Dr Oliver Ross MA, PhD

At Churchill, I teach English Literature and its Contexts, 1830 to the Present, and Practical Criticism for Parts I and II. In the Faculty of English, I lecture and supervise in the areas of Postcolonial and Related Literatures, and Sexuality Studies.

Education:

• BA, English and Spanish: University of Oxford (2003)
• MA, English: University College London (2005)
• PhD, English: University of Cambridge (2011)

Research:

I am interested in world literatures and film, with a primary focus on Asian literary representations of sexuality. I have also worked on twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and American literature, and theories of queerness, gender, postcoloniality, and globalisation.

Publications:

• Rachel Bower, Desha Osborne and Oliver Ross, "An Interview with M.G. Vassanji", Wasafiri, 66 (2011), 3-7
• "Contradictions or Syncretism? The Politics of Female-Female Desire in Deepa Mehta's Fire and Ligy J. Pullappally's Sancharram (The Journey)", Explode Softly: Sexualities in Contemporary Visual Cultures, ed. by Shilpa Phadke and Brinda Bose (Seagull Books: Calcutta and London, TBA) (forthcoming)
• "'Am I lesbian?' The Contexts of Female-Female Desire in the Work of Kamala Das", Conference Proceedings: Destereotyping the Indian Body: Reconsidering the Representations '(TBA) (forthcoming)
• "'Transitional' Mediations: Male-Male Desire, AIDS and the Indian Woman in My Brother Nikhil, 68 Pages and Quest",GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (forthcoming)

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