Academic interests
I am a literary scholar in border studies and environmental humanities. My current research explores the links between border regimes, ecological futures and systems of cultural distribution in contemporary global literature. Having a broad interdisciplinary interest in literary and cultural humanities, I have published widely on critical border studies, oceanic humanities, Australian literature and publishing, African literatures, human geography and University Studies, in journals like Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Dialogues in Human Geography, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Research in African Literatures (forthcoming), ARIEL (forthcoming), The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel, Australian Humanities Review, Antipodes, Journal of Australian Studies, and JASAL. I am committed to public humanities, and contribute to literary periodicals whenever there is some extra time.
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Background
I am a Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow. I joined the department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo in late 2023. Prior to coming to UiO, I was Postdoctoral Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen and the University of Potsdam, Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies Program at the University of Melbourne, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the English department at the University of Tübingen.
I completed my PhD in English at the University of Melbourne in 2019. My PhD thesis concerned the body of work and history of publishing by the Australian author, Peter Carey, to account for the making of global literary prestige and significant cultural currency for Australian literature and culture worldwide from the late 1960s until the present moment. My first monograph, out of this thesis, was published as Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist (Palgrave, 2023). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27564-7
I am now finalising my second book entitled, Liquid Borders: Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Oceanic World Literatures. This book argues that Gurnah’s fiction troubles the tendency of the discipline of world literature for mapping the globe according to geopolitically demarcated borders, by showing that literary worlds are shaped as much by water as they are by land-defined nation states.
Awards
- 2023. Marie Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship, the University of Oslo.
- 2022. Postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Potsdam and the University of Tübingen.
- 2022. Fryer Library Fellowship. The University of Queensland.
- 2022. Bonn-Melbourne Research Excellence Fund, for the collaborative project “Water as Method: Reading the Hydrocolony in Global Literature.”
- 2022. Research Theme & Pathway Development, University of Melbourne, for the collaborative project “Water as Method: Reading the Hydrocolony in Australian Literature.”
- 2022. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Global Encounters. The University of Tübingen. (declined)
- 2021. Dyason Fellowship for collaborative research between scholars at the University of Tübingen and the University of Melbourne for the collaborative project ‘The Queer Form.’
- 2021. Postdoctoral Teach at Tübingen Fellowship at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, the University of Tübingen, Germany.
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2020. Emerging Critics Fellowship at Sydney Review of Books.
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2020. Shortlisted Woollahra Digital Literary Award for the essay ‘The Trouble of Middle-Eastern Literature.’
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2014. Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS), 4 years.
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2014. Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS), 4 years.
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2013. Universitas 21 Doctoral Mobility Scholarship. University of Auckland.
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