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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 17^th 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.

Print Culture in Southern Africa (Edited by Caroline Davis, Archie Dick, Elizabeth le Roux, Dennis Walder came out with Routledge) is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th century to the present day. Available from May 2021.

Alex Tickell’s special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Vol 57 Issue 2) on ‘Han Suyin: Literature, Politics and Translation’ co-edited with Feng Cui and Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy of NTU Singapore was published in March 2021.