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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Memes, trolls and the manosphere: mapping the manifold expressions of antifeminism and misogyny online	15
Mary Seacole’s plant matter(s): vegetal entanglements of the Black Atlantic inWonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands	13
Deconstructing human-canine relations in Richard Adams’s The Plague Dogs	7
Flawed arguments, structural misogyny and rape culture: court cases in contemporary literature	6
Slowing down earlier in the pandemic went Well – so why speed back up?	6
Frames of violence: representations of Kashmiri subjectivities in our moon has blood clots and the night of broken glass	4
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	2
University research blogs: constructing identity through language and images	2
Representing academic identities in email: content and structure of Automatic Signatures	2
Littoral books: archiving oceanic memory through pressed and printed plants	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
Human-nonhuman boundaries and inter-creatural empathy in Klara and the Sun , Fifteen Dogs , the Wonder that Was Ours	2
Introduction: Patriarchal backlashes to feminism in times of crisis: plus ça change, moins ça change	1
The relevance of virality to the present	1
The “applied poetics” of Instagram: the Greek Instapoetry landscape	1
Globalising genderphobia and the case of Bulgaria	1
In defence of residual humanism: disposability, stigma, and empathy in Saunders’s “The Semplica Girl Diaries”	1
Disseminating knowledge: the effects of digitalised academic discourse on language, genre and identity	1
Representing quarantine on film: fearing the monster inside	1
“Past, present, and future all at once”: the afterlives of slavery in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing	1
Migration, modernity and transnationalism in the work of Joseph Conrad	1
Dudbubs, cripsanretards and womanidols: strategic ennoblement of wasted bodies in Louise Katz’s The Orchid Nursery (2015)	1
Female body shame, subjectivity, and community in Salman Rushdie’s Shame	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
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
Gritwork: globalised infrastructure and rogue geoengineering in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future and Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock	0
When nature “punches back”: a new materialist reading of Alice Perrin’sEast of Suez	0
Colorblind tools: global technologies of racial power	0
“Lo vamos a conseguir”:Instapoetryas a vehicle for feminist movements in the contemporary Spanish context	0
Acoustic limitrophies, or why Roald Dahl’s work sounds more serious than it seems	0
Editorial: #Instapoetry’s vibrancy and ambivalence	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
Managing discipline and culture-specific knowledge for digitalised, open-access academic discourse: interactive metadiscourse in economics and law research articles	0
Powered modernity, contested space: literary modernism and the London tram	0
Cultures of empathy: introduction	0
Kill is kiss: viral words bringing the end of rhetorical discourse in Pontypool	0
Caryl Phillips's interstitial poetics	0
Estrangement at the church door: Silas Marner and the projection of new English spaces	0
Capitalism and the politics of disease: then and now	0
Hospitality and liminality in the time of the Anthropocene: Jenn Ashworth’s Fell	0
The paradoxical rhetoric of colonialism: George Orwell’s “A Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant”	0
Empathy, response-ability, and decolonial love: learning ethics of relationality from Indigenous feminisms	0
Wasted humanity and nonhuman materiality in Cynan Jones’s Everything I Found on the Beach	0
Wasted lives in a liquid modernity: the representation of migration in The Spinning Heart (2012) by Donal Ryan	0
Wasted lives and resistance in contemporary speculative TV: Orphan Black (2013–2017)	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
Spheres within spheres: nineteenth-century interstitial spaces and Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (2013)	0
J. M. Coetzee’s Foe in the light of Hayden White’s historiography	0
“Let Black Girls Be”: The (Insta)poetry of Upile Chisala and its resistance to coloniality of being	0
Correction	0
Arab intellectuals in the prism of postcolonial theory and praxis	0
We need to talk about gender: anti-feminist, anti-gender backlash all’italiana	0
#Feminist – naming controversies and celebrating points of connection and joy in current feminisms	0
Root identity–relation identity in Inga Simpson’s Understory: a life with trees	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
Virtual environments in the nineteenth century: the spectacle of old London	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
Reconciliation with the self through self-empathy in children’s fantasy fiction	0
On being “postnational” in English	0
The media ecologies of Norwegian instapoet Trygve Skaug: tracing the post-digital circulation process of (insta)poetry through participatory-made Instagram archives	0
The dying city and the sick messiah: apocalypse and utopia in Neo Tokyo	0
Cover(ing) migration: the visual narrativisation of flight, asylum, and security practices	0
Victorian materialisms: approaching nineteenth-century matter	0
The unrealised potential of Robert Browning’s “Gold Hair: A Legend of Pornic”	0
The twilight zone of digital literary studies (DLS): a European case study	0
How does digital context influence interaction in large live online lectures? The case of English-medium instruction	0
Medical video abstracts and their subgenres: a phase-based approach to the detection of generic structure patterns	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
Gender roles, parenthood, and the ethics of care in pandemic media narratives pre- and post-Covid-19	0
A note on Angela Merkel’s review of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and feminisms East-West	0

Spread the word: mattertext as bio-art	0
A window to the world: visual design and research visibility of European research projects’ homepages	0
Canonising the other: deconstructing empathy in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood	0
The aesthetic violent sublime in The Picture of Dorian Gray	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
Limitrophy in contemporary literatures in English	0
Earthly intermundia: office space in the works of Charles Dickens	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
“Antifeminist ‘feminism’”: the case of French “decolonial intersectional feminism”	0
Precarious times, Neoliberalist backlashes and discourses of post-truth in Ali Smith’s Summer	0
Interstitial space and the Spiritualist séance: psychical geography, telephonic imaginary and social possibility in 1870s Britain	0
George Saunders and the ethics of science: a close reading of “Escape from Spiderhead”	0
Experiencing textures: the materiality of illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins’s No Name	0
From vindication of doubt to subversion of truth: a pragmatic-stylistic analysis of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable	0
Global Instapoetry	0
The posthuman body and gender dynamics in Ros Anderson’s The Hierarchies (2020)	0
The mind is all the animals it has attended: limitrophy and porous borders in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst	0
Negotiating empathy in the art museum: ekphrastic inquiry as a historiographic tool	0
Going viral: chronotopes of disaster in film and media	0
Chasing ghosts: Omar El Akkad’s Wasteocentric novels	0
East of Delhi: multilingual literary culture and world literature	0
“Stimulated by these agents to vigorous action”: the language of suntanning and materiality of skin in Victorian culture	0
Multimodal metadiscourse in digital academic journals on linguistics, engineering and medicine	0
EMI and professional teacher identity: a case study in the field of Economics	0
The horror of radicalism: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
‘In this post, I argue that…’: constructing argumentative discourse in scholarly law blog posts	0