OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

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	6
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
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
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
The “applied poetics” of Instagram: the Greek Instapoetry landscape	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
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
Conrad’s presence in contemporary culture: adaptations and appropriations	1
The relevance of virality to the present	1
Easy, hard, radical empathy: narrating dementia in film	1
Representing quarantine on film: fearing the monster inside	1

EJES as a joyful practice in transversing the borders of the European and the limits of English Studies	1
Limitrophy in contemporary literatures in English	0
Posthuman affect and the need for empathy in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams	0
Root identity–relation identity in Inga Simpson’s Understory: a life with trees	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
Estrangement at the church door: Silas Marner and the projection of new English spaces	0
Editorial: #Instapoetry’s vibrancy and ambivalence	0
The aesthetic violent sublime in The Picture of Dorian Gray	0
Victorian materialisms: approaching nineteenth-century matter	0
Powered modernity, contested space: literary modernism and the London tram	0
J. M. Coetzee’s Foe in the light of Hayden White’s historiography	0
Review of Serial Revolutions 1848: writing, politics, form	0
The dying city and the sick messiah: apocalypse and utopia in Neo Tokyo	0
Earthly intermundia: office space in the works of Charles Dickens	0
A note on Angela Merkel’s review of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and feminisms East-West	0
#Feminist – naming controversies and celebrating points of connection and joy in current feminisms	0
Race as predicating law and literature and as simultaneous late arrival	0
Virtual environments in the nineteenth century: the spectacle of old London	0
The twilight zone of digital literary studies (DLS): a European case study	0
Capitalism and the politics of disease: then and now	0
Translating tourism. Cross-linguistic differences of alternative worldviews	0
Cover(ing) migration: the visual narrativisation of flight, asylum, and security practices	0
Do bodies matter? Wasted lives in contemporary literature and culture: an introduction	0
Going viral: chronotopes of disaster in film and media	0
Spread the word: mattertext as bio-art	0
Gender roles, parenthood, and the ethics of care in pandemic media narratives pre- and post-Covid-19	0
#Instapoetry in India: the aesthetic of the digital vernacular	0
Gritwork: globalised infrastructure and rogue geoengineering in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future and Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock	0
George Saunders and the ethics of science: a close reading of “Escape from Spiderhead”	0
Colorblind tools: global technologies of racial power	0
Die to live: Eliot, Schumpeter, and creative destruction in The Waste Land	0
Reading transformations: from David Garnett’s Lady into Fox (1922) to Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox” (2013)	0
Acoustic limitrophies, or why Roald Dahl’s work sounds more serious than it seems	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
Wasted lives and resistance in contemporary speculative TV: Orphan Black (2013–2017)	0
On being “postnational” in English	0
Interstitial space and the Spiritualist séance: psychical geography, telephonic imaginary and social possibility in 1870s Britain	0
Wasted lives in a liquid modernity: the representation of migration in The Spinning Heart (2012) by Donal Ryan	0
Kill is kiss: viral words bringing the end of rhetorical discourse in Pontypool	0
EMI and professional teacher identity: a case study in the field of Economics	0
Chasing ghosts: Omar El Akkad’s Wasteocentric novels	0
The freedom to be a black woman: automobility and black, female subjecthood in South African Literature	0
The space of the glazed window in nineteenth-century London	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
Cultures of empathy: introduction	0
“Let Black Girls Be”: The (Insta)poetry of Upile Chisala and its resistance to coloniality of being	0
Arab intellectuals in the prism of postcolonial theory and praxis	0
The posthuman body and gender dynamics in Ros Anderson’s The Hierarchies (2020)	0

#indigenousauthor: locating Tenille Campbell’s erotic poetry, photography, and community-based arts beyond social media	0
Precarious times, Neoliberalist backlashes and discourses of post-truth in Ali Smith’s Summer	0
The media ecologies of Norwegian instapoet Trygve Skaug: tracing the post-digital circulation process of (insta)poetry through participatory-made Instagram archives	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
Wasted humanity and nonhuman materiality in Cynan Jones’s Everything I Found on the Beach	0
Correction	0
Transfiguring spatial debilities in Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (2023)	0
Empathy, response-ability, and decolonial love: learning ethics of relationality from Indigenous feminisms	0
Reconciliation with the self through self-empathy in children’s fantasy fiction	0
Challenging narratives of confinement: diasporic (im)mobilities in Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström’s In Every Mirror She’s Black (2021)	0
Migration, modernity and transnationalism in the work of Joseph Conrad	0
Reading and writing race in law and literature	0
Familial feeling: entangled tonalities in early Black Atlantic writing and the rise of the British novel	0
Performing Persian poetics on Instagram: an interview with @barkhi_az_honarmandan	0
The mind is all the animals it has attended: limitrophy and porous borders in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst	0
The unrealised potential of Robert Browning’s “Gold Hair: A Legend of Pornic”	0
Vermin women’s stigmatisation, expendability, and posthuman resistance: studying femicide in India as wasted lives through Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape (2008) and	0
Negotiating empathy in the art museum: ekphrastic inquiry as a historiographic tool	0
“Antifeminist ‘feminism’”: the case of French “decolonial intersectional feminism”	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
“Stimulated by these agents to vigorous action”: the language of suntanning and materiality of skin in Victorian culture	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
“The shadow of another land”: multiple belongings and nomadic subjectivity in The Island of Missing Trees	0
When nature “punches back”: a new materialist reading of Alice Perrin’sEast of Suez	0
Global Instapoetry	0
East of Delhi: multilingual literary culture and world literature	0
The horror of radicalism: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad	0
Experiencing textures: the materiality of illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins’s No Name	0
“Lo vamos a conseguir”:Instapoetryas a vehicle for feminist movements in the contemporary Spanish context	0
The paradoxical rhetoric of colonialism: George Orwell’s “A Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant”	0
Caryl Phillips's interstitial poetics	0
Globalising genderphobia and the case of Bulgaria	0
We need to talk about gender: anti-feminist, anti-gender backlash all’italiana	0
Hospitality and liminality in the time of the Anthropocene: Jenn Ashworth’s Fell	0
Spheres within spheres: nineteenth-century interstitial spaces and Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (2013)	0
Ambivalence and empathy	0
Canonising the other: deconstructing empathy in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood	0
Genres of emergency: forms of crisis and continuity in Indian writing in English	0
Recent developments in romantic studies	0