Publikationen / Publications

Monograph

(2016) Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature: Lost in a Liminal Space? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited Collections

• (2020) (with Pavan Malreddy and Anindya Sekhar Purkayastha): Populism in the Postcolony. Special Issue Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 5 (1).
• (2019) (with Pavan Malreddy and Anindya Sekhar Purkayastha): Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives. Oxon/New York: Routledge.       
• (2015) (with Pavan Malreddy, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson): Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• (2013) (with Ines Detmers): ‘From Popular Goethe to Global Pop’: The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. IFAVL 166. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 
• (2012) (with Pavan Malreddy): Orientalism and Terrorism: Theory, Text, and Images after 9/11. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (3).
•  (2011) (with Ines Detmers and Cecile Sandten): Tracing the Urban Imaginary in the Postcolonial Metropolis and the ‘New’ Metropolis. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47 (5).        

Journal Articles

• (2020) “The Brexit within: Mapping the Rural and the Urban in Contemporary British Fiction.” Writing Brexit. Colonial Remains. Special Issue Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56.5: 676-88. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1820670.
• (2020) (with Pavan Malreddy and Anindya Sekhar Purkayastha): "Discoursing Populism: Types, Typologies and Contexts." Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 5.1: 1-8.

• (2020) “Anticipating the Post-Agreement Novel: Retrospection and Narrative Suspension in Deirdre Madden’s One by One in the Darkness.” Irish Studies Review, doi 10.1080/09670882.2020.1740398

• (2020) “Rewriting the Wrongs: Shankari Chandran, Genre and Civil War.” Wasafiri 35.1: 19-23.

• (2019) “The Symbolic Survival of the 'Living Dead': Narrating the LTTE Female Fighter in Post-War Sri Lankan Women’s Writing.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54.3: 384-98.

• (2019) “Internalising a Mood: Birte Heidemann in Conversation with Anuk Arudpragasam.” Phoenix: Sri Lanka Journal of English in the Commonwealth XV & XVI: 91-98.

• (2017) “‘Review Essay: The Moments No One Wants to Remember’: Post-War Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature.” Wasafiri 32.4: 85-88. 

• (2016) “‘When the Making of History was the Making of Silence’: An Interview with Minoli Salgado.” Postcolonial Text 11.4: 1-12.

• (2012) “‘We are the Glue Keeping Civilization Together’: Post-Orientalism and Counter-Orientalism in H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy.” Orientalism and Terrorism: Theory, Text, and Images after 9/11. Eds. Pavan Malreddy and Birte Heidemann. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48.3: 289-298.
• (2011) (with Ines Detmers and Cecile Sandten): “Introduction: Tracing the Urban Imaginary in the Postcolonial Metropolis and the ‘New’ Metropolis.” Tracing the Urban Imaginary in the Postcolonial Metropolis and the “New” Metropolis. Eds. Ines Detmers, Birte Heidemann, and Cecile Sandten. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47.5: 483-487.
• (2009) “‘I’m Just a Half-breed Bastard’: Hybrid Identities in Alex Wheatle’s Brixton Rock.” interjuli: Internationale Zeitschrift zur Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung/International Journal of Children and Youth Literature 1.1: 57-69.

Book Chapters

• (commissioned; in preparation) "Nationalism and Transnationalism." Salman Rushdie in Context. Ed. Florian Stadtler. Cambridge: CUP. 

• (2019) (with Pavan Malreddy and Anindya Sekhar Purkayastha): "Introduction: Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives." Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives. Eds. Pavan Malreddy, Anindya Sekhar Purkayastha, and Birte Heidemann. Oxon/New York: Routledge, 1-20.

• (2015) "Post-Agreement Belfast: Labour, Work and the New Subalterns in Daragh Carville’s Play This Other City." Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights. Eds. Pavan Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen, and Janet Wilson. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 119-33. 
• (2013) (with Ines Detmers): "Einleitung: Annäherungen an den Westen – Projekte, Praktiken, Prozesse."/ "Introduction: Approaching the West – Projects, Practises and Processes.". ‘From Popular Goethe to Global Pop’: The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. Eds. Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 13-20.
• (2013) "Embodiments of the West: Texture and Textuality of the Symbolic Body in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist."‘'From Popular Goethe to Global Pop’: The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. Eds. Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 147-160.
• (2013) "Collective Chronicles: (Fictional) Life Histories of Australia’s Stolen Generations.” Narrating Nomadism: Tales of Recovery and Resistance. Eds. G.N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis and K.K. Chakravarty. London: Routledge, 92-103.
• (2010) "'We are the Ones You Do Not See': The Need for a Change of Focus in Filming Black Britain." Commodifying (Post)Colonialism: Othering, Reification, Commodification and the New Literatures and Cultures in English. Eds. Rainer Emig and Oliver Lindner. Amsterdam: Rodopi: 193-203.

Book Reviews

• (2018) "Divided by Marriage, United by War" (Review of Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage). Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 3.1: 90-92.
• (2018) "Shyam Selvadurai’s Many Roads Through Paradise: An Anthology of Sri Lankan Literature." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5.2: 250-251.
• (2013) "Karen Gabriel’s Melodrama and the Nation: Sexual Economies of Bombay Cinema 1970-2000 and Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande’s Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora." Wasafiri 73: 97-99.
• (2012) "Spatialized Aesthetic (Review of Neal Alexander’s Ciaran Carson: Space, Place, Writing)." The Irish Review 45: 112-114.
• (2011) "Chelva Kanaganayakam’s Wilting Laughter: Three Tamil Poets. R Cheran, VIS Jayapalan, Puthuvai Rathnathurai and Shanta Acharya’s Dreams that Spell the Light." Wasafiri 65: 99-100.
• (2009) “‘My Poems Rain Like the Rays of the Moon’: Sankjukta Dasgupta’s First Language and More Light...” Kavya Bharati 21 (1): 204-213.

Encyclopedia Entries

• (2011) Rosemary Marangoly George’s “Where in the World Did Kamala Markandaya Go?” Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.
• (2010) Rocío Davis’s “Writing Fathers: Auto/biography and Unfulfilled Vocation in Sara Suleri Goodyear’s Boys Will be Boys and Hanif Kureishi’s My Ear at His Heart.” Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). London: Routledge.

Ausgewählte Vorträge / Selected Talks

• (2019) "Towards a Narrative of (Re)Conciliation? Post-War Sri Lankan Literature in English", Colloquium Transculturality in the Anglophone World, Neue Englischsprachige Literaturen und Kulturen (NELK), Goethe University Frankfurt.
• (2018) "Post-War Literary Perspectives from Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka", Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
• (2018) "A Tale of Two Marriages: The Clash of Postcolonial Nationalisms in Sri Lankan Post-War Fiction", GAPS Annual Meeting, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
• (2016) "Gender, Nation and Diaspora: Post-Conflict Sri Lankan Women’s Writing", Symposium: New Perspectives on Gender in Postcolonial Studies, Centre for Teaching and Research in Postcolonial Studies, University of Liège, Belgium.
• (2013) "Reading the City: Post-Agreement Belfast in Poetry", IASIL Conference, Queen’s University Belfast.
• (2010) "The Shock of the New: Formal Experimentations in Sarnath Banerjee’s Graphic Novels", ACLALS Triennial Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• (2009) "Lost in a Liminal Space: Re-Imagining Identity in Contemporary Northern Irish Fiction", PSA Inaugural Conference, Waterford, Ireland.
• (2009) "(Fictional) Life Histories: Australia’s 'Stolen Generations'", Chotro II Conference, Tejgadh, India.