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
ENGE5340 Distant Readings
Research Interests
Twentieth-century world literature, postcolonial literatures, African literatures in English, literary theory, computational literary studies
Selected Publications
Books
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
2023, forthcoming
Mapping the Posthuman. London: Routledge (co-edited with Carolyn Lau).
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
2023, forthcoming
At First Blush: New Materialism and Computational Literary Studies in New Materialist Literary Theory: Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene, edited by Kerstin Howaldt and Kai Merten, TBC. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books.
2023, forthcoming
Technology and Literary Criticism in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities, edited by Chan Sin-wai, TBC. London: Routledge.
2023, forthcoming
Densities and Fugitive Vectors in Technology and Culture, edited by Kim Mak Kin-wah, TBC. London: Routledge.
2023, forthcoming
The Deleuzo-Guattarian Book and the Meaning of J.M. Coetzee’s Foe, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, TBC.
2020
J.G. Ballard's Shanghai in Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai: Cultural Representations from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, edited by L. Bernstein and C. Cheng, 143-158. New York: SUNY Press.
2019
Shklovsky and World Literature in Viktor Shklovsky's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy, edited by Slav Gratchev and Howard Mancing, 139-150. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books.
2018
Aporia and Diaspora: The Unliveable 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 Deleuze and the Humanities: East and West, edited by R. Braidotti, K.Y. Wong, and A.K.S. Chan, 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
2023-2026
General Research Fund
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
