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Recent and forthcoming publications

Boriana Alexandrova

Nicoletta Asciuto

• (eds. Nicoletta Asciuto, Nina Engelhardt, Susanne Schregel), Degrees of Elevation - Modes of Reflection, Special Issue of Space and Culture, Vol. 23, Issue 4 (2020)

Derek Attridge (Emeritus)

• The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers (Oxford University Press, 2019)

David Attwell (Emeritus)

• (eds. David Attwell, Annalisa Pes, Susanna Zinato.), Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature (Routledge, 2019)

Jennie Batchelor

• The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
• Jane Austen Embroidery (Pavilion, 2020)

Lola Boorman

• Lydia Davis's Grammatical Examples, Twentieth-Century Literature 69: 3 (2023): pp. 271–292.
• The End of the Story: Grammar, Gender, and Time in the Contemporary Short Story, The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story, ed. Gavin Jones and Michael J. Collins (Cambridge University Press, 2023): pp. 327-340

John Bowen

• The Man in White: Wilkie Collins’s Styles in On Style in Victorian Fiction, ed. Daniel Tyler (Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 172-190
• Charles Dickens and the Gothic in The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume II: Gothic in The Nineteenth Century, eds. Dale Townshend, Angela Wright, Catherine Spooner (Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 246-264
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (Oxford World's Classics, 2021)

Janine Bradbury

• (ed. with Suzanne Scafe) The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Black British Writing: Volume 3 - 1980-2024. (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2026)
• "The Ancestor, Passing, and Imagination' in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child'." Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison eds. Linda Wagner-Martin, Kelly Reames (Bloomsbury, 2023)
• "Meridian", "Stranger Days", and "Jellyfish" [Poems] in Blood & Cord: Writers on Early Parenthood (Emma Press, 2023)
• "it's 1994 and this brown girl thinks she smells like teen spirit" and American Smooth [Poems] in Magma 85: Poems for Schools eds. Edited by Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Laurie Smith, Gill Ward

Jonathan Brockbank

• Godzilla, Science and Culture, blog for Science Museum (3 November, 2022)

• (eds. Matthew Campbell and Lauren Arrington) The Oxford Handbook of W. B. Yeats (Oxford University Press, 2023)
• Irish Literature in Transition, 1830–1880 (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Michele Campopiano

• (eds. Michele Campopiano, Christian Etheridge) Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000-1500 (Brepols, 2021)
• La città considerata come principio ideale delle istorie italiane (Edizioni della Normale, 2021)
• Writing the Holy Land: The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300-1550 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
• (eds. Michele Campopiano, Helen Fulton) Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in the Later Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer, 2018)

Anthony Vahni Capildeo

• Polka Dot Wounds (Carcanet, 2024)
• A Happiness (Intergraphia, 2022)
• Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, 2021)
• The Dusty Angel (Oystercatcher, 2021)
• Light Site (Periplum Poetry, 2020)
• Odyssey Calling (Sad Press, 2020) 

Olivia Carpenter

Olivia is Reviewing Editor for the Journal of Victorian Culture

Maya Caspari

• (Caspari, Maya and Ruth Daly, eds.) Reading Otherwise: Decolonial Feminisms, Special Issue of Parallax, Volume 29 Issue 2 (2023)
• Moving Archives, Touch, and World Literary Melancholy in Han Kang's The Vegetarian Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2022)

Claire Chambers

• (ed.) Dastarkhwan: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia (Beacon Books, 2021)
• (ed.) Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia (Picador, 2021)
• (Claire Chambers, Richard Phillips, Nafhesa Ali, Kristina Diprose, Indrani Karmkar) Storying Relationships: Young British Muslims Speak and Write about Sex and Love (Zed Books, 2021)
• (eds. Claire Chambers, Nafhesa Ali, Richard Phillips) A Match Made in Heaven: British Muslim Women Write About Love and Desire (HopeRoad Publishing, 2020)
• Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Claire Chambers is the co-editor for two book series: Routledge's Global Literature: Twenty-First Century Perspectives and Manchester University Press's Multicultural Textualities. With Kaiser Haq, she also edits the six-volume Cultural History series for Bloomsbury, A Cultural History of South Asian Literature. Previously, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature (SAGE) for over a decade.

