Modern literary studies and intellectual history, with specific interests in the modern and contemporary novel; literature, science and medicine; cultural theory and modernist aesthetics
Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
Stephanie Newell FBA's research focuses on the cultural histories of printing and reading in Ghana and Nigeria, including spaces of creativity and resistance in colonial-era newspapers.
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