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Global Literature and the Environment (2024)
Book
Whittle, M., & Munslow Ong, J. (in press). Global Literature and the Environment. London and New York: Routledge

Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of imperialist-c... Read More about Global Literature and the Environment.

‘Make them roll in their graves’: South African Writing, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level (2024)
Journal Article
Helm, H., Barnes, E., Barnes, K., & Munslow Ong, J. (2024). ‘Make them roll in their graves’: South African Writing, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level. English in Education, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2024.2312189

This article analyses the activities and early outcomes of an ongoing co-designed and co-delivered research impact project entitled ‘Decolonising the English Literature A-Level’. It draws on examples from three case studies, classroom experiences, an... Read More about ‘Make them roll in their graves’: South African Writing, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level.

Olive Schreiner in the World: An Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
Munslow Ong, J., & Van der Vlies, A. (2023). Olive Schreiner in the World: An Introduction. In J. Munslow Ong, & A. Van der Vlies (Eds.), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Olive Schreiner in the World: An Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
Munslow Ong, J., & Van der Vlies, A. (2023). Olive Schreiner in the World: An Introduction. In J. Munslow Ong, & A. Van der Vlies (Eds.), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Olive Schreiner: writing networks and global contexts (2023)
Book
Munslow Ong, J., & van der Vlies, A. (Eds.). (2023). Olive Schreiner: writing networks and global contexts. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press

This collection of essays considers the significance of South African-born writer, activist and thinker Olive Schreiner in international and multidisciplinary contexts in her time – and the ongoing relevance of her work to our own. A leading writer o... Read More about Olive Schreiner: writing networks and global contexts.

‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner (2022)
Journal Article
Munslow Ong, J. (2022). ‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner. English Studies in Africa, 65(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2022.2055855

In her 1925 review of an edited collection of Olive Schreiner’s letters, Virginia Woolf described Schreiner as ‘too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’. Prompted by this intriguing comment, this article brings Woolf’s late-1920s writings in... Read More about ‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner.

Decolonising the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African ex-centric (2021)
Journal Article
Munslow Ong, J. (2021). Decolonising the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African ex-centric. English, 70(270), 244-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efab009

In this snapshot article, I outline the background and context for the development of research-led teaching activities aimed at students pursuing the WJEC Eduqas GCE A-Level English Literature qualification. The aims of these activities are threefold... Read More about Decolonising the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African ex-centric.

Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing (2021)
Thesis
Barnes, E. (2021). Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis argues that Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), Tekahionwake (E. Pauline Johnson) and Mary Kawena Pūku’i mobilise literary representations of more-than-human beings – plants, animals, and the land – to express resistance to the gendered... Read More about Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing.