Members - World Literature Network

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Mostafa Abedinifard, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019), University of Toronto

Nazry Bahrawi, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Jason Baskin, Exeter University

Ericka Beckman, University of Pennsylvania

Samanta Bellotta, QMUL

Neval Berber

Charlotte Beyer, University of Gloucestershire

Arunima Bhattacharya, Leeds University

Sourit Bhattacharya, Warwick University

Hannah Boast, Birmingham University: Hannah Boast researchs water crisis in contemporary world literature and is writing a monograph titled Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature.

Elleke Boehmer, Oxford University

Diana Brydon, University of Manitoba

Lorna Burns, St Andrews University

Alexandra Campbell, Bath Spa

Chris Campbell, Exeter University

Maria Elisa Cevasco, Universidade de São Paulo

Joe Cleary, Yale University

Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Huelva University

Asis De

Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin

Treasa De Loughry, Exeter University: Treasa De Loughry joins the University of Exeter in January 2018 as a full-time Lecturer of Global Literature. She has published previously on America’s signal crisis in Salman Rushdie’s Fury; on plasticide and petro-finance in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest; and on narratives of environmental crisis and energy scarcity in David Mitchell’s global fictions. Her wider research interests include comparative literary studies, capitalist modernity, world-ecology, the Green Revolution and petrocultures.

Ryan Dennis, NUI Galway

Pat Ezinwoke

Deirdre Flynn, University College Dublin

John Gardner, Anglia Ruskin University

Javier Gimenez-Sanchez

Rebecca Gould

Sorcha Gunne, NUI Galway: One of the founder members of the world-literature network, Sorcha’s recent research – including an article in the forthcoming special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents – focuses on the intersection of world literature, materialist feminism and gender studies.

Sri Habsari

Chelsea Haith

Daniel Hartley, Leeds University: Daniel Hartley is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for World Literatures at the University of Leeds. His first book, The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics, was published in 2017. He is currently working on two interrelated book projects: a comparative study of impersonality and depersonalisation in contemporary world literature, and a postcolonial theory of personhood.

Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University

Christinna Hobbs, Liverpool John Moores University

Jason Hong, Yale University

Angela Howell

Jenny Horton, Clemson University

Kate Houlden, Anglia Ruskin University: Kate Houlden is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin and one of the founder members of the world literature network. Her most recent work – including an essay on the author Anna Kavan for Women: A Cultural Review (2017) – is on the intersections between queer, transnational feminist and world-literary approaches to fiction.

Walt Hunter, Clemson University: Walt Hunter is author of Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization, forthcoming from Fordham University Press. He has written about poetry in the Atlantic, ASAP/Journal, College Literature, Cultural Critique, the minnesota review, Modern Philology, symplokē, Viewpoint, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in the Harvard Advocate, Boston Review, Oversound, and Prelude. He is the co-translator, with Lindsay Turner, of Frédéric Neyrat’s Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism (Fordham UP, 2017).

Margaret-Anne Hutton, St Andrews University

Indrani Karmakar

Wendy Knepper, Brunel University

Stephanie Lambert, York University

Neil Lazarus, Warwick University

Belén Martín-Lucas, Universitat de Vigo

Fiona McCann

Brian McGrath, Clemson University

Rebecca Macklin, Leeds University

Rebecca Mann

Maitrayee Misra

Mafruha Mohua, QMUL

M V Ramana Moorthy

Michael Morris

Kate Morrison

Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University

Angela Naimou, Clemson University

Michael Niblett, Warwick University

Marilin North

Kenneth Toah Nsah

Zoe Norridge, Kings College London

David O’Connor, University of New Mexico

Dominic O’Key

Kerstin Oloff, Durham University

Cóilín Parsons, Georgetown University

Michael Paye, IADT, Dún Laoghaire

Lucy Potter

Aida Rosende-Pérez, Universitat de les Illes Balears

Nebojša Radić

Tomas René, Palgrave Macmillan

Nestor E. Rodriguez, University of Toronto

Vivek Santayana, University of Edinburgh

Stephen Shapiro, Warwick University

Flair Donglai Shi (施东来), Oxford University: Flair Donglai Shi (施东来) is a DPhil candidate in English at the University of Oxford. His thesis focuses on the Yellow Peril as a traveling discourse in modern Anglophone and Sinophone literatures. His research interests include postcolonial and queer theories, Victorian literature and modern East Asian literatures. His articles have been published in many academic journals including Women: A Cultural Review, Comparative Literature & World Literature, Subalternspeak and so on.