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Dr. Alexander Bubb is an Associate Professor of English at the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Roehampton. His academic career spans institutions including King's College London (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow), Linnaeus University (postdoctoral researcher), and Trinity College Dublin (Marie Curie visiting fellow). His research focuses on translation, migration, multilingualism, and cosmopolitanism in the 19th-century imperial world, particularly transnational writers in London and book circulation in the British Empire.
- DPhil in English (Oxford, 2013)
- MSt in History (Oxford, 2009)
- BA in English (Oxford, 2008)
His scholarship bridges literary studies and historical analysis, with notable works like Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf: Flights of Translation (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Meeting Without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siècle (Oxford University Press, 2016). The AVaTAR archive he curates contains over 100 annotated Victorian translations from Asian languages.
Dr. Bubb's recent publications examine Victorian language learning materials (e.g., A Stepping Stone to the French Language, 1851) and their role in self-education. His research has been recognized with awards including the Royal Historical Society Fellowship (2024) and Richard Stein Essay Prize (2024).
- British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2021-22)
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2025-27)
He teaches modules on Victorian literature, medical humanities, and decolonizing archives, with a focus on the MA in Children's Literature. Dr. Bubb supervises PhD students working on Victorian/postcolonial themes.
