Welcome to THE Postcolonial Studies Association Website!

Follow the link to read the Call for Articles: ‘New Directions in Postcolonial Studies’.

The Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA) is a professional organisation that aims to bring together scholars working on postcolonial topics in any discipline or language.

Our Objective

To promote and encourage the development of postcolonial studies, creating an interdisciplinary forum for information exchange, networking opportunities, research collaborations and other activities.

Though based in the UK and Ireland, the PSA’s scope and membership are international, and the Association actively welcomes scholars dealing with non-Anglophone literatures and languages - particularly those that are not represented by existing research centres and groups.

The need for such an Association was discussed by delegates at the end of the “Rerouting the Postcolonial” conference at the University of Northampton on 3-4 July 2007, but has also been expressed at numerous postcolonial conferences and workshops in recent years, by both individual scholars and research groups.

This Association wishes to acknowledge the input and contribution of all such early initiatives and warmly to welcome all those who have an interest in exploring and promoting postcolonial networks in the UK, Ireland and beyond.

A start-up meeting, hosted by Professors Janet Wilson and Elleke Boehmer, was held in Oxford on Saturday 8 March in order to discuss and formalise the PSA’s identity, functions, and future development. We already have over a hundred people on our mailing list and have received very positive feedback from them as well as from parallel institutions and research centres. A full committee structure is now in place, with Dr Chris Warnes as Chair, and Dr Ranka Primorac as Vice-Chair.

The Association actively seeks to engage in productive collaborations with other national and international groups, and it has already established formal relations with the European Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (EACLALS) and other institutions.

We would like to encourage representatives from other associations, centres and research groups to get in touch and attend future PSA meetings in order to identify potential affinities and synergies.

If you would like to join the PSA please click here.