- Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Historian, The Open University
Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English and Director of the Postcolonial Literatures Research Group at the OU.
He studied for his doctorate in South Asian Literature in English at the University of Leeds and taught at the University of York before joining the Open University in 2011. Alex has published on South Asian literary history, contemporary fiction and nineteenth-century colonial representations of India, and was editor of the Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 10., covering South and Southeast Asia.
Alex is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow, working on a book project: City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship.
Experience
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2011–presentSenior Lecturer, Open University
Education
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University of Leeds , PhD
Publications
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2020Delhi: New Writing on the Megacity (co-edited with Ruvani Ranasinha) ,
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2019The Oxford History of the Novel in English Volume 10, The Novel in South and South-East Asia since 1945,
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2012Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947 ,
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2007Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things ,
Grants and Contracts
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2022City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship
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- P-I
- Funding Source:
- The Leverhulme Trust
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