Victoria Coulson

• 'Norms of Embodiment and Transgender Recognition: The "Wrong Body" Problem, the Taboo on Translocation, and the Case of Henry James', in Novel: A Forum on Fiction (Volume 56, Issue 2, August 2023)

Brian Cummings

• Bibliophobia (Oxford University Press, 2022)
• (eds. Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Bronwyn Wallace, Alexandra Walsham) Memory and the English Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
• (eds. Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Karis Riley, Alexandra Walsham) Remembering the Reformation (Routledge, 2020)
• The Book of Common Prayer: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Alice Hall

• Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2023)
• The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability (Routledge, 2020)

Alice Hall is editor of Liverpool University Press's Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society series. This series includes works on disability, illness, ageing, sexuality, gender, race, affect, care, technology, and the body as spectacle. It encompasses a broad historical range, from the Early Modern period to the present day, and engages with a rich variety of cultural forms including films, novels, comics, medical texts and public exhibitions.  

Thomas Houlton

• Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects: From Mesolithic to Eco-Queer (Routledge, 2021)

Shazia Jagot

• Chaucer and Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen): Perspectiva, Arabic Mathematics, and Acts of Looking, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022), 27-61

Shazia Jagot is a co-editor of the international journal, postmedieval which publishes theoretically driven scholarship on premodernity and its ongoing reverberations. Contributions to the journal are characterised by conceptual adventure, stylistic experiment, political urgency, or surprising encounter. She is also editor of the book series, Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture, which showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature

Holly James-Maddocks is co-editor, with Orietta Da Rold, of the book series York Manuscript and Early Print Studies, for York Medieval Press (an imprint of Boydell & Brewer)

Kevin Killeen is the editor of Renaissance Studies, a multi-disciplinary journal which publishes articles and editions of documents on all aspects of Renaissance history and culture. The articles range over the history, art, architecture, religion, literature, and languages of Europe during the period.

Alexandra Kingston-Reese

• Art Essays (University of Iowa Press, 2021)
• Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First-Century American Life, (University of Iowa Press, 2020)

Alexandra Kingston-Reese is the editor of ASAP/J, the open-access platform of ASAP/Journal, the scholarly publication of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Like the association and print journal it serves, ASAP/J explores new developments in a variety of post-1960 arts, including literature, plastic and visual arts, digital arts, music and sound art, performance, architecture and design, mixed media and intermedia arts, and so on. ASAP/J provides a forum for dialogue among and between scholars and practitioners of the contemporary, and it seeks to advance our collective knowledge of our own elusive contemporaneity.

Daniel Matore

Jon Mee

• Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
• (eds. Jon Mee, Matthew Sangster) Remediating the 1820s (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
• (eds. Jon Mee, Matthew Sangster) Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• (eds. Jon Mee, James Grande) William Hazlitt, The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics, 2021)

Juliana Mensah

• Castles from Cobwebs (Saraband, 2021) 

Emilie Morin

• (ed.) Early Radio: An Anthology of European Texts and Translations, with translations by Emilie Morin, Marielle Sutherland and Nicoletta Asciuto (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2023)

Emilie Morin is co-editor of the Clemson University Press book series Modernist Constellations, and is on the Editorial Board of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, a journal that fosters dialogue on Beckett across languages and cultures.

• "Public Improvement as ‘National Ornament’: Commerce, Culture, and Patriotism in London and Edinburgh" in The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts, ed. Sophie Thomas and Maureen McCue (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
• "Literary and Visual Representations" in A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Ilja van Damme. Volume 4 of A Cultural History of Shopping 6 vols., ed. Jon Stobart (Bloomsbury, 2022)
• Everlasting Memorials’: Urban Improvement and the Shadow of Ruin in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London, Eighteenth-Century Life Special Issue Spaces of Enlightenment 45: 3 (September 2021)

Melissa Oliver-Powell

• PEPSI AND THE PILL: Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958-1969 (Berghahn Books, 2022)
• Scroungers, Strivers, and Single Mothers: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State in Ken Loach’s Social Realism, in The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature, eds. Beth Widmaier Capo and Laura Lazzari, 2022, pp. 513-538
• Beyond the Spectacle of Suffering: Agnès Varda's L'Une chante, l'autre pas and Rewriting the Subject of Abortion in France, in Feminist Studies, Vol. 46, Issue 1, 2020, pp. 14-42

