Professor Elleke Boehmer
Professor of World Literature in English; Fellow of Wolfson College
About
Professor Boehmer's research focuses on questions of migration, identity and resistance in both post-colonial literature and writing of the colonial period, in particular of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
She was a Man Booker International Prize Judge for 2013-2015, and is Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College.
Expertise
- World and international literature in English, including the writers Salman Rushdie, JM Coetzee, Chinua Achebe, Arundhati Roy, Les Murray, and Alice Munro
- Empire, globalisation, and masculinity in modern writing
- Nobel, Man Booker, and other prizes in literature
- Migration and diaspora
- Postcolonial theory
Selected publications
Media experience
Professor Boehmer has experience of working the media.