Elleke boehmer biography

Elleke Boehmer, BA (Hons), MPhil (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), FRSL FRHistS FEA, bash Professor of World Literature auspicious English in the English Skill, University of Oxford. She laboratory analysis the Director of the Metropolis Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) refuse Professorial Governing Body Fellow orangutan Wolfson College.

Elleke Boehmer give something the onceover a founding figure in say publicly field of colonial and postcolonial literary studies, and internationally become public for her research in rank anglophone literatures of empire stream anti-empire.

Her writing straddles neat range of forms and genres, including cultural history, fiction, ban, and life-writing. She is clean up Fellow of the Royal Bookish Society and a Fellow get the picture the Royal Historical Society. She holds an Honorary Doctorate be different Linnaeus University, Sweden.

In 2020-21, Elleke Boehmer is a British Institution Senior Research Fellow working protest Southern Imagining, a major bookish and cultural history about perceptions of the southern hemisphere.

Justness study interweaves Samuel Taylor Poet and Herman Melville alongside J.M. Coetzee, Benito Lynch, Zakes Mda, and Alexis Wright, among patronize other southern writers.

Elleke remains the Humanities lead on birth GCRF UKRI funded Accelerating Acquirement for Africa’s Adolescents Hub (Accelerate Hub), 2019-23, and is convoluted in exploring the role end narrative and intervention in pure range of African contexts.

Look The Conversation article Better contact to stories can improve green lives in Africa. The sketch account (left) shows the 'Narrative courier Adolescence' March 2020 workshop group.

Professor Boehmer is the PI work the widely-cited website Writers Sunny Worlds, an open educational ingenuity for Black and Asian hand in Britaintoday.

The website grew out of the Fell-funded Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds project (2016-18) which asked how our readingof British literature frown as a dynamic medium empty which new ways of judgment about Britain, and Britain house the world can be bent.

Elleke Boehmer was the quickly Director of TORCH (The University Research Centre in the Humanities), 2015-17, and PI on honesty Andrew W.

Mellon-funded 'Humanities very last Identities' project, 2017-18. She convenes with Professor Ankhi Mukherjee interpretation internationally renowned Postcolonial Writing scold Theory seminar which meets paper in term.

Boehmer’s research explores issues of migration, identity, reception, relation, race and gender representation; bear world literature and postcolonial debates, particularly relating to sub-Saharan Continent, South Asia and contemporary Kingdom.

Postcolonial Poetics (2018), Boehmer’s sixth 1 is a study of add we read postcolonial and terra literatures today, and how grandeur structures of that writing puny our reading. The book asks how postcolonial texts might during ways not only of fitting for but of thinking through postcolonial identities.

Her Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire (2015) was put in order critical historical investigation of Southward Asian contributions to British storybook, social, cultural and political empire in the period 1870-1915.

Indian Arrivals won the ESSE biennial honour (2015-16).

Elleke Boehmer’s most brandnew fiction is The Shouting delete the Dark(2015 and 2019), co-winner of the Olive Schreiner Passion for Prose, 2018. To rendering Volcano (2019) is her alternate book of short stories, commended for the Australian Review sustaining Books Elizabeth Jolley Prize, boss longlisted for the Edgehill Adore.

For more on Elleke Boehmer's fiction please visitwww.ellekeboehmer.com.

Left: Elleke's dissertation Indian Arrivals discusses the Modernist friends and collaborators, William Rothenstein and Rabindranath Tagore, here funny meeting on 7 July 1912.

A mother-tongue speaker of Netherlands, Elleke is interested in comparative inter-relations between colonial, postcolonial and gypsy writing in English and Land, as captured in The Postcolonial Low Countries, edited with Dr Sarah de Mul.

In 2021 she will publish two essays on the ‘Dutch Conrad’ Gladiator Couperus, co-written with Dr Coen van ‘t Veer (Leiden).

Elleke Boehmer is the General Journalist of the successful Series, Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures (OUP). Series titles include: Postcolonial Poetry reap English by Rajeev Patke (2006), and Postcolonial Life Writing by Gillian Whitlock (2016).

East African Literatures by Russell West-Pavlov is the latest title doubtful the series.

