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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Audio description for the arts: a linguistic perspective	16
Deconstructing human-canine relations in Richard Adams’s The Plague Dogs	9
“In my own handwriting”: Phillis Wheatley and the problem of the creative commons	8
Memes, trolls and the manosphere: mapping the manifold expressions of antifeminism and misogyny online	7
Translation, adaptation, and surtitling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest into Italian	5
Flawed arguments, structural misogyny and rape culture: court cases in contemporary literature	4
Slowing down earlier in the pandemic went Well – so why speed back up?	4
Frames of violence: representations of Kashmiri subjectivities in our moon has blood clots and the night of broken glass	4
Digital dreams of cultural accessibility: the inclusive potential of online translations of Shakespearean comedy exemplified by digital RSC productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dr	3
Performing feminist empathy in Claire Keegan’s Small Things like These (2021): from affective encounters to (cruel) optimism	3
Human-nonhuman boundaries and inter-creatural empathy in Klara and the Sun , Fifteen Dogs , the Wonder that Was Ours	2
A panacea for nostalgia? The paradox of returning home in Dreaming in Cuban and An American Brat	2
“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	2
In defence of residual humanism: disposability, stigma, and empathy in Saunders’s “The Semplica Girl Diaries”	2
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
Representing quarantine on film: fearing the monster inside	1
“A woman like me”: Adriana Páramo’s Looking for Esperanza , ethnographic writing, and the need for an intersectional approach to gender and mobility	1
Introduction: Patriarchal backlashes to feminism in times of crisis: plus ça change, moins ça change	1
Holding as ‘twere the mirror up to the text: modern English translations for accessible Shakespeare	1
The “applied poetics” of Instagram: the Greek Instapoetry landscape	1
Easy, hard, radical empathy: narrating dementia in film	1
The relevance of virality to the present	1
Conrad’s presence in contemporary culture: adaptations and appropriations	1
Multiple modes and meanings of gender, mobility, and migration: an Introduction	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
“Past, present, and future all at once”: the afterlives of slavery in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing	1
Female body shame, subjectivity, and community in Salman Rushdie’s Shame	1
Reading transformations: from David Garnett’s Lady into Fox (1922) to Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox” (2013)	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
Challenging narratives of confinement: diasporic (im)mobilities in Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström’s In Every Mirror She’s Black (2021)	0
On being “postnational” in English	0
Civil rights lawyering and the reconstruction of law and literature	0
Vermin women’s stigmatisation, expendability, and posthuman resistance: studying femicide in India as wasted lives through Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape (	0
“If music be the food of love, caption on!”: captioning music for the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Shakespeare’s plays on VOD platforms	0
Kill is kiss: viral words bringing the end of rhetorical discourse in Pontypool	0
Reading and writing race in law and literature	0
Die to live: Eliot, Schumpeter, and creative destruction in The Waste Land	0
The freedom to be a black woman: automobility and black, female subjecthood in South African Literature	0
Earthly intermundia: office space in the works of Charles Dickens	0
Translating tourism. Cross-linguistic differences of alternative worldviews	0
#Feminist – naming controversies and celebrating points of connection and joy in current feminisms	0
George Saunders and the ethics of science: a close reading of “Escape from Spiderhead”	0
We need to talk about gender: anti-feminist, anti-gender backlash all’italiana	0
The twilight zone of digital literary studies (DLS): a European case study	0
Review of Serial Revolutions 1848: writing, politics, form	0
Canonising the other: deconstructing empathy in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood	0
Hospitality and liminality in the time of the Anthropocene: Jenn Ashworth’s Fell	0
A note on Angela Merkel’s review of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and feminisms East-West	0
A narratological approach to lists in detective fiction	0
The horror of radicalism: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
Correction	0
Fractured belonging: diasporic subjectivities and gendered radicalisation in Tabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane	0
The aesthetic violent sublime in The Picture of Dorian Gray	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
Okan Bayülgen’s Richard : an intersemiotic translation and appropriation of Shakespeare’s Richard III	0
Triangulation: race, law, and literature	0
Migration, modernity and transnationalism in the work of Joseph Conrad	0
