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Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill (2019)
Journal Article
Pett, S. (2019). Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill. Literature and Medicine, 37(1), 26-66. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2019.0001

This article responds to recent criticism of the medical humanities, concentrating on anxieties about the discipline’s failure to take seriously the principles and practices of humanities disciplines such as history and literary studies. Specifically... Read More about Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill.

1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China (2016)
Book
Tan, T. Y. (2016). T. Y. Tan, P. Edmondson, & S.-P. Wang (Eds.). 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472587206

The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting pla... Read More about 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China.

Autobiography and Muslim Women's Lives (2013)
Journal Article
Yaqin, A. (2013). Autobiography and Muslim Women's Lives. Journal of Women's History, 25(2), 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2013.0020

The article presents literary criticism of the book "Lahore With Love: Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani-Style" by Fawzia Afzal-Khan. It references the article "Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity" by historian Joan Wallach Sco... Read More about Autobiography and Muslim Women's Lives.

Video Exposé: Metafiction and Message in Nigerian Films (2012)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2012). Video Exposé: Metafiction and Message in Nigerian Films. Journal of African Cinemas, 4(1), 25-57. https://doi.org/10.1386/jac.4.1.25_1

In this article, I discuss how Nigerian film-makers respond to discourses surrounding film-making in Nigeria through using techniques of metafiction to theorize their roles as professionals and cultural mediators. Dividing my analysis into two sectio... Read More about Video Exposé: Metafiction and Message in Nigerian Films.

The Price You Pay (2012)
Book
Batabyal, S. (2012). The Price You Pay. Harper Collins

J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace: Reading Race/Reading Scandal (2006)
Book Chapter
Easton, K. (2006). J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace: Reading Race/Reading Scandal. In J. Morrison, & S. Watkins (Eds.), Scandalous Fictions. The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (187-205). Palgrave Macmillan