Member Profile
Name:
Dr Alexander Bubb
Institution:
Roehampton University
Academic status:
University/college academic
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
History
Other societies:
SHARP
Kipling Society
Kipling Society
Research interests:
My research interests concern translation, migration and multilingualism in the Victorian world, with a particular focus on Britain’s ties to India. Particular interests for me have been cosmopolitan and migratory writers active in 1880s and 1890s London, and the circulation of books and translations throughout the British Empire. While my interests are mainly literary, I originally trained as a historian of South Asia and have written on several related subjects, including a Scandinavian railway contractor who made his fortune in 1860s Bombay, and the diaries of Irish soldiers who served in India.
In 2016 I published Meeting Without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siècle (Oxford University Press), a comparative study of the two poets at the start of their careers in 1890s London. It won the 2017 University English Book Prize, and was shortlisted for one of the ESSE Book Awards. My second book, Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf: Flights of Translation (OUP, 2023), won the BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize and was runner-up in the VPFA Second Book Prize.
In 2016 I published Meeting Without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siècle (Oxford University Press), a comparative study of the two poets at the start of their careers in 1890s London. It won the 2017 University English Book Prize, and was shortlisted for one of the ESSE Book Awards. My second book, Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf: Flights of Translation (OUP, 2023), won the BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize and was runner-up in the VPFA Second Book Prize.