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[re]frame is an online academic space that aims to amplify and foster early career scholarship as well as provide space for academic dialogue in postcolonial studies and related fields of study. Our academic blog is committed to investigating and problematising the complexities of forms of colonial, anticolonial, and decolonial patterns, phenomena, and infrastructures, as well as how they manifest in literary and cultural studies. Formed under the aegis of the GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies), [re]frame encourages investigations of academia and academic practices, such as the colonial legacies of universities and the coloniality of knowledge systems that inform epistemologies. We envision [re]frame as an inter-disciplinary space that will function as part field diary, part methodology notebook while also sparking new ways of seeing.
For our inauguration, we warmly invite postgraduate and early career scholars to send in original contributions on the subjects of literary and cultural studies with a focus on postcolonial/anticolonial/decolonial inquiry as well as related fields and approaches. Submissions should support our aims and can be published under one of the following categories
Publication Categories
Short essays (max. 1500 words)
Essays should address and analyse literary and cultural studies topics, or provide scholarly evaluations of current socio-political issues in the aforementioned fields and approaches.
Reviews (600-1000 words)
Reviews can include reading impressions and reflections of academic and/or (non)fiction books, comics, graphic novels, poetry, performance art, visual art, museum exhibits and other formats relating to our main fields of inquiry.
Academic Chatter (500-600 words)
This can include reflections and musings on academic struggles and joys, teaching methods and philosophies as well as reviews of academic conferences or workshops.
We are also happy to consider pitches that propose alternative forms.
Potential Topics:
- Intersections of race, gender, and class in postcolonial contexts
- Indigenous studies and issues of sovereignty
- Diaspora and migration studies
- Ecocritical entanglements
- Material cultures and their networks
- Critical inquiries into popular culture
- Current trends in post-, anti-, and decolonial contexts
- Single or multiple-work analyses of the related topics
- …
In the future, we plan to publish calls for themed posts, so keep an eye out.
How to Submit:
General submissions outside of themed CfPs can be made at any time.
If you want to submit a proposal for a post, please send an email with the subject line “Reframe Pitch” to reframe@g-a-p-s.net including:
- a 300-word proposal summarizing your submission, defining its topicality, and noting the chosen category of publication
- a short author bio
- a statement of your schedule (i.e. when you can submit the full article)
We aim to respond within two weeks. If you don’t hear from us feel free to send a follow-up email.
At the moment, we can only accept submissions in English but we hope to be able to provide editing for other languages in the future. All submissions will undergo an editing process which includes comments, suggestions and basic copy-editing.
Unfortunately, we are unable to pay authors.
Don’t hesitate to e-mail us at in case you have any questions. We hope that you will consider publishing with us and look forward to your thought-provoking contributions!
Please be aware that the opinions of the authors do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors of the blog.