Felipe Espinoza Garrido
© F. Espinoza

AR Felipe Espinoza Garrido

Englisches Seminar
Universität Münster
Johannisstr. 12-20
D-48143 Münster
Germany

Phone: +49-(0)251-83-24650
E-mail: espinoza.garrido@uni-muenster.de

Room: 309

Student hours (summer term 2025): Mondays, 12-1 pm
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[Please note: As I am supervising a large number of theses already, I can not accept any further supervision requests for theses that will be handed in before 1 June 2026.]

Felipe Espinoza Garrido (he/him) is Senior Lecturer for English, Postcolonial and Media Studies at the University of Münster, where he received a PhD in film studies/English philology. He holds an M.A. in political science and has previously taught media and cultural studies at the University of Dortmund and the University of Lisbon. Recently, Felipe was a visiting researcher at Stanford University and the University of California Santa Barbara. He was a member of the NWO-funded network ‘Postcolonial Intellectuals and their European Publics’ (2019–2022) and is a current member of the EU-funded network ‘MigraMedia: Migration Narratives in European Media: Teaching, Learning, and Reflecting.’ Specializing in popular culture and postcolonial studies, he publishes on transnational media, film, and television, on Black British and afrodiasporic textualities, as well as Victorian and neo-Victorian literatures and cultures. He is the author of Reframing Margaret Thatcher: Genre, Form, and the Making of Post-Thatcherism in British Film and TV (Manchester UP, 2025 [forth.]). He is currently working on a monograph on empire imaginations in popular Victorian women’s writing.

  • Publications

    Monographs

    • 2025. Reframing Margaret Thatcher: Genre, Form, and the Making of Post-Thatcherism in British Film and TV. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [forthcoming]

    Edited Works

    • 2026. With Lea Espinoza Garrido (Eds.). Apocalypoetics: Poetry of/at the End of the World. Special Issue, Apocalyptica 5. [in preparation, cfp here].
    • 2026. With yashka Chavan, and Rita Maricocchi (Eds.). Queer Graphic Diasporas. Special Cluster, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65:3. [forthcoming]
    • 2022. With Marlena Tronicke and Julian Wacker (Eds.). Black Neo-Victoriana. Amsterdam, Boston, New York: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004469150.
      Reviews: Nadine Böhm-Schnitker in Neo-Victorian Studies, Harald Pittel in Journal for the Study of British Cultures (JSBC), and Beth Palmer in Victorian Studies.
    • 2020. With Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu, and Mark U. Stein (Eds.): Locating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations. London and New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429491092.

    Journal Articles

    • 2026. With yashka Chavan and Rita Maricocchi. ‘The Graphic Affordances of Queer Diasporic Narratives.’ Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65, No. 3 [forthcoming].

    • 2026. With yashka Chavan and Rita Maricocchi. ‘Inhabitable Spatialities and Queer Diasporic Interventions: A Conversation with Bishakh Som.’ Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65, No. 3 [forthcoming].

    • 2026. With yashka Chavan and Rita Maricocchi. ‘“It’s not my job to think about which box it’ll go into”: A Conversation with Bishakh Som.’ Closure: Kieler Journal für Comicforschung [forthcoming].

    • 2024. ‘Florence Marryat’s Sensational Ecologies of Empire, 1865–1897: Imaginary Tropics, White Proto-Feminism, and a Comforting Plantationocene.’ Anglia 142, No. 1: 29–48. doi: 10.1515/ang-2024-0004.

    • 2023. ‘Neo-Victorian.’ Victorian Literature and Culture 51, No. 3: 459–462. doi: 10.1017/S1060150323000542. [Open Access]

    • 2022. ‘“Ingratitude! Treachery! Revenge!”: Race, Empire, and Mutinous Femininities in Harriette Gordon Smythies’ ‘A Faithful Woman’ (1865). Victoriographies 12, No. 3: 243–268. doi: 10.3366/vic.2022.0469.

