Decolonising English Studies from the Semi-Periphery

Ana Cristina Mendes is Associate Professor of English Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she teaches courses in cultural studies, visual culture and adaptation, and English history and culture. She is the author of Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace (2013) and The Past on Display (2013), and editor of Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture (2012).

• Introduction.- PART I. What Decolonisation Is and Why English Studies Needs It.- Decolonising the University: A Turn, Shift, or Fix? .- Excavating the Imperial History of English Studies .- Interrupting How the Literary Canon is Taught.- PART II. What A Decolonised Curriculum For English Studies Can Look Like .- Beyond Stasis: Intertextuality, Spreadability, and Fandom.- Adaptation Case Studies: Wuthering Heights and Home Fire.- Course Descriptions: English Literature (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and English Literature (twentieth and twenty-first centuries).- Concluding Notes.