Professor Dr. Elleke Boehmer

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Elleke Boehmer is a Professor of World Literature at the University of Oxford, where she is an English Fellow at Wolfson College and the Director of the Oxford Centre for Life Writing. With a career spanning over three decades, she has earned recognition as a pioneering scholar in postcolonial and colonial literary studies. Boehmer’s research focuses on Anglophone literatures, particularly the intersection of narrative and cultural history, and she has gained international acclaim for her work on empire and anti-empire themes. She has published numerous influential monographs, including 'Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors', and 'Postcolonial Poetics'. Her current research project, 'Southern Imagining', examines literary perceptions of the Southern Hemisphere. Boehmer has also served as an editor for the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series and has been involved in various noteworthy academic initiatives, such as leading narrative interventions aimed at improving adolescents' lives in Africa. In addition to her academic contributions, she has written fiction, receiving accolades such as the Olive Schreiner Prize for her novel 'Shouting Dark'.

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