Mag. Barbara Gföllner
Barbara Gföllner
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Gföllner, B., & Ganser-Blumenau, A. (2024). Astropelagic Afrofuturism: Outer Space Im/mobilities in Canisia Lubrin’s ‘Voodoo Hypothesis’. Manuscript submitted for publication. In D. Atanasova, R. Bund, D. Buschmann, R. Diniega, J. Donat, B. Gföllner, & N. Kopf (Eds.), Entangled Future Im/Mobilities Transcript Verlag.


Kopf, N., Gföllner, B., Donat, J., Diniega, R., Buschmann, D., Bund, R., & Atanasova, D. (Accepted/In press). Introduction. Entangled Future Im/mobilities. In Entangled Future Im/Mobilities. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies



Ganser-Blumenau, A., Gföllner, B., Pisarz-Ramirez, G., & Wöll, S. (Eds.) (2023). Archipelagic Spaces and Im/mobilities.









An Otherwise of Movement

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

17 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Decontinentalizing the US? Archipelagic Poetics of Mobility in Contemporary Caribbean Poetry

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

21 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Symposium Mobile Cultures and Societies: A Decade of Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

6 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Listening and Breathing across Interspecies Ancestries: Teaching more-than-human Relations in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ 'Dub: Finding Ceremony'

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

8 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ahead of time and outside of it: The Afrodiasporic poem as a marker of time in Dionne Brand and Canisia Lubrin

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

29 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Emigrating Words, Cascading Rhythms: Insurgent Geopoetics and Mobilities in Kaie Kellough’s 'Magnetic Equator'

Barbara Gföllner (Invited speaker)

14 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Abyssal Movement in Caribbean Literature

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

19 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Possibilities of an Otherwise: Poetics of the Archipelago in Contemporary Caribbean Poetry

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

13 Oct 202215 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Exaqua: M. NourbeSe Philip's 'Zong!' as Archipelagic Memory

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

3 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“Survivor stories begin to meld together”: Ecopoetics of the Archipelago in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

17 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


An Ocean Drama: Poetics of Mobility in Canisia Lubrin’s 'The Dyzgraphxst'

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

13 Jan 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Beyond the Abyss: Reading Un/Dead Mobility Transformations through the Feejee Mermaid and NourbeSe M. Philip’s Zong!

Romana Bund (Speaker) & Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

7 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Conquest or Curiosity? Colonial and Outer Space Mobilities in Canisia Lubrin's "Voodoo Hypothesis"

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

30 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reading the 'French archipelago' through Nicole Cage-Florentiny’s 'D’îles je suis'

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

2 Sep 20214 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“All the Troubled Things that Breach the Waters”: Tracing Crises through the Oceanic in Canisia Lubrin’s 'The Dyzgraphxst'

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

15 Aug 202121 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"'Near Enough to Smell and Far Enough to Desire': Archipelagoes of Desire in Canisia Lubrin’s 'Voodoo Hypothesis' and Dionne Brand’s 'In Another Place, Not Here'"

Sigrid Thomsen (Speaker) & Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

16 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“this piece / is a cargo harried across a world”: Mobility and Borders in Kaie Kellough’s 'Magnetic Equator'

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

19 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Limiting and Liberating Forms of Im/Mobility in Staceyann Chin's 'Crossfire'

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

15 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mobilizing Vulnerability as a Form of Resistance in the Light of Current Black Lives Matter Protests

Barbara Gföllner (Speaker)

31 Oct 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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