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The Summer School intends to foster a dialogue “between and beyond” literary texts, between and beyond the diverse souls of the Postcolonial (and Decolonial) involving Environmental Studies, Ecofeminism, Queer and Posthuman Studies, in an attempt to unlock new opportunities to understand the “contemporary extreme”. 

Building on a reflection on the literary text, as well as on the postcolonial cultural object more broadly —which by its very nature calls for transdisciplinarity and cooperation among different spheres of knowledge— we aim to equip participants with the necessary tools so as to adequately frame their presence in the ‘narrative’ of globalization within a critical perspective. 

The edition of 2026 Summer School is centered on Postcolonial Horrors and aims to explore horror as an aesthetic, political, and epistemological symbol through which postcolonial literatures stage the traumatic memories of colonization, identity tensions, diasporic movements, and the re-emergence of the spectral within global modernities. The goal is to interpret horror not only as a genre, but as a critical and deconstructive tool capable of destabilizing ethnocentric categories of subjectivity, body, sovereignty, and knowledge.