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Mag. Barbara Gföllner
Barbara Gföllner
T: +43-1-4277-42479
Summer term 2026
123043 PS PS Literary Studies - Queer Caribbean Literature
Summer term 2025
123044 PS PS Literary Studies - Canadian Diasporic Literatures
Gföllner, B. (2025). Naila Keleta-Mae. Performing Female Blackness. Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 75, 172-174. Article 75.
Atanasova, D., Bund, R., Buschmann, D., Diniega, R., Donat, J., Gföllner, B., & Kopf, N. (2024). Entangled Future Im/mobilities. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839473801-002
Kopf, N., Gföllner, B., Donat, J., Diniega, R., Buschmann, D., Bund, R., & Atanasova, D. (2024). Introduction. Entangled Future Im/mobilities. In Entangled Future Im/Mobilities. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies
Gföllner, B. (2024). Toward a poetics of the abyss: Suspending wor(l)ds. Dialogues in Human Geography . https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206241240220
Gföllner, B. (2023). The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom by Rinaldo Walcott (review). University of Toronto Quarterly: a Canadian journal of the humanities, 92(3), 372-373. Article 3.
Gföllner, B. (2023). 'We Are Still Here Holding Fast': Stillness in the Wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges' 'Epiphaneia'. Island Studies Journal, 18(1), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.411
Ganser-Blumenau, A., Gföllner, B., Pisarz-Ramirez, G., & Wöll, S. (Eds.) (2023). Archipelagic Spaces and Im/mobilities.
Ganser, A., Gföllner, B., Pisarz-Ramirez, G., & Wöll, S. (2023). Introduction: Conceptualizing Archipelagic Mobilities. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 14(1), 75-92. https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160878
Gföllner, B., & Thomsen, S. (2023). "Near enough to smell and far enough to desire”: Archipelagos of Desire in Canisia Lubrin’s 'Voodoo Hypothesis' and Dionne Brand’s 'In Another Place, Not Here'. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 14(1), 249-271. https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160839
Gföllner, B. (2023). Rinaldo Walcott. The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom. University of Toronto Quarterly: a Canadian journal of the humanities, 92(3), 372-373.
Gföllner, B., & Pugh, J. (2023). The Americas: A Relational or Abyssal Geography? An Interview, Barbara Gfoellner and Jonathan Pugh. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 14(1), 303-329. https://doi.org/10.5070/t814161198
Gföllner, B. (2022). 'It sounds like erasure': Mobility, Vulnerability and Queer Coolitude Poetics in Rajiv Mohabir's 'The Taxidermist's Cut'. Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS), 4(1), 89-108. https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v4i1.157
Gföllner, B. (2022). 'The World Called Him a Thug': Police Brutality and the Perception of the Black Body in Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give. Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS), 2(1), 7-27. https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v2i1.23
Englert, B., Thomsen, S., & Gföllner, B. (Eds.) (2021). Cultural Mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003152248/cultural-mobilities-africa-caribbean-birgit-englert-barbara-gf%C3%B6llner-sigrid-thomsen
Thomsen, S., Gföllner, B., & Englert, B. (2021). Cultural Mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean: Introduction. In B. Englert, S. Thomsen, & B. Gföllner (Eds.), Cultural Mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean (pp. 1-13). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003152248/cultural-mobilities-africa-caribbean-birgit-englert-barbara-gf%C3%B6llner-sigrid-thomsen

Archipelagic Poetics of Mobility in Caribbean Poetry

Gföllner, B. (Invited speaker)

15 Dec 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Suspending Wor(l)ds: Abyssal Poetics in Caribbean Poetry

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

10 Oct 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Breath, Dreams, Resistance: Aspiration as Wake Work in Black Queer Writing and Practice

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

5 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

An Otherwise of Movement

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

17 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

21 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

6 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

8 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

29 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Invited speaker)

14 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Abyssal Movement in Caribbean Literature

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

19 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

13 Oct 2022 → 15 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

3 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

17 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

13 Jan 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Bund, R. (Speaker) & Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

7 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

30 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

2 Sept 2021 → 4 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

15 Aug 2021 → 21 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science 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'"

Thomsen, S. (Speaker) & Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

16 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

19 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

15 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Gföllner, B. (Speaker)

31 Oct 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Department of English and American Studies

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T: +43-1-4277-42479

barbara.gfoellner@univie.ac.at