Isabella Kalte

About me: Isabella Kalte is a doctoral candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC). She studied in Frankfurt, Dresden and Potsdam. She works as a research assistant at the GCSC and coordinates the publications at the centre for which she is responsible for the publication series and advises PhD candidates in regard of publishing opportunities and printing costs. She is a member of the Editorial Team of the Open Access journal On_Culture and executive editor of the review journal KULT_online.

Dissertation project: "Challenging Respectability: Narrative Strategies of Negotiating Caribbean Femininities and Resistance in Post-millennial Anglo-Caribbean Genre Fiction"

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ansgar Nünning (JLU)

Contact

International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Otto-Behaghel-Str. 12
35394 Giessen
Germany

Raum 219
E-Mail: isabella.kalte
Tel.: +49 (0) 641 99 300 42

Publications

Kalte, Isabella. 2023. “Understanding and Preventing Gender-Based Violence in the Anglophone Caribbean”. KULT_online, no. 67 (May). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1375.
Kalte, Isabella, and Fiona Quast. 2023. “Conference Report on ‘Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds’”. KULT_online, no. 67 (May). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1376.
Kalte, Isabella. 2023. “Editorial”. KULT_online, no. 67 (May). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1396.
The Editorial Team. "Editorial: Codes: Power and Subversion." On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 14 (2022). https://doi.org/10.22029/oc.2022.1343.
Kalte, Isabella. 2022. “Editorial”. KULT_online, no. 66 (November). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2022.1340.
Kalte, Isabella. 2022. “Turning to the Self: Self-Regard and Disorderly Being As Strategies of Survival”. KULT_online, no. 65 (May). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2022.1295.
Kalte, Isabella. 2022. “Editorial”. KULT_online, no. 65 (May). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2022.1296.
The Editorial Team. “Editorial: Ambiguity: Conditions, Potentials, Limits.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.22029/oc.2021.1252.
Kalte, Isabella. 2021. “Editorial”. KULT_online, no. 64 (December). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2021.1260.

Lectures

"Forms of Unruly Participation: Dissenting to Legacies of Colonialism in Caribbean Feminist Social Media Movements." September 30, 2022, Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds, Postgraduate Conference at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, September 29–October 1, 2022, Germany.

"Imagining the Other Side: Caribbean Neo-slave Narratives as Heterotopic History". June 14, 2023, Possible Worlds: Environment, Community, Heterotopia, The Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Sienna.

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