Carmijn Gerritsen

Carmijn Gerritsen is an interdisciplinary Research Master’s student in Literary Studies at Radboud University in Nijmegen, whose current research focuses on identity politics, cultural memory and postcolonial studies in contemporary Black British literature – from fiction and poetry to theatre. She is particularly interested in the critical and aesthetic ways in which writers engage with, and reflect on, socio-political discussions concerning race-related events in Britain. She has recently published on the counter-hegemonic connection between Black Britishness and celebration in FRAME Journal of Literary Studies (37.1), and is currently working on the politics of representation in literature and post-Brexit theatre. From September 2024 to January 2025, she will be conducting an individual research internship at the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, focused on the politics and aesthetics of representing multicultural identities in contemporary Black British women’s writing through multimodal and experimental forms.