Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. She has published Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995, 2005), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 (2002), Stories of Women (2005), and the biography Nelson Mandela (2008). She is the author of four acclaimed novels, as well as the short-story collection Sharmilla and Other Portraits (2010). She edited Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys (2004), and the anthology Empire Writing (1998), and co-edited J.M. Coetzee in Writing and Theory (2009), Terror and the Postcolonial (2009), The Indian Postcolonial (2010), and The Postcolonial Low Countries (2012). She is the General Editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series.

Winner, European Society for the Study of English Book Prize for Literatures in the English Language

"Indeed while Indian Arrivals offers much which to engage, it also makes for very engaging reading. It twins impressive archival research with an imaginative handling of the material." -- Victorian Studies

"At the core of this book, supplying both its motivation and its story is a paradox of the alien and the familiar... A comprehensive and rewarding exploration of a fascinating period in British and Indian literary history" -- Marie Ni Fhlathuin

"Elleke Boehmer is one of the very few genuine literary all-rounders, as capable of writing excellent fiction as she is works of literary scholarship. Her latest, deservedly praised, novel, Shouting at the Dark (2015), must have been written alongside her latest scholarly work, which examines the writings of a number of Indians who undertook the journey to Britain in the "high imperial decades" of 1870-1915 (250)." --Anshuman A. Mondal, International Journal of Postcolonial Studies