Literature

I am the lead Literature editor and responsible for commissioning Literature titles from the medieval period through to the end of the nineteenth century. The Literature portfolio at OUP is particularly varied, and includes reference publishing, trade books, undergraduate and graduate textbooks, and scholarly editions alongside academic monographs. I am especially interested in projects with a transnational or global focus, and those which seek to reposition literatures and cultures which have been marginalised in previous scholarly accounts. I am committed to promoting the importance of the arts and humanities to everyday experience and to society more generally, and so have an interest in projects which seek to advocate the value of the humanities. I also look out for strong work in the areas of book history, material culture, and intellectual history. 

I seek book projects in American and comparative literature for scholars, students, and general readers. I acquire primarily academic monographs, Oxford Handbooks, and other reference works, and occasionally trade books for general audiences. I am responsible for the Oxford Studies in American Literary History and Global Asias series, and in history and classics, for the Oxford-Warbug Studies and Studies in German History series, among others. I welcome interdisciplinary submissions from across American and global literatures. I am particularly interested in African American literature, children’s literature, diaspora literatures, and queer studies.

I am an Acquisitions Editor in Reference Editorial with a focus on literature, linguistics, and classics. I manage the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, as well as the Oxford Classical Dictionary. Additionally, I am the subject editor for several of our Oxford Bibliographies modules, with subjects covering literature, linguistics, classics, and cinema and media studies. I also commission new print handbooks, mainly in literature and linguistics, and have recently worked on publications such as The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture. I have a degree in English Literature with a minor in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I have a Master of Professional Studies in Publishing from George Washington University. I have been with OUP for eight years, working with our Journals publications before moving to Reference Editorial in 2022.

I am a Senior Associate Editor in the Humanities team. I acquire academic monographs, Oxford Handbooks, and other reference works for the Literature list, as well as a smaller number of scholarly editions and books for a wider readership. I am particularly interested in projects which foreground underrepresented authors and cultures, and encourage submissions which engage with subjects such as race, gender, sexuality, disability, and class. I am also excited by the move towards interdisciplinary work in the humanities, including the environmental and medical humanities. I am the responsible editor for the following series in Literature: Law and Literature, My Reading, Oxford Mid-Century Studies, Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture I also contribute to our commissioning in History in the following series: Past and Present Books Series, Oxford Medieval Texts, Medieval History and Archaeology, and Oxford Historical Monographs. 

I am a commissioning editor for humanities with OUP’s Academic India division, specializing in history, philosophy, religion, and literature. I commission across a range of themes and geographies but with a particular focus on India, South Asia, and wider Asia. I particularly seek investigations that centre on environmental histories; critical discussions of imperial histories; social histories that include gender relations and transformation of caste hierarchies; new perspectives on labour; debates around religious traditions and cultural practices, and the relationship between science and religion; and new ways of looking at nationalist histories. For literature, I especially look forward to acquiring titles that reflect interdisciplinary trends at the intersection of literature and the arts—theatre, cinema, music, and painting; literature and politics; and literature and cultural studies. Other works that engage with critical new developments in the humanities and add value to our understanding of Asia are most welcome.

Since 2012, I have commissioned works for our academic, trade, and reference programmes from India. I run our Academic India commissioning and publishing team, and bring out global print and electronic (eBook and online) editions in Humanities and Social Sciences by both senior and younger academics worldwide, focusing on South Asia and other parts of Asia. I am particularly looking for multi-contributor Oxford Handbooks offering commissioned essays and monographs within or outside any new academic series. Diverse are the areas and issues I engage in, including minorities, geopolitics, international relations, religion, conflicts and peacekeeping, sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity, public health, gender, education, performance studies, media, social and cultural histories, literature and the other arts, business, economics, and management. While the emphasis is on books of contemporary and long-lasting relevance among an academic readership, I am also curious to look selectively at market-facing proposals for crossover books for a wider readership as well as Oxford India Short Introductions, which I publish mainly for students and the general reader.