Dr Roxanne Douglas
Roxanne is a Teaching Fellow for the English and Comparative Literary Studies Department for 2026/27. In 2024-2026 she was a Pathways to Knowledge Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, where she worked on her second monograph project, It's the End of the World As She Knows It, which uses the motley crew and overwhelming ships as a frame for a world-literary reading women's apocalyptic writing from across the world .
Her research adjoins feminist materialisms with genre and world-literary studies, primarily in the gothic, horror, the weird, and science fiction.
Teaching 2026/27
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Women in World-Literature
Roxanne was the co-organiser of the Women in World(-)Literature conference in 2022 with Dr Fiona Farnsworth, which asked 'in 鈥渁 singular modernity, combined and uneven鈥�, what is specific about women鈥檚 experiences; and how are these specificities registered in world(-)literature?'. Since then, Roxanne has led a special issue on , the journal's first special issue dedicated to literary studies; alongside an edited collection, Women in World-Literature, which will be published by Liverpool University Press in 2027.
The follow up conference, 'Women in World-Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion', Link opens in a new window focused on how the ecological and health impacts of the world-system are implicated by gender. An edited collection of the same name is under contract with Liverpool University Press.
Roxanne now chairs the . You can sign up to the Network's newsletter .
Selected publications
Feminist Gothic, Critical Irrealism and Arab Women鈥檚 World-Literature: 鈥楲iving with Ghosts鈥� - Palgrave Macmillan's 鈥楴ew Comparisons in World Literature鈥� series is .
Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media. Edited collection,
Co-editor alongside Giulia Champion and Stephen Shapiro.
'Scheherazade and Bluebeard: Transnational Gothics and Bloody Chambers in Arab Women鈥檚 Writing'. Chapter for . Edited by Rebecca Duncan and Rebekah Cumpsty. Cambridge University Press.
Women in World-Literature: A Woman鈥檚 Work
Special journal issue for Journal of World-Systems Research. Spring/Summer 2024 Issue. Editor, and author of two papers:
鈥楢 Woman鈥檚 Work: Making Something Out of Nothing - Introduction to the Special Issue鈥� doi 10.5195/JWSR.2024.1232
鈥楢 Woman鈥檚 Work is Never Done: Exhaustion and Alienation - A Concluding Coda鈥� doi 10.5195/JWSR.2024.1239.
S/oil: the Energetic Potential of the Dead in Arab Women鈥檚 Petrogothic Writing. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. May 2026. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2026.2663346
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