Kirstin Gwyer has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2025-26. Kirstin’s project – Following Kafka: From the Holocaust to Postcolonialism to a Posthuman Future – examines intertextual responses to Kafka in post-Holocaust, Black and postcolonial, and posthumanist writing. Her book explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century authors and theorists across the world have found formal blueprints in Kafka’s work for shaping experience resistant to straightforward thought and expression: genocide, colonization, slavery, racism, posthuman entanglement, environmental collapse.

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