Ross G Forman

Dr Ross G Forman is a Reader (Associate Professor) in English at the University of Warwick, Faculty of Arts, within the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. He joined Warwick in 2011 after teaching at the National University of Singapore and working with the Centre for Asian and African Literatures at SOAS and UCL. He currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies and academic co-chair of the University's Rainbow/LGBTQUA+ Taskforce.

His educational background includes an AB from Harvard, MA and PhD from Stanford, and Fulbright Scholar status in Brazil.

Dr Forman's research centers on the Anglophone long nineteenth century, with deep expertise in Britain's cultural relationships with China, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. His work bridges postcolonial studies, diaspora literature, and queer theory, examining material culture, imperial exhibitions, foodways, and global sexuality formations. He investigates how colonial encounters shaped British identity through objects, narratives, and cross-cultural exchanges.

His publication trends reveal interdisciplinary transnational approaches connecting literature with medical humanities, food studies, and theatre. Articles consistently analyze intersections of empire, race, and gender, emphasizing cultural circulation across national boundaries—particularly between Britain, Asia, and Latin America—with recurring focus on archival recovery and queer methodologies.

Scientific awards include:

• Rudikoff Prize for best first book in Victorian Studies (2015) for "China and the Victorian Imagination"
• Dartmouth Medal as editor for the Global Encyclopedia of LGBTQ History

Dr Forman has supervised 10 PhD students across Warwick and National University of Singapore, with dissertation topics spanning diaspora literature, queer theory, and postcolonial studies. He secured competitive grants including a British Academy seed grant on art/theatre interventions for urban youth violence (Brazil/UK), and co-led the British Academy Newton Mobility Network and SPRINT Project on "The Novel without Frontiers" with University of São Paulo.

He actively collaborates through the Rainbow/LGBTQUA+ Taskforce and international networks like FAPESP-funded projects, demonstrating commitment to both scholarly innovation and institutional equity initiatives while mentoring postdoctoral fellows for Leverhulme and British Academy fellowships.