deadline to submit paper proposals, panel proposals, and creative proposals is June 30, 2025. Please visit our VICFA page for more details.
attended my first #DGfA25 ✨ fantastic community ~ inspiring keynotes ~ insightful panels ~ great coffee chats ✨ thanks to @danstein2025.bsky.social and his team for making it such a wonderful experience ✨
June 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
attended my first #DGfA25 ✨ fantastic community ~ inspiring keynotes ~ insightful panels ~ great coffee chats ✨ thanks to @danstein2025.bsky.social and his team for making it such a wonderful experience ✨
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The second day of this year's annual conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS) in Siegen started gloriously with an amazingly rich & entertaining talk on 19th-century epistolary culture & queer intimacy by @katrinhorn.bsky.social. #AmericanStudies #QueerStudies #DGfA2025
June 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The second day of this year's annual conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS) in Siegen started gloriously with an amazingly rich & entertaining talk on 19th-century epistolary culture & queer intimacy by @katrinhorn.bsky.social. #AmericanStudies #QueerStudies #DGfA2025
“There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true it conjures spirits from the past and future.” 🎶
#Sinners cinematic exploration of temporality is so captivating it conjures its own affective spirits 👀
#Sinners cinematic exploration of temporality is so captivating it conjures its own affective spirits 👀
May 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true it conjures spirits from the past and future.” 🎶
#Sinners cinematic exploration of temporality is so captivating it conjures its own affective spirits 👀
#Sinners cinematic exploration of temporality is so captivating it conjures its own affective spirits 👀
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Lost in the world of medical drama and nearly done with my talk for our BritCult workshop on illness and health next week. Super excited to see and meet everyone! 🩺🏥⚕️💊 More info here: www.britcult.de/category/wok...
April 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Lost in the world of medical drama and nearly done with my talk for our BritCult workshop on illness and health next week. Super excited to see and meet everyone! 🩺🏥⚕️💊 More info here: www.britcult.de/category/wok...
switching from one great team to another is a total emotional rollercoaster🎢 I’m so grateful for all I learned from @judithrauscher.bsky.social @jpitettiheil.bsky.social @victoriaherche.bsky.social @sarahbusch.bsky.social❣️and also so touched by the heartwarming welcome @tubraunschweig.bsky.social 💫
April 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
switching from one great team to another is a total emotional rollercoaster🎢 I’m so grateful for all I learned from @judithrauscher.bsky.social @jpitettiheil.bsky.social @victoriaherche.bsky.social @sarahbusch.bsky.social❣️and also so touched by the heartwarming welcome @tubraunschweig.bsky.social 💫
Excited to join this workshop on illness and health @uni-hamburg.de 🏥 while also taking some time to explore the city during its 836th Port Anniversary 🎉
@natalieroxburgh.bsky.social and I are looking forward to hosting BritCult's 18th workshop for PhD candidates and postdocs on 9-10 May 2025 @uni-hamburg.de. This year's topic is "Assessing Illness and Health through Cultural Studies". You can find the programme here: www.britcult.de/wp-content/u...
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Excited to join this workshop on illness and health @uni-hamburg.de 🏥 while also taking some time to explore the city during its 836th Port Anniversary 🎉
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Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
Examines how authors of color, in writing against white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy narratives, counteract Christian and colonial tropes and offer alternate versions of morality, race, gender, and ...
ohiostatepress.org
February 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Former Carson Fellow Malcom Ferdinand will deliver an online lecture on January 21st! #envhum
On 21 January, 6pm CET, the collective behind 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦: 𝘈 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 will host this online lecture with Malcom Ferdinand. Save the link: www.youtube.com/@RadicalEnvi...
#envhum
#envhum
January 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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I had the best time these the 2 days at the conference "Ecoterrorism in Anglophone Media." I was so proud of my student assistant, Una, who gave a great talk & loved that several Cologne students came to support her & another student who presented. Thank you, Burak & Sascha, for this amazing event!
December 14, 2024 at 12:23 AM
I had the best time these the 2 days at the conference "Ecoterrorism in Anglophone Media." I was so proud of my student assistant, Una, who gave a great talk & loved that several Cologne students came to support her & another student who presented. Thank you, Burak & Sascha, for this amazing event!
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Am 22. November veranstaltet das DFG-Netzwerk „Energie & Literatur“ online den Workshop „Energy & Gender“. Herzliche Einladung! Weitere Informationen & Zugangsinformationen unter: energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/ @victoriaherche.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social @juliaditter.bsky.social
October 12, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Am 22. November veranstaltet das DFG-Netzwerk „Energie & Literatur“ online den Workshop „Energy & Gender“. Herzliche Einladung! Weitere Informationen & Zugangsinformationen unter: energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/ @victoriaherche.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social @juliaditter.bsky.social
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Always wanted to create a more diverse and safer leaning environment for people? Come to our free workshop "Queering the Classroom" @UniCologne Oct 4-5 that uses theatre to learn about equality! 🎭🌈
For more info and programme: anglistik1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/abteilungen-...
For more info and programme: anglistik1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/abteilungen-...
September 16, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Always wanted to create a more diverse and safer leaning environment for people? Come to our free workshop "Queering the Classroom" @UniCologne Oct 4-5 that uses theatre to learn about equality! 🎭🌈
For more info and programme: anglistik1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/abteilungen-...
For more info and programme: anglistik1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/abteilungen-...
Just wrapped up an incredible time at the #FantasticClimates conference 🌍 Thanks to the incredible organisers and @anotherdramakid.bsky.social for the opportunity to dive into #EcoGothic themes in #GameofThrones ❄️ who knew Westeros had so much to teach us about our own climate challenges? 🩵
September 8, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Just wrapped up an incredible time at the #FantasticClimates conference 🌍 Thanks to the incredible organisers and @anotherdramakid.bsky.social for the opportunity to dive into #EcoGothic themes in #GameofThrones ❄️ who knew Westeros had so much to teach us about our own climate challenges? 🩵
back from the interdisciplinary #conference on Communicating #Climate Hope at the Tilburg University 🌿 it’s been a pleasure to talk about #fantastic stories of climate #hope and ideas on reconciliation with Nature 🌻
August 17, 2024 at 11:38 AM
back from the interdisciplinary #conference on Communicating #Climate Hope at the Tilburg University 🌿 it’s been a pleasure to talk about #fantastic stories of climate #hope and ideas on reconciliation with Nature 🌻
back from the fabulous @sfrareview.bsky.social conference @ Tartu 🚀 speculating with old and newfound friends has truly been a pleasure 🔮
discussions on #materialism 🧬 #cofuturism ✨ #science 🔬 and #games filled me with inspiration for my journey to unknown terrains 🪐
discussions on #materialism 🧬 #cofuturism ✨ #science 🔬 and #games filled me with inspiration for my journey to unknown terrains 🪐
May 12, 2024 at 10:14 AM
back from the fabulous @sfrareview.bsky.social conference @ Tartu 🚀 speculating with old and newfound friends has truly been a pleasure 🔮
discussions on #materialism 🧬 #cofuturism ✨ #science 🔬 and #games filled me with inspiration for my journey to unknown terrains 🪐
discussions on #materialism 🧬 #cofuturism ✨ #science 🔬 and #games filled me with inspiration for my journey to unknown terrains 🪐