Namratha Rao

• '"Good to think with": Spenser's Animals against Materiality', Edmund Spenser and Animal Life, eds. Abigail Shinn and Rachel Stenner (Palgrave, forthcoming 2024)
• The Virtues of Mediation: Milton's Ludlow Maske', The Review of English Studies 74.315 (June 2023), 485-501
• Thinking', 'Companionable Thinking: Spenser with..., special issue of Spenser Studies (Vol 37) edited by David Hillman, Joe Moshenska and Namratha Rao (University of Chicago Press, 2023)  
• Ground-plots of Invention: Poetics of the Material and Difficult Thinking in The Faerie Queene English Literary Renaissance 53.2 (May 2023), 1-32

Hannah Roche

• The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance (Columbia University Press, 2019)

Deborah Russell

• Ann Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, ed. Deborah Russell (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1831 edition), ed. Deborah Russell (Oxford World's Classics, forthcoming)
• Consequential Madness: Gender and Power in Romantic-Period Madhouse Literature in Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century, eds. Lucy Cogan and Michelle O'Connell (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 2022), pp.235-254
• Domestic Gothic Writing after Horace Walpole and before Ann Radcliffe, in The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume I: Gothic in The Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Dale Townshend and Angela Wright (Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 222-242

Erica Sheen

• Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2024)
• (ed.) MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, Special Issue: Reframing Varda, Issue 12 Autumn 2023

Erica is a member of the Editorial Board of Adaptation and an editor of the journal Literatūra

Freya Sierhuis

• Russ Leo, Katrin Roeder, and Freya Sierhuis, eds., Fulke Greville and the Literary Culture of the English Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Helen Smith

Helen Smith is editor of Literature and History, and for the Bloomsbury Early Modern Material Cultures series

• The Canada-US Border: Culture and Theory co-edited with Jeffrey Orr (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
• (eds. David Stirrup, Gordon Henry Jr, Margaret Noodin) Enduring Critical Poses: The Legacy and Life of Anishinaabe Literature and Letters (SUNY Press 2021 )
• Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature (Michigan State University Press, 2020)

Natasha Tanna

• The Politics of Plagiarism: Queer Appropriation and Collaborative Creation in Ena Lucía Portela and María Moreno in Comparative Literature, Vol. 74, Issue 4, December 2022
• Unravelling Compulsory Happiness in Exile: Cristina Peri Rossi’s The Ship of Fools in Feminist Theory, 20:1, 2019, pp.55–72
• Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company (Legenda, 2019) 

Matthew Townend

• The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore (Oxford University Press. 2024).

Elizabeth Tyler

• Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Richard Walsh

• (eds. Richard Walsh, James Phelan, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen) Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited (Ohio State University Press, 2022)
• Fictionality as Rhetoric, Special issue of Style, Vol. 53, No. 4 (2020).
• (eds. Richard Walsh, Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Nielsen) Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives (Ohio State University Press, 2018)
• (eds. Richard Walsh, Susan Stepney) Narrating Complexity (Springer, 2018)

Jim Watt

• British Orientalisms, 1759-1835 (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

JT Welsch

• The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry (Anthem, 2020)
• (eds. JT Welsch, Ágnes Lehóczky) Wretched Strangers: Borders Movements Homes (Boiler House, 2018)

Claire Westall

• The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature (Palgrave 2021)
• (eds. Michelle Kelly, Claire Westsall) Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (Routledge, 2020)

Chloe Wigston Smith

• Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2024)
• (eds. Chloe Wigston Smith, Beth Fowkes Tobin) Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• (eds. Chloe Wigston Smith, Serena Dyer) Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Bloomsbury, 2020)

James Williams

• (eds. James Williams, Anna Barton) The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
• Edward Lear (Liverpool University Press, 2018)

James Williams is an editor of the Cambridge Quarterly, an OUP journal of literary criticism which also publishes articles on cinema, the visual arts, and music. Founded in 1965, Cambridge Quarterly was conceived as the successor to the famous Scrutiny, but quickly established its editorial independence. It aims, without sacrifice of scholarly standards, to engage readers outside as well as inside the academic profession.

Lauren Working