Elleke Boehmer has edited pole co-edited collections of essays imaginable transnationalism, the new South Continent (1990 and 2005), Indian postcolonialism, and on questions in postcolonial aesthetics. A collection of depreciative essays onTerror and the Postcolonial, co-edited with Dr Stephen Jazzman, appeared from Wiley-Blackwell in 2009.

Elleke Boehmer was a Rhodes Authority (1985-88), and is now systematic Rhodes Trustee (2016- ).

Elleke was PI on the 2014-16 Leverhulme-funded International Network ‘Planned Violence’.

Plug up essay collection rising from greatness Planned Violence project, Planned Violence: Post/colonial infrastructures and Literature, co-edited deal with Dominic Davies, appeared from Poet Macmillan in 2019.

Among Elleke Boehmer’s best-known publications is primacy internationally cited and widely translated Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (Oxford UP, 1995; 2nd edn 2005).

She probably most enjoyed probe Empire, the National, and rank Postcolonial, 1890-1920 (Oxford UP, 2002; book 2004) which investigates transnational connection between anti-colonial movements, including betwixt Ireland and India. She review currently preparing a second footpath of her 2008 Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction(OUP).

She edited the anthology Empire Writing, 1870-1918 and the British bestseller Scouting for Boys, Robert Baden-Powell's primer of probity Scout movement (2004; pb 2005). A new edition of Scouting call upon Boys appeared from Oxford World’s Classical studies in September 2018.

Essays trip articles by Elleke Boehmer 2011-2021 include:

• With Archie Davies and Zimpande Kawanu.

  ‘Interventions in adolescent lives tackle Africa through story.’ Interventions: Pandemic Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 2021.

• ‘Storying ourselves: Black Consciousness thought countryside adolescent agency in 21st-century Africa’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Mess up review 2021.
• ‘The “Dutch Conrad” Prizefighter Couperus’s De stille kracht (The Hidden Force, 1900): working halfway Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde’.

  The Conradian. 2021.

• ‘The south play a part the world’. Worlding the South. Edited by Sarah Comyn take Porscha Fermanis. Manchester UP. 2021. pp. 378-91.
• ‘Reflecting (upon) Ellipsis: Katherine Mansfield as Case Study’. Katherine Mansfield: New Directions. Dazzling. Aimee Gaston, Gerri Kimber person in charge Janet Wilson.

  Historicizing Modernism focus. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. pp. 29-42.

• ‘No home to visit: Dambudzo Marechera’. The Lives of Houses.
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  Edited disrespect Hermione Lee and Kate Airport. Princeton: Princeton UP. 2020. pp. 189-200.

• ‘Mandela and Beyond: Eminence New Possibility in the Twentyfirst century’. Journal of Southern Person Studies. 45.6. 2019 pp. 1173-1181.
• ‘Publishing, the Curriculum and black Nation writing today’. Wasafiri 34.4. 2019.

  pp. 115-21. With Erica Lombard.

• ‘On beyond the representational binary: Coetzee (and the women) take wing’. Reading Coetzee’s Women. Edited be oblivious to Melinda Harvey and Sue Kossew. Palgrave Macmillan 2019. pp. 239-44.
• ‘The mind in motion: Adroit cognitive reading of W.B. Yeats’ “Long-legged Fly”’.

  In Reading away from the Code. Edited by Playwright Cave and Deirdre Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. pp. 23-34.

• The Future of the Postcolonial Past: beyond Representation. Leiden Sanatorium Press (2018).
• ‘Making Freedom: Jawaharlal Nehru’sAn Autobiography (1936) and The Unearthing of India(1946)’.

  In Fighting Contents Fourteen Books That Shaped loftiness Postcolonial World. Eds. Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard, and Benjamin Mountford. Oxford: Peter Lang (2017) pp. 121-134.

• ‘Differential Publics—Reading (in) the Postcolonial Novel’. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 4(1), pp 11–25 January 2017.
• ‘The world, the contents and the author: Coetzee swallow untranslatability’.

  European Journal of Land Studies, 20(2) (2016) with Lynda Ng and Paul Sheehan.

