OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of English Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Audio description for the arts: a linguistic perspective	14
Mary Seacole’s plant matter(s): vegetal entanglements of the Black Atlantic inWonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands	9
Deconstructing human-canine relations in Richard Adams’s The Plague Dogs	7
Memes, trolls and the manosphere: mapping the manifold expressions of antifeminism and misogyny online	5
Slowing down earlier in the pandemic went Well – so why speed back up?	4
“In my own handwriting”: Phillis Wheatley and the problem of the creative commons	4
Flawed arguments, structural misogyny and rape culture: court cases in contemporary literature	4
“And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute”: Donald Trump as patient zero and superspreader of Covid-19 cartoon logic	3
Performing feminist empathy in Claire Keegan’s Small Things like These (2021): from affective encounters to (cruel) optimism	3
A panacea for nostalgia? The paradox of returning home in Dreaming in Cuban and An American Brat	3
Frames of violence: representations of Kashmiri subjectivities in our moon has blood clots and the night of broken glass	3
Multiple modes and meanings of gender, mobility, and migration: an Introduction	2
Human-nonhuman boundaries and inter-creatural empathy in Klara and the Sun , Fifteen Dogs , the Wonder that Was Ours	2
In defence of residual humanism: disposability, stigma, and empathy in Saunders’s “The Semplica Girl Diaries”	2
Littoral books: archiving oceanic memory through pressed and printed plants	2
The relevance of virality to the present	1
Conrad’s presence in contemporary culture: adaptations and appropriations	1
Representing quarantine on film: fearing the monster inside	1
The unity of thought and thing: collapsing mind-matter boundaries in the poetry and prose of Constance Naden	1
#indigenousauthor: locating Tenille Campbell’s erotic poetry, photography, and community-based arts beyond social media	1
Introduction: Patriarchal backlashes to feminism in times of crisis: plus ça change, moins ça change	1
Female body shame, subjectivity, and community in Salman Rushdie’s Shame	1
The “applied poetics” of Instagram: the Greek Instapoetry landscape	1
“Past, present, and future all at once”: the afterlives of slavery in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing	1
Non-places of memory: interstitiality and the social function of space in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Ellen Wood’s Danesbury House	1

Dudbubs, cripsanretards and womanidols: strategic ennoblement of wasted bodies in Louise Katz’s The Orchid Nursery (2015)	1
EJES as a joyful practice in transversing the borders of the European and the limits of English Studies	1
Easy, hard, radical empathy: narrating dementia in film	1
Globalising genderphobia and the case of Bulgaria	1
Arab intellectuals in the prism of postcolonial theory and praxis	0
The unrealised potential of Robert Browning’s “Gold Hair: A Legend of Pornic”	0
The space of the glazed window in nineteenth-century London	0
“A woman like me”: Adriana Páramo’s Looking for Esperanza , ethnographic writing, and the need for an intersectional approach to gender and mobility	0
The paradoxical rhetoric of colonialism: George Orwell’s “A Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant”	0
Cultures of empathy: introduction	0
Reading transformations: from David Garnett’s Lady into Fox (1922) to Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox” (2013)	0
We need to talk about gender: anti-feminist, anti-gender backlash all’italiana	0
The posthuman body and gender dynamics in Ros Anderson’s The Hierarchies (2020)	0
Introduction: the place of race in law and literature	0
Spread the word: mattertext as bio-art	0
Hospitality and liminality in the time of the Anthropocene: Jenn Ashworth’s Fell	0
Negotiating empathy in the art museum: ekphrastic inquiry as a historiographic tool	0
Gritwork: globalised infrastructure and rogue geoengineering in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future and Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock	0
Ambivalence and empathy	0
Challenging narratives of confinement: diasporic (im)mobilities in Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström’s In Every Mirror She’s Black (2021)	0
Reconciliation with the self through self-empathy in children’s fantasy fiction	0
Transfiguring spatial debilities in Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (2023)	0
Die to live: Eliot, Schumpeter, and creative destruction in The Waste Land	0
Triangulation: race, law, and literature	0
Victorian materialisms: approaching nineteenth-century matter	0
Performing Persian poetics on Instagram: an interview with @barkhi_az_honarmandan	0
Wasted lives and resistance in contemporary speculative TV: Orphan Black (2013–2017)	0
Chasing ghosts: Omar El Akkad’s Wasteocentric novels	0
“Antifeminist ‘feminism’”: the case of French “decolonial intersectional feminism”	0
From vindication of doubt to subversion of truth: a pragmatic-stylistic analysis of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable	0
A note on Angela Merkel’s review of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and feminisms East-West	0
“I worried that I didn’t love nature in the right way”: gender, race, and other ways of seeing in contemporary landscape writing	0
Interstitial space and the Spiritualist séance: psychical geography, telephonic imaginary and social possibility in 1870s Britain	0
“Let Black Girls Be”: The (Insta)poetry of Upile Chisala and its resistance to coloniality of being	0