    • 2020. With Ana Mendes. ‘The Politics of Museal Hospitality: Sonia Boyce’s Neo-Victorian Takeover in Six Acts.’ The European Journal of English Studies (EJES) 24, No. 2: 283–299. doi: 10.1080/13825577.2020.1876595.
    • 2020. ‘Queerness in the Neo-Victorian Empire: Sexuality, Race, and the Limits of Self-Reflexivity in Carnival Row and The Terror.’ Neo-Victorian Studies 13, No. 1: 212–241. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4320820.
    • 2020. ‘Reframing the Post-Apocalypse in Black British Film: The Dystopian Afrofuturism of Welcome II the Terrordome and Shank.’ Critical Studies in Media Communication 37, No. 4. doi: 10.1080/15295036.2020.1820537.
    • 2017. ‘Thatcherism as Trauma in Neil Marshall's Doomsday.’ Thatcherism and Popular Culture, Spec. Issue, Journal of European Popular Culture 8, No. 2: 187–199. doi: 10.1386/jepc.8.2.187_1.

    Book Chapters

    • 2026. ‘The Sensational Caribbean: Rebellious Islands in the White Imagination.’ In The Routledge Companion to Sensation Fiction, edited by Anne-Marie Beller and Tara MacDonald. New York: Routledge. [forthcoming]

    • 2026. ‘Fucking Awkward: Politics and Poetics of Stand-in Sex in The Wings of the Dove (1997) and Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022).’ In Radical Embodiment: Political Perspectives on the Body, Time and Film, edited by Louis Bayman and Davina Quinlivan. London: Bloomsbury. [forthcoming]

    • 2026. ‘“I cannot sweep it under the rug”: Neo-Nollywood, Nigerian Independence, and Imperial Dis/Continuities in Kunle Afolayan’s October 1.’ In Reading Nigeria: Learning with Nigerian Literature in the EFL Classroom, edited by Matz, Frauke, Mark U. Stein, and Klaus Stierstorfer. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. [forthcoming]

    • 2025. ‘Race, Gender, and Reparative Revisions in Lauren Woolbright and Marie Jarrell’s Videogame Sequel Blood of the Vampire (2018).’In Victorians and Videogames, edited by S. Brooke Cameron and Lin Young. New York: Routledge. [forthcoming]

    • 2025. ‘Prescient Heroines and Patriarchal Legality in the Sensational 1860s: The Gendered Laws of Genre in Collins’s The Woman in White and Gordon Smythies’s A Faithful Woman.’ In Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature, edited by Laura Schmitz-Justen, Laura A. Zander, Hanna Luise Kroll, and Laura Wittmann, 43–59. Berlin: de Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783111302591-004.

    • 2025. ‘Bull-Dog Drummond und die populäre Moderne: Pulp und die Modellierung des Aufbruchs in Hutchinson’s Story Magazine.’ In Kolportage und Moderne: Literarische Verfahren und Formate zwischen Populär- und Hochkultur, edited by David Brehm and Katharina Scheerer, 103–126. Freiburg: Rombach. doi: 10.5771/9783988580108-103. [Bull-Dog Drummond and Popular Modernism]

    • 2024. With Bibi Jamila Sadat. ‘“It's my habit not to have fear:” An Interview with Bibi Jamila Sadat.’ In Mobility, Agency, Kinship: Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood, edited by Lea Espinoza Garrido, Carolin Gebauer, and Julia Wewior, 255–264. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-60754-7_11.
    • 2024. ‘Postcolonial and Global Neo-Victorianisms.’ In The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism, edited by Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier, 89–115. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-32160-3_6.
    • 2024. With Lea Espinoza Garrido. ‘Berlin als transnationales Archiv: Stadt, Raum und Erinnerung in Babylon Berlin.’ In Babylon Berlin und die filmische (Re-)Modellierung der 1920er-Jahre: Medienkulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, edited by Andreas Blödorn and Stephan Brössel, 139–166. Baden-Baden: Rombach. doi: 10.5771/9783968218816-139. [‘Berlin as Transnational Archive: City, Space, and Memory in Babylon Berlin’]
    • 2023. ‘The Order of Crime: Transnationalism, Trauma, and German Reunification in Dominik Graf’s Im Angesicht des Verbrechens and The Wachowski’s Sense8.’ In Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film, edited by Stephan Ehrig, Benjamin Schaper, and Elizabeth Ward, 172–202. Oxford, New York: Berghahn. [Open Access] 
    • 2023. ‘Reframing the Post-Apocalypse in Black British Film: The Dystopian Afrofuturism of Welcome II the Terrordome and Shank.’ In Afrofuturism's Transcultural Trajectories: Resistant Imaginaries Between Margins and Mainstreams, edited by Ulrike Pirker and Judith Rahn, 31–44. London, New York: Routledge. [Repub.]

