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Alex Tickell’s Leverhulme Trust project monograph City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship, will be published in April 2025 and is available for pre-order. A discount code is available on the attached flyer.

Co-edited by a long-standing member of the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group, David Johnson, the Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals redefines research on small-press publications across the colonial public sphere.

Angela Eyre contributed to a Routledge publication on Kipling edited by Jan Montefiore and Harish Trivedi: Kipling in India, India in Kipling. Her article is titled 'Mind the gap: Hindi, Urdu and Hindustani words in Kipling’s Kim'. (March 2021)

Alex Tickell’s paper on ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Transnational Reproduction: Form and Intertextuality in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers and A Lover’s Discourse’ will be published shortly in Studies in the Novel (spring issue) Vol. 55 No. 1, 2023

Fiona Doloughan’s monograph, Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel, published by Anthem Press on February 14, 2023, treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction.

David Johnson’s book ‘I See You’: The Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, 1919-1930 has been published with Historical Publications Southern Africa (HiPSA). An online launch event took place on 17th November 2022.

Alex Tickell’s Conversation article on the Chinese community in India during the Sino-Indian war of 1962 was published online on 7th November 2022.

Alex Tickell, David Johnson and Anne Wetherilt organised a face-to-face postgraduate conference in collaboration with the University of Bristol on 2nd July 2022 ‘Contemporary Debates in Postcolonial, Decolonial and Global Literary Studies’. Current PGLRG Postgraduate students Sophie Montebello and Anita Schwartz presented papers.

Alex Tickell was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (£35,072) in March 2022 for his project ‘City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship’. This ten-month project will start in November 2022. 

Andrew Griffiths has a new publication. ‘Madness, Masculinity and Empire in Rudyard Kipling’s “Thrown Away” and “The Madness of Private Ortheris”’ which is available online as an advance article in the Journal of Victorian Culture.