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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Memes, trolls and the manosphere: mapping the manifold expressions of antifeminism and misogyny online	14
Mary Seacole’s plant matter(s): vegetal entanglements of the Black Atlantic inWonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands	6
Deconstructing human-canine relations in Richard Adams’s The Plague Dogs	4
Frames of violence: representations of Kashmiri subjectivities in our moon has blood clots and the night of broken glass	3
Flawed arguments, structural misogyny and rape culture: court cases in contemporary literature	3
Slowing down earlier in the pandemic went Well – so why speed back up?	3
In defence of residual humanism: disposability, stigma, and empathy in Saunders’s “The Semplica Girl Diaries”	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
Littoral books: archiving oceanic memory through pressed and printed plants	2
A panacea for nostalgia? The paradox of returning home in Dreaming in Cuban and An American Brat	2
Human-nonhuman boundaries and inter-creatural empathy in Klara and the Sun , Fifteen Dogs , the Wonder that Was Ours	2
Performing feminist empathy in Claire Keegan’s Small Things like These (2021): from affective encounters to (cruel) optimism	2
Female body shame, subjectivity, and community in Salman Rushdie’s Shame	1
Representing quarantine on film: fearing the monster inside	1
The “applied poetics” of Instagram: the Greek Instapoetry landscape	1
The relevance of virality to the present	1
EJES as a joyful practice in transversing the borders of the European and the limits of English Studies	1
The unity of thought and thing: collapsing mind-matter boundaries in the poetry and prose of Constance Naden	1
“Past, present, and future all at once”: the afterlives of slavery in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing	1
Dudbubs, cripsanretards and womanidols: strategic ennoblement of wasted bodies in Louise Katz’s The Orchid Nursery (2015)	1
Introduction: Patriarchal backlashes to feminism in times of crisis: plus ça change, moins ça change	1
Easy, hard, radical empathy: narrating dementia in film	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
Spheres within spheres: nineteenth-century interstitial spaces and Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (2013)	0
A note on Angela Merkel’s review of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and feminisms East-West	0

Wasted humanity and nonhuman materiality in Cynan Jones’s Everything I Found on the Beach	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
Canonising the other: deconstructing empathy in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood	0
J. M. Coetzee’s Foe in the light of Hayden White’s historiography	0
Negotiating empathy in the art museum: ekphrastic inquiry as a historiographic tool	0
Recent developments in romantic studies	0
#indigenousauthor: locating Tenille Campbell’s erotic poetry, photography, and community-based arts beyond social media	0
Root identity–relation identity in Inga Simpson’s Understory: a life with trees	0
Reading transformations: from David Garnett’s Lady into Fox (1922) to Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox” (2013)	0
#Instapoetry in India: the aesthetic of the digital vernacular	0
Introduction: the place of race in law and literature	0
The aesthetic violent sublime in The Picture of Dorian Gray	0
On being “postnational” in English	0
George Saunders and the ethics of science: a close reading of “Escape from Spiderhead”	0
EMI and professional teacher identity: a case study in the field of Economics	0
The mind is all the animals it has attended: limitrophy and porous borders in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst	0
#Feminist – naming controversies and celebrating points of connection and joy in current feminisms	0
Kill is kiss: viral words bringing the end of rhetorical discourse in Pontypool	0
Wasted lives and resistance in contemporary speculative TV: Orphan Black (2013–2017)	0
The media ecologies of Norwegian instapoet Trygve Skaug: tracing the post-digital circulation process of (insta)poetry through participatory-made Instagram archives	0
Capitalism and the politics of disease: then and now	0
“Stimulated by these agents to vigorous action”: the language of suntanning and materiality of skin in Victorian culture	0
The posthuman body and gender dynamics in Ros Anderson’s The Hierarchies (2020)	0
The paradoxical rhetoric of colonialism: George Orwell’s “A Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant”	0
Hospitality and liminality in the time of the Anthropocene: Jenn Ashworth’s Fell	0
Do bodies matter? Wasted lives in contemporary literature and culture: an introduction	0
When nature “punches back”: a new materialist reading of Alice Perrin’sEast of Suez	0
Spread the word: mattertext as bio-art	0
Ambivalence and empathy	0
Wasted lives in a liquid modernity: the representation of migration in The Spinning Heart (2012) by Donal Ryan	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 unrealised potential of Robert Browning’s “Gold Hair: A Legend of Pornic”	0
Colorblind tools: global technologies of racial power	0
Migration, modernity and transnationalism in the work of Joseph Conrad	0
Performing Persian poetics on Instagram: an interview with @barkhi_az_honarmandan	0
Familial feeling: entangled tonalities in early Black Atlantic writing and the rise of the British novel	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
“Lo vamos a conseguir”:Instapoetryas a vehicle for feminist movements in the contemporary Spanish context	0
Vermin women’s stigmatisation, expendability, and posthuman resistance: studying femicide in India as wasted lives through Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape (2008) and	0
Reconciliation with the self through self-empathy in children’s fantasy fiction	0
Limitrophy in contemporary literatures in English	0
Interstitial space and the Spiritualist séance: psychical geography, telephonic imaginary and social possibility in 1870s Britain	0
“Antifeminist ‘feminism’”: the case of French “decolonial intersectional feminism”	0
Estrangement at the church door: Silas Marner and the projection of new English spaces	0
East of Delhi: multilingual literary culture and world literature	0
The dying city and the sick messiah: apocalypse and utopia in Neo Tokyo	0
Empathy, response-ability, and decolonial love: learning ethics of relationality from Indigenous feminisms	0
Experiencing textures: the materiality of illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins’s No Name	0
Virtual environments in the nineteenth century: the spectacle of old London	0
Review of Serial Revolutions 1848: writing, politics, form	0

Caryl Phillips's interstitial poetics	0
Earthly intermundia: office space in the works of Charles Dickens	0
Going viral: chronotopes of disaster in film and media	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
“Let Black Girls Be”: The (Insta)poetry of Upile Chisala and its resistance to coloniality of being	0
Correction	0
Gender roles, parenthood, and the ethics of care in pandemic media narratives pre- and post-Covid-19	0
The horror of radicalism: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
Precarious times, Neoliberalist backlashes and discourses of post-truth in Ali Smith’s Summer	0
Globalising genderphobia and the case of Bulgaria	0
Reading and writing race in law and literature	0
Posthuman affect and the need for empathy in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams	0
Acoustic limitrophies, or why Roald Dahl’s work sounds more serious than it seems	0
Being beyond law: race and grammars of dis/possession in Black and Indigenous literatures	0
From vindication of doubt to subversion of truth: a pragmatic-stylistic analysis of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable	0
Editorial: #Instapoetry’s vibrancy and ambivalence	0
Genres of emergency: forms of crisis and continuity in Indian writing in English	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
Die to live: Eliot, Schumpeter, and creative destruction in The Waste Land	0
The space of the glazed window in nineteenth-century London	0
Powered modernity, contested space: literary modernism and the London tram	0
Victorian materialisms: approaching nineteenth-century matter	0
Cultures of empathy: introduction	0
Global Instapoetry	0
Race as predicating law and literature and as simultaneous late arrival	0
The twilight zone of digital literary studies (DLS): a European case study	0
Arab intellectuals in the prism of postcolonial theory and praxis	0
Chasing ghosts: Omar El Akkad’s Wasteocentric novels	0
Cover(ing) migration: the visual narrativisation of flight, asylum, and security practices	0
We need to talk about gender: anti-feminist, anti-gender backlash all’italiana	0