    • 2022. With Marlena Tronicke and Julian Wacker. ‘Blackness and Neo-Victorian Studies: Re-Routing Imaginations of the Nineteenth Century.’ In Black Neo-Victoriana, edited by Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Marlena Tronicke und Julian Wacker, 1–30. Amsterdam, New York: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004469150_002.

    • 2020. ‘“Imagine your past as a film”: Post-Exile Re-Projections in Los Náufragos and Imagen Latente.’ In Nachexil / Post-Exile, edited by Katja Sarkowsky and Bettina Bannasch, 295–316. Exilforschung: Ein Internationales Jahrbuch 38. Berlin, Boston: deGruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110688030-014.

    • 2020. ‘“The Past Can Hurt”: Minstreltradition und Selbstzitat bei Disney.’ In Moderne Märchen: Populäre Variationen in jugendkulturellen Literatur- und Medienformaten der Gegenwart, edited by Maren Conrad, 126–154. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. ["The Past Can Hurt:": Minstrel Traditions and Self-Citations in Disney Media]
    • 2020. With Julian Wacker. ‘Frontline Fictions: Popular Forms From Crime to Grime.’ In The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing, edited by Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein, 598–619. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108164146.038.
    • 2020. With Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu, and Mark U. Stein. ‘African European Studies as a Critique of Contingent Belonging.’ In Locating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations, edited by Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu, and Mark U. Stein, 1–28. London & New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429491092-1.

    Encyclopedia Entries

    • 2019. ‘Harriette Gordon Smythies.’ In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing (Living Edition), edited by Lesa Scholl and Emily Morris. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_129-1.
    • 2019. ‘Rhoda Broughton.’ In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing (Living Edition), edited by Lesa Scholl and Emily Morris. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_130-1.

    Book Reviews

    • 2022. ‘Review: Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Familial Feeling: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel. Cham: Palgrave, 2021.’ Journal for the Study of British Cultures 29.1: 130–134.

    • 2020. ‘Review: Catherine Pope, Florence Marryat. Brighton: Edward Everett Root, 2020.’ English Studies 101, No. 7: 904–905. doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2020.1843269.
    • 2020. ‘Review: Benjamin Halligan, Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016.’ Studies in European Cinema 20. doi: 10.1080/17411548.2020.1741129.
    • 2019. ‘Review: Barbara Franchi and Elvan Mutlu, eds. Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel: Spaces, Nations and Empires. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.’ Symbolism 19: 293–298. doi: 10.1515/9783110634952-014.

    Other

    • 2025. With Sneha Pan, Jesper Reddig, Silvia Schultermandl, and Yehuda Sharim. ‘It Never Ends After Filming: A Conversation with Yehuda Sharim,’ MigraMedia: Migration Narratives in European Media: Teaching, Learning, and Reflecting. https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/migramedia/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/MigraMedia_Interview_with_Yehuda_Sharim.pdf.

    • 2025. ‘Who Speaks, Who Narrates? Reflecting Positionalities in Migration Documentaries,’ teaching video for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) MigraMedia: Representation of Migration in Visual Media, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid. Video link.

    • 2019. ‘Conference Report: Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water,’ Association for Postcolonial Anglophone Studies (GAPS). https://g-a-p-s.net/past-conferences/conf2019/