Alex Tickell

Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English, Director of the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research group and Chair of the new MA in English Literature A893 (part 1 of the MA degree).

Alex is a critic and literary historian of global literatures in English and is especially interested in South Asian and Southeast Asian fiction in English - in 2005 he rediscovered the lost 1835 text of the very first fiction written in English by a South Asian author.

Alex has written about contemporary South Asian writers for OU modules (A233, A335) and authored material on Anita Desai for A893; he is also the author of books on Arundhati Roy and contemporary Indian fiction and is editor of the Oxford History of the Novel in English Vol. 10 (OUP, 2019).

Alex is interested in literary representations of Indian megacities and holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his current project, ‘City Fictions of the New India’.

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