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. This reflects my background: I originally trained as a historian of South Asia and I continue to look at Victorian Britain as a society intimately, often painfully intervolved with its overseas colonies. 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 have also written on aspects of modern Indian history – including a Scandinavian railway contractor who made his fortune in 1860s Bombay, and the diaries of Irish soldiers serving 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.
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.