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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Deconstructing human-canine relations in Richard Adams’s The Plague Dogs	10
“In my own handwriting”: Phillis Wheatley and the problem of the creative commons	7
Audio description for the arts: a linguistic perspective	5
Slowing down earlier in the pandemic went Well – so why speed back up?	4
Translation, adaptation, and surtitling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest into Italian	4
Frames of violence: representations of Kashmiri subjectivities in our moon has blood clots and the night of broken glass	3
Performing feminist empathy in Claire Keegan’s Small Things like These (2021): from affective encounters to (cruel) optimism	3
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	2
Accessing Shakespearean drama through (re)translation and audiovisual adaptation in the twenty-first century	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	1
Multiple modes and meanings of gender, mobility, and migration: an Introduction	1
Female body shame, subjectivity, and community in Salman Rushdie’s Shame	1
The relevance of virality to the present	1
A panacea for nostalgia? The paradox of returning home in Dreaming in Cuban and An American Brat	1
Human-nonhuman boundaries and inter-creatural empathy in Klara and the Sun , Fifteen Dogs , the Wonder that Was Ours	1
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
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
Conrad’s presence in contemporary culture: adaptations and appropriations	1
In defence of residual humanism: disposability, stigma, and empathy in Saunders’s “The Semplica Girl Diaries”	1
Representing quarantine on film: fearing the monster inside	1
Accessibility, appropriation, and theatrical nationhood: minority Shakespeare(s) in Türkiye	1
Holding as ‘twere the mirror up to the text: modern English translations for accessible Shakespeare	1
The aesthetic violent sublime in The Picture of Dorian Gray	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
“A woman like me”: Adriana Páramo’s Looking for Esperanza , ethnographic writing, and the need for an intersectional approach to gender and mobility	0
Reading and writing race in law and literature	0
Hospitality and liminality in the time of the Anthropocene: Jenn Ashworth’s Fell	0
Capitalism and the politics of disease: then and now	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
The “applied poetics” of Instagram: the Greek Instapoetry landscape	0
Posthuman affect and the need for empathy in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams	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
Being beyond law: race and grammars of dis/possession in Black and Indigenous literatures	0
Triangulation: race, law, and literature	0
Empathy, response-ability, and decolonial love: learning ethics of relationality from Indigenous feminisms	0
Editorial: #Instapoetry’s vibrancy and ambivalence	0
EMI and professional teacher identity: a case study in the field of Economics	0
Challenging narratives of confinement: diasporic (im)mobilities in Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström’s In Every Mirror She’s Black (2021)	0
Powered modernity, contested space: literary modernism and the London tram	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
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
Die to live: Eliot, Schumpeter, and creative destruction in The Waste Land	0
Wasted lives and resistance in contemporary speculative TV: Orphan Black (2013–2017)	0
Cultures of empathy: introduction	0
The paradoxical rhetoric of colonialism: George Orwell’s “A Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant”	0
Gifting translation in early modern England: women writers and the politics of authorship	0
Cover(ing) migration: the visual narrativisation of flight, asylum, and security practices	0
Review of Serial Revolutions 1848: writing, politics, form	0
Spread the word: mattertext as bio-art	0
Going viral: chronotopes of disaster in film and media	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
Recent developments in romantic studies	0
Ambivalence and empathy	0
Reconciliation with the self through self-empathy in children’s fantasy fiction	0
Transfiguring spatial debilities in Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost (2023)	0
Estrangement at the church door: Silas Marner and the projection of new English spaces	0
Okan Bayülgen’s Richard : an intersemiotic translation and appropriation of Shakespeare’s Richard III	0
The Merchant of Venice in Shanghai: accessing Shakespeare in the late Qing and early Republican China	0
The freedom to be a black woman: automobility and black, female subjecthood in South African Literature	0
Acoustic limitrophies, or why Roald Dahl’s work sounds more serious than it seems	0
“Past, present, and future all at once”: the afterlives of slavery in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing	0
Reading transformations: from David Garnett’s Lady into Fox (1922) to Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox” (2013)	0
From vindication of doubt to subversion of truth: a pragmatic-stylistic analysis of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable	0
Civil rights lawyering and the reconstruction of law and literature	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
Virtual environments in the nineteenth century: the spectacle of old London	0
“Savage” masters: dehumanisation as a strategy to challenge White legal authority before the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act	0
Negotiating empathy in the art museum: ekphrastic inquiry as a historiographic tool	0
Kill is kiss: viral words bringing the end of rhetorical discourse in Pontypool	0
Art in contemporary Anglo-American fiction: The ekphrastic novel	0
Introduction: the place of race in law and literature	0

The space of the glazed window in nineteenth-century London	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
Caryl Phillips's interstitial poetics	0
Correction	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
Chasing ghosts: Omar El Akkad’s Wasteocentric novels	0
Canonising the other: deconstructing empathy in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood	0
A narratological approach to lists in detective fiction	0
Correction	0
Fractured belonging: diasporic subjectivities and gendered radicalisation in Tabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane	0
“Let Black Girls Be”: The (Insta)poetry of Upile Chisala and its resistance to coloniality of being	0
Colorblind tools: global technologies of racial power	0
J. M. Coetzee’s Foe in the light of Hayden White’s historiography	0
Translating tourism. Cross-linguistic differences of alternative worldviews	0
Root identity–relation identity in Inga Simpson’s Understory: a life with trees	0
Easy, hard, radical empathy: narrating dementia in film	0
Migration, modernity and transnationalism in the work of Joseph Conrad	0
Performing Persian poetics on Instagram: an interview with @barkhi_az_honarmandan	0
#indigenousauthor: locating Tenille Campbell’s erotic poetry, photography, and community-based arts beyond social media	0
Global Instapoetry	0
Vermin women’s stigmatisation, expendability, and posthuman resistance: studying femicide in India as wasted lives through Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape (	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
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
Genres of emergency: forms of crisis and continuity in Indian writing in English	0
On being “postnational” in English	0
The Elgar companion to the arts and global multiculturalism	0
“Lo vamos a conseguir”:Instapoetryas a vehicle for feminist movements in the contemporary Spanish context	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
Limitrophy in contemporary literatures in English	0
Arab intellectuals in the prism of postcolonial theory and praxis	0
East of Delhi: multilingual literary culture and world literature	0
The mind is all the animals it has attended: limitrophy and porous borders in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst	0
Do bodies matter? Wasted lives in contemporary literature and culture: an introduction	0
The twilight zone of digital literary studies (DLS): a European case study	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 posthuman body and gender dynamics in Ros Anderson’s The Hierarchies (2020)	0
Race as predicating law and literature and as simultaneous late arrival	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