About

Roxanne was the co-organiser of the Women in World(-)Literature conference in 2022 , which asked 'in “a singular modernity, combined and uneven”, what is specific about women’s experiences; and how are these specificities registered in world(-)literature?'. Since then, Roxanne has led a special issue on Women in World-Literature for the Journal of World Systems Research (issue available here), and an edited collection Women in World-Literature which will be published by Liverpool University Press in 2025. She is organising a follow up conference 'Women in World-Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion'Link opens in a new window, which will focus on how the ecological and health impacts of the world-system are implicated by gender. Roxanne will be using her time as a Pathway to Knowledge Fellow to run this conference and to begin work on her second monograph It's the End of the World As She Knows It, which will use world-literary methods to engage with women's apocalyptic and pre-apocalyptic writing from across the world. The project will ask questions such as: what does it mean to be a woman, a social role, at the end of society; how are bodies and (reproductive) labour examined as resources for the “greater good” in a crisis? How does “culture” continue? Is this task gendered?

Roxanne's first book, Feminist Gothic, Critical Irrealism and Arab Women’s World-Literature: ‘Living with Ghosts’ will be published with Palgrave Macmillan's ‘New Comparisons in World Literature’ series soon.