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elleke boehmer

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Profile: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-elleke-boehmer

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Elleke Boehmer

Professor of World Literature in English
Director, Oxford Centre for Life Writing  

Affiliation: Faculty of English, Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Expert in: Migration narratives, representations, and public opinion; Postcolonial literary studies; Identity ​​​​​​
Geographic focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, UK

Boehmer's research explores issues of migration, identity, reception, nation, race and gender representation; and world literature and postcolonial debates, particularly relating to sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and contemporary Britain.