Teaching
ENGE2380 Twentieth-Century Fiction
ENGE2640 Introduction to World Literatures in English
ENGE3250 Other Literature in English
ENGE5210 Advanced Studies in Literature
ENGE5270 Major Contemporary Novels
ENGE5310 Science Fiction and Utopia
Research Interests
Twentieth-century world literature, postcolonial literatures, African literatures in English, literary theory, computational literary studies
Selected Publications
Books
forthcoming, 2021
The London Object: Writing London at the End of Capitalism. London: Routledge.
2016
The World of Failing Machines: Speculative Realism and Literature. Winchester: Zero Books.
2011
On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi Press.
Edited books
2016
A Companion to Mia Couto. Suffolk: James Currey (co-edited with David Huddart).
2013
Reading Marechera. Suffolk: James Currey.
Recent Book Chapters & Journal Articles
2020
"J.G. Ballard's Shanghai" in L. Bernstein and C. Cheng (eds), Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai: Cultural Representations from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, 143-158. New York: SUNY Press.
2019
"Shklovsky and World Literature," in Slav Gratchev and Howard Mancing (eds). Viktor Shklovsky's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy, 139-150. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books.
2018
"Aporia and Diaspora: The Unlivable Life in Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read the Air," Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 12 no. 2: 153-165.
2018
"Defamiliarization and the Act of Reading World Literature," in R. Braidotti, K.Y. Wong, and A.K.S. Chan (eds.) Deleuze and the Humanities: East and West, 11-26. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.
2017
"Writing from the Outside? Post-1997 Expatriate Writing in Hong Kong," Wasafiri, vol. 32 no. 3: 18-24 (with David Huddart).
Research Grants and Awards
2018-2019
Direct Grant for Research
2015
Humanities Fellowship of the Faculty of Arts, 2015
2015-2016
Direct Grant for Research
2012-2013
Direct Grant for Research
