become a member
GAPS creates numerous opportunities for dialogues surrounding Anglophone Postcolonial Studies. Membership benefits include:
- networking opportunities linking students, early career and established scholars as well as teachers interested in Postcolonial Studies
- subscription to the GAPS mailing list with information about recent GAPS activities, calls for papers, job opportunities, publications, and other developments in the field
- discounted registration fees for the annual conference
- students and precariously employed GAPS members can apply for travel bursaries to attend the annual conference
- advisors of undergraduate, master’s theses and state examination theses as well as PhD advisors who are GAPS members are entitled to nominate candidates for the GAPS Graduate and Dissertation Awards
- eligibility to serve on GAPS committees and participate in board and other elections
How to join
Please fill in our membership application form in your browser.
Annual fees
| Reduced | For members with a monthly net income below 1,500€ | 25€ |
| Regular I | For members with a monthly net income below 3,000€ | 50€ |
| Regular II | For members with a monthly net income above 3,000€ | 75€ |
| Sustaining | Each voluntary sustaining member sponsors a non-fee-paying member from the “Reduced” category | 100€ |