Anglophone Literatures in a Global Environment

The Chair of Anglophone Literatures in a Global Environment represents the literary cultures of English-speaking world outside of Britain and North America. This vast cultural geography includes Anglophone literatures of Australasia and the Asia-Pacific region, the African continent, the Indian Ocean, and the Caribbean. It also considers the many waves of diasporic writing in English from these areas. This wonderfully rich archive of writing informs a variety of theoretical and methodological taxonomies, such as national and world literatures, postcolonial inquiry, and Indigenous thought.

Our seminars aim to convey the sheer geographical expanse and the diversity of cultural identities in the Global South. Each seminar follows a distinct concept by tracing it in literary works from a wide range of genres and historical periods.

See below for a list of seminars offered so far:

Winter Semester 2025/2026

• Shakespeare: The Bard at the Border
• Botanical Imaginaries: Writing Plants Across Genres

Summer Semester 2025

• Pacific Literatures in Context
• Poetic of Pollutions: Literature and Environmental Waste 

Winter Semester 2024/2025

• Sovereign Literatures: Writing Global Indigeneity
• The Island and the Novel