Publications

Forthcoming Monographs:

• Andrea Levy: Contemporary World Writers (forthcoming; under contract with Manchester UP).

• Migrants to the Screen: Contemporary Transnational Fiction in Adaptation (in development).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters: 

• ‘Hanif Kureishi: Fundamentalism and Multiculturalism’. The British Novel of Ideas: George Eliot to Zadie Smith, eds. Matthew Taunton and Rachel Potter (Cambridge UP, forthcoming).

• ‘Some Unsung Songs: Andrea Levy’s Late, Unpublished Work’. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 53: 1-2 (2022), 257-291. Link to article

• ‘Afterlives, Aftermaths: Levy Studies in the Twenty-First Century’. Co-written with Henghameh Saroukhani and Sarah Lawson Welsh. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 53: 1-2 (2022), 7-24. Link to article

• ‘“Black holes in the fabric of the nation”: Refugees in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West’. Journal for Cultural Research 23: 2 (2019), 187-201. Link to article

• ‘“He wished to defend a country that wasn’t his”: British Subjects and Servicemen in Andrea Levy’s Small Island and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth’. Long Shadows: The Second World War in British Literature and Film, 1943 to the present, ed. Petra Rau (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2016), 241-262. Link to book on publisher's website

• ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist, Eager Host? Cross-cultural Hospitality and Security Anxieties in Mohsin Hamid's Novel of Uncertainty’. Security and Hospitality: New Literary and Cultural Perspectives, eds Emily Ridge and Jeffrey Clapp (London: Routledge, 2015), 190-207. Link to chapter

• ‘The Enigma of Abandonment: Re-thinking the Importance of Hanif Kureishi’s Work for Multiculturalism’. Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, ed. Susan Alice Fischer (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 7-20. Link to book on publisher's website

• ‘Salman Rushdie’. Dictionary of Literary Biography 377: Twenty-first Century British Novelists, ed. Tom Ue (Farmington, MI: Gale, 2015), 258-283. Link to book on publisher's website

• ‘Monica Ali’. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Contemporary British and Irish Literature, eds Richard Bradford et al. (Wiley & Sons, 2020), 471-80. Link to piece

• ‘Lives of Pi: on Turning Booker Prizes into Academy Awards’. Anglophone Culture Across Centuries and Borders: Proceedings from an International Cultural Studies Conference, eds Pavlína Flajšarová and Jiří Flajšar (Olomouc: University of Palacky Press, 2015), 51-61. Link to piece

• ‘Existing in more than one plane of time: Memory and Narrative Form in Every Light in the House Burnin’’. Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, eds Jeannette Baxter and David James (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), 39-52. Link to book on publisher's website

• ‘“Fold the paper and pass it on”: Historical Silences and the Contrapuntal in Andrea Levy’s Fiction’. The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46: 1 (2010), 31-41. Link to article

• 'The Multicultural Bildungsroman: Stereotypes in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane’. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43: 3 (2008), 109-120. Link to article

As Editor:

• Co-editor, with Henghameh Saroukhani and Sarah Lawson Welsh, ‘In Memoriam: Andrea Levy Special Issue’. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 53: 1-2 (2022). Link to special issue

• Co-editor, with Bill Mayblin, of two pieces of posthumous work by Andrea Levy, both published in special Levy-themed double issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 53: 1-2 (2022):

  • • Levy, Andrea. ‘Selected Excerpts from The Adventures of Mrs Seacole (2012)’. 295-309. Link to piece

    • Levy, Andrea. ‘Two’. 313-15. Link to piece

Contributions to Reference Works

• ‘Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories’. The Literary Encyclopedia, 2016. Link to piece

• ‘Don DeLillo: Underworld’. The Literary Encyclopedia, 2012. Link to piece

  • ‘Andrea Levy’. The Literary Encyclopedia, 2009; updated 2020. Link to piece

  • 'Andrea Levy: The Long Song'. The Literary Encyclopedia, 2020.  Link to piece

  • ‘Andrea Levy: Small Island’. The Literary Encyclopedia, 2010. Link to piece

Selected Reviews:

• Review of Doble, Josh, Liburd, Liam J. and Parker, Emma (eds), British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration since 1945 (Manchester: MUP, 2023). The Journal of Postcolonial Writing (forthcoming).

• Review of Flajsavora, Pavlina, Diaspora in the Fiction of Andrea Levy (Olomouc: Palacky University, 2014). The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 51: 6 (2015), 752-753. Link to journal

• Review of Davison, Sarah, Modernist Literatures (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). The Literary London Journal 12: 1-2 (Spring/Autumn 2015). Link to piece

• Review of Sadikali, Tamim, Dear Infidel (London: Hansib, 2014). The Literary London Journal 12: 1-2 (Spring/Autumn 2015). Link to piece

• Review of Colombino, Laura, Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature: Writing Architecture and the Body (Oxford: Routledge, 2013). The Literary London Journal 10: 2 (Autumn 2013). Link to piece

Selected Other Writing:

• ‘The Death of an Author'. Co-written with Henghameh Saroukhani and Sarah Lawson Welsh. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 54: 1 (2023), 131-34. Link to piece

• ‘Introduction to Andrea Levy’s “Selected Excerpts from The Adventures of Mrs Seacole”’, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 53: 1-2 (2022), 293-294. Link to piece

• ‘More vital now than ever: My research on Andrea Levy’. Blog piece, LJMU website, 8 July 2020. Link to piece

• ‘Studying for a humanities PhD can make you feel cut off from humanity’, The Guardian Higher Education Network, 8 July 2014. Link to piece

• Contributor to ‘Finishing your PhD thesis: 15 top tips from those in the know’. The Guardian Higher Education Network, 27 August 2014. Link to piece

• ‘On Saving’ (short story), Mays 17, ed. Patti Smith (Cambridge: Varsity Publications, 2009), 127-131. Link to book on publisher's website