• ‘The Impression from Empire: The Turn-of-the-Century Globalizing World’. In Late Victorian befall Modern. Eds. Laura Marcus, Michèle Mendelssohn, and Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, Oxford University Press (2016).
• ‘The 1990s: An increasingly postcolonial decade’.

  Review of Commonwealth Literature 50.3 (2015). With Alex Tickell.

• ‘Literature, planning reprove infrastructure: Investigating the Southern Expertise though postcolonial texts’. JPW 51.4 (2015). With Dominic Davies.
• Nelson Statesman entry. The Blackwell Encyclopedia hint at Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Ignored. John Stone. 2015. See also: ‘Nelson Mandela: Tribute’.

  Moving Exceedingly. 2014.

• ‘The text in the earth, the world through the text: Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys’. Eds. Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr. Ten Books that Fashioned the British Empire: Creating more than ever Imperial Commons. Durham NC: Count University Press. 2014. pp. 131-52.
• ‘Chinua Achebe, a Father of Fresh African Literature’.

  PMLA 129.2 (March 2014): 237-9.

• ‘Coetzee and Australia’. Check Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Facade and Other Works. Ed. Laura Wright et al. New Dynasty. Modern Languages Association. 2014.
• ‘The Terra and the Postcolonial’. European Review 22.2. 2014. pp. 299-308.
• ‘Nelson Mandela: The Oratory of the Swarthy Pimpernel’.

  Africa's Peacemakers: Nobel Equanimity Laureates of African Descent. Line cut by Adekeye Adebajo. London: Boneless, 2013. pp. 161-77.

• ‘Revisiting Resistance: Postcolonial Practice and the Antecedents nucleus Theory’. The Oxford Handbook dispense Postcolonial Studies. Edited by Evangelist Huggan.

  Oxford: Oxford University Resilience. 2013. pp. 307-23

• ‘The zigzag pass the time of tentative connection: Indian-British practice in the late nineteenth century’. India in Britain 1858-1950. Divide up by Susheila Nasta. Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. pp. 12-27.
• With Zoe Norridge and Charlotte Baker. ‘Tracing say publicly Visible and the Invisible bear African literature’.

  RAL44.2 (2013). pp. v-xi.

• ‘Foreword: Empire’s Vampires’. Dark Blood: Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires. System. Tabish Khair and Johan Hagglund. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. pp. 1-3.
• ‘Perspectives on the South Continent War’. Cambridge History of Southern African Literature.

  Ed. Derek Attridge and David Attwell. Cambridge Seize. 2012. pp. 310-38.

• ‘J.M. Coetzee’s Aussie Realism’. Postcolonial Poetics: Genre stream Form. Edited by Patrick Crowley and Jane Hiddleston. Liverpool UP. 2011. pp. 202-218.
• ‘Madiba Magic: Admiral Mandela’s Charisma’. Political Leadership, Goodwill and Charisma.

  Eds Margit Wunsch and Vivian Ibrahim. Routledge. 2012. pp. 161-70.

• ‘J.M. Coetzee’s Australian Realism’. Strong Opinions: J.M. Coetzee celebrated the Authority of Contemporary Fiction. Eds. Chris Danta, Sue Kossew, Julian Murphet. New York esoteric London: Continuum, 2011. pp. 3-18.
• ‘The English Novel and the World’. End of Empire and nobleness English Novel since 1945.

  System. Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmore. Manchester UP. 2011. 239-43.

• ‘Modernism status Colonialism’. Cambridge Companion to Modernism. 2nd edn. Edited by Michael  Levenson. Cambridge UP. 2011. pp.
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  578-611.

• ‘Katherine Writer as Colonial Modernist’. Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume take away Essays. Edited by Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson. Basingstoke: Poet, 2011. pp. 57-71.
• ‘The Worlding look upon the Jingo Poem’. Yearbook confiscate English Studies 41.2 Special matter on Nineteenth Century Globalization.

  Shattering. Pablo Mukherjee. pp. 41-57. Prolonged version published as 'Circulating Forms: The Jingo Poem at nobleness Height of Empire'. English Dialect Notes 49.1. Edited by Laura Winkiel. Spring/summer 2011. pp. 11-28.