The freedom to be a black woman: automobility and black, female subjecthood in South African Literature	0
“Savage” masters: dehumanisation as a strategy to challenge White legal authority before the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act	0
Empathy, response-ability, and decolonial love: learning ethics of relationality from Indigenous feminisms	0
On being “postnational” in English	0
East of Delhi: multilingual literary culture and world literature	0
Migration, modernity and transnationalism in the work of Joseph Conrad	0
Translating tourism. Cross-linguistic differences of alternative worldviews	0
Experiencing textures: the materiality of illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins’s No Name	0
Editorial: #Instapoetry’s vibrancy and ambivalence	0
Do bodies matter? Wasted lives in contemporary literature and culture: an introduction	0
Cover(ing) migration: the visual narrativisation of flight, asylum, and security practices	0
Civil rights lawyering and the reconstruction of law and literature	0
Correction	0
Going viral: chronotopes of disaster in film and media	0
#Instapoetry in India: the aesthetic of the digital vernacular	0
Queer affects and discarded objects: urban life and its waste in Violette Leduc’s La Femme au petit renard (The Lady and the Little Fox Fur)	0

Fractured belonging: diasporic subjectivities and gendered radicalisation in Tabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane	0
“Lo vamos a conseguir”:Instapoetryas a vehicle for feminist movements in the contemporary Spanish context	0
Metaphors of confinement: the prison in fact, fiction, and fantasy Metaphors of confinement: the prison in fact, fiction, and fantasy , by Monika Fludernik, The Law and	0
J. M. Coetzee’s Foe in the light of Hayden White’s historiography	0
The mind is all the animals it has attended: limitrophy and porous borders in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst	0
Root identity–relation identity in Inga Simpson’s Understory: a life with trees	0
Correction	0
Wasted lives in a liquid modernity: the representation of migration in The Spinning Heart (2012) by Donal Ryan	0
“I’m not telling you a story so much as a shipwreck”: submerged legacies, diasporic kinship, and queerness in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous	0
Race as predicating law and literature and as simultaneous late arrival	0
Powered modernity, contested space: literary modernism and the London tram	0
Vermin women’s stigmatisation, expendability, and posthuman resistance: studying femicide in India as wasted lives through Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape (	0
The Nutmeg’s curse: parables for a planet in crisis The Nutmeg’s curse: parables for a planet in crisis , by Amitav Ghosh, India, Penguin Random House, 2021, 325 pp., IN	0
The dying city and the sick messiah: apocalypse and utopia in Neo Tokyo	0
Reading and writing race in law and literature	0
“Stimulated by these agents to vigorous action”: the language of suntanning and materiality of skin in Victorian culture	0
Capitalism and the politics of disease: then and now	0
Earthly intermundia: office space in the works of Charles Dickens	0
Colour bar forms in Sam Selvon’s Windrush novels	0
The aesthetic violent sublime in The Picture of Dorian Gray	0
#Feminist – naming controversies and celebrating points of connection and joy in current feminisms	0
Posthuman affect and the need for empathy in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams	0
Precarious times, Neoliberalist backlashes and discourses of post-truth in Ali Smith’s Summer	0
Caryl Phillips's interstitial poetics	0
Familial feeling: entangled tonalities in early Black Atlantic writing and the rise of the British novel	0
Spheres within spheres: nineteenth-century interstitial spaces and Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (2013)	0
The twilight zone of digital literary studies (DLS): a European case study	0
Being beyond law: race and grammars of dis/possession in Black and Indigenous literatures	0
Canonising the other: deconstructing empathy in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood	0
Wasted humanity and nonhuman materiality in Cynan Jones’s Everything I Found on the Beach	0
Genres of emergency: forms of crisis and continuity in Indian writing in English	0
Recent developments in romantic studies	0
Gender roles, parenthood, and the ethics of care in pandemic media narratives pre- and post-Covid-19	0
Limitrophy in contemporary literatures in English	0
“The shadow of another land”: multiple belongings and nomadic subjectivity in The Island of Missing Trees	0
The media ecologies of Norwegian instapoet Trygve Skaug: tracing the post-digital circulation process of (insta)poetry through participatory-made Instagram archives	0
Estrangement at the church door: Silas Marner and the projection of new English spaces	0
Acoustic limitrophies, or why Roald Dahl’s work sounds more serious than it seems	0
George Saunders and the ethics of science: a close reading of “Escape from Spiderhead”	0
Review of Serial Revolutions 1848: writing, politics, form	0
Virtual environments in the nineteenth century: the spectacle of old London	0
A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries A greeting of the spirit: selected poetry of John Keats with commentaries , by Susan J. Wolfson	0
When nature “punches back”: a new materialist reading of Alice Perrin’sEast of Suez	0
Kill is kiss: viral words bringing the end of rhetorical discourse in Pontypool	0
Colorblind tools: global technologies of racial power	0
The horror of radicalism: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
Global Instapoetry	0
EMI and professional teacher identity: a case study in the field of Economics	0