Acoustic limitrophies, or why Roald Dahl’s work sounds more serious than it seems	0
#Instapoetry in India: the aesthetic of the digital vernacular	0
Familial feeling: entangled tonalities in early Black Atlantic writing and the rise of the British novel	0
Being beyond law: race and grammars of dis/possession in Black and Indigenous literatures	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
Negotiating empathy in the art museum: ekphrastic inquiry as a historiographic tool	0
“Antifeminist ‘feminism’”: the case of French “decolonial intersectional feminism”	0
Colour bar forms in Sam Selvon’s Windrush novels	0
“The shadow of another land”: multiple belongings and nomadic subjectivity in The Island of Missing Trees	0
Art in contemporary Anglo-American fiction: The ekphrastic novel	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
“Savage” masters: dehumanisation as a strategy to challenge White legal authority before the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act	0
The mind is all the animals it has attended: limitrophy and porous borders in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst	0
Global Instapoetry	0
The space of the glazed window in nineteenth-century London	0
Wasted lives and resistance in contemporary speculative TV: Orphan Black (2013–2017)	0

Cultures of empathy: introduction	0
Correction	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
Chasing ghosts: Omar El Akkad’s Wasteocentric novels	0
Gritwork: globalised infrastructure and rogue geoengineering in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future and Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock	0
The posthuman body and gender dynamics in Ros Anderson’s The Hierarchies (2020)	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
Wasted humanity and nonhuman materiality in Cynan Jones’s Everything I Found on the Beach	0
Arab intellectuals in the prism of postcolonial theory and praxis	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
Gender roles, parenthood, and the ethics of care in pandemic media narratives pre- and post-Covid-19	0
Empathy, response-ability, and decolonial love: learning ethics of relationality from Indigenous feminisms	0
Precarious times, Neoliberalist backlashes and discourses of post-truth in Ali Smith’s Summer	0
EMI and professional teacher identity: a case study in the field of Economics	0
#indigenousauthor: locating Tenille Campbell’s erotic poetry, photography, and community-based arts beyond social media	0
The Merchant of Venice in Shanghai: accessing Shakespeare in the late Qing and early Republican China	0
Posthuman affect and the need for empathy in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams	0
Performing Persian poetics on Instagram: an interview with @barkhi_az_honarmandan	0
Genres of emergency: forms of crisis and continuity in Indian writing in English	0
Virtual environments in the nineteenth century: the spectacle of old London	0
Introduction: the place of race in law and literature	0
From vindication of doubt to subversion of truth: a pragmatic-stylistic analysis of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable	0
“Lo vamos a conseguir”:Instapoetryas a vehicle for feminist movements in the contemporary Spanish context	0
Powered modernity, contested space: literary modernism and the London tram	0
Reconciliation with the self through self-empathy in children’s fantasy fiction	0
Limitrophy in contemporary literatures in English	0
The dying city and the sick messiah: apocalypse and utopia in Neo Tokyo	0
Interstitial space and the Spiritualist séance: psychical geography, telephonic imaginary and social possibility in 1870s Britain	0
Editorial: #Instapoetry’s vibrancy and ambivalence	0
East of Delhi: multilingual literary culture and world literature	0
Estrangement at the church door: Silas Marner and the projection of new English spaces	0
The Elgar companion to the arts and global multiculturalism	0
Caryl Phillips's interstitial poetics	0
Wasted lives in a liquid modernity: the representation of migration in The Spinning Heart (2012) by Donal Ryan	0
Spheres within spheres: nineteenth-century interstitial spaces and Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (2013)	0
The media ecologies of Norwegian instapoet Trygve Skaug: tracing the post-digital circulation process of (insta)poetry through participatory-made Instagram archives	0
Race as predicating law and literature and as simultaneous late arrival	0
Going viral: chronotopes of disaster in film and media	0
“Let Black Girls Be”: The (Insta)poetry of Upile Chisala and its resistance to coloniality of being	0
Recent developments in romantic studies	0
Ambivalence and empathy	0
The paradoxical rhetoric of colonialism: George Orwell’s “A Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant”	0
Spread the word: mattertext as bio-art	0
Transfiguring spatial debilities in Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (2023)	0
Capitalism and the politics of disease: then and now	0
Colorblind tools: global technologies of racial power	0
Globalising genderphobia and the case of Bulgaria	0
Root identity–relation identity in Inga Simpson’s Understory: a life with trees	0