Russell West-Pavlov trained in English, French and German literature at the Universities of Melbourne (MA), Cambridge (Trinity College) (PhD), Lille III (Doctorat) and Cologne (DrHabil).

Research interest

• Comparative Global South Studies
• Time and Space in Literature
• Early Modern Literature

Major funded projects

• DAAD TRN Literary Cultures of the Global South 2015-2020
• Global South Spring Schools, Karl-Schlecht-Foundation 2024-2025
• PI in DFG RTG 3105 Figurations of the Precarious in the Global South 2026-2031

Contestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe: Per Se (with John Kinsella). London: Anthem, 2025. 

Heterotropic Theatres: Shakespeare and After (with contributions by Keyvan Allahyari, Anya Heise-von der Lippe and Pavan Kumar Malreddy.) Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto,2025. 

AfrikAffekt: Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsromane zum Herero- und Nama-Genozid: Ein affekttheoretischer Ansatz. Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto, 2020. 

(Ed. with Andrée Gerland) Interkulturelle Bildung, Migration und Flucht: Potenziale und Beispiele der Integration in Schule, öffentlichem Raum und Literatur. Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto, 2020.

German as Contact Zone: Towards a Quantum Theory of Translation from the Global South. Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto, 2019. 

ˈtɛmp(ə)rərɪnəs: On the Imperatives of Place (with John Kinsella). Tübingen: Narr/Francke/Attempto, 2018. 

Eastern African Literatures: Towards an Aesthetics of Proximity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 

(Ed.) The Global South and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

(Ed. with Anya Heise-von der Lippe) Literaturwissenschaften in der Krise: Zur Rolle und Relevanz literarischer Praktiken in globalen Krisenzeiten. Tübingen: Narr-Francke-Attempto, 2018.

(Ed. with Andrew James Johnston and Elisabeth Kempf) Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. 

(Ed.) Visions of the Future in Contemporary African Literatures and Cultures. Special Issue Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 51 (2014). 

Temporalities. [New Critical Idiom series] London: Routledge, 2013. 

Imaginary Antipodes: Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. 238 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-8253-5925-6.

North-South / East-West: Global Entanglements in Post-imperial Writing in French and German. Trier: WVT, 2010. 

Australian Literature in German Translation: A Catalogue of Titles, Translators and Trends 1789-2010 (mit Jens Elze-Volland). Berlin: Institut für Englische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin, 2010. LINK: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/de/86329

Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space: Postcolonial Place and Literary DeiXis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 

Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009. 

Bodies and their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Drama. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2006.

Transcultural Graffiti: Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary Studies. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2005. 

Spatial Representations on the Jacobean Stage: From Shakespeare to Webster. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 

Figures de la maladie chez André Gide. Lille/Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1997.

Conrad and Gide: Translation, Transference and Intertextuality. Amsterdam/Atlanta GA: Rodopi, 1996.