Draft:Russel West-Pavlov

Russell West-Pavlov is a scholar in the field of Anglophone literatures and cultures, with a particular focus on the Global South. He is a professor at the University of Tübingen in Germany, where he leads the section on Anglophone Literary Cultures and Global South Studies.

Biography & Research
Russell West-Pavlov completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Universities of Melbourne, Cambridge, Lille, and Cologne. Before coming to Tübingen he was professor at the University of Pretoria and the Free University of Berlin. West-Pavlov has been Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Tübingen since 2013. He works primarily in the area of Comparative Global South literary studies, with foci on Africa, Australia and the Caribbean, and the cultural semiotics of time and space. He has convened a large DAAD Thematic Network Project ›Literary Cultures of the Global South‹ (2015-2020). That network helped to establish the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen, where he serves as a founding board member. He is editor of the book series Transdisciplinary Souths (Routledge) and Challenges (Narr).

His research covers topics such as postcolonial studies, literary theory, and temporalities in literature. He has contributed to the understanding of cultural identities and the dynamics of literary production in the Global South.

Publications
Monographs

2020 Enthusiasm: Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2019 Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions - European Configurations (edited with Nadia Fadil and Birgitte Schepelern Johansen). London: Bloomsbury.

2019 The Public Work of Christmas: Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies (edited with Pamela E. Klassen). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

2014 Emotional Lexicons. Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000 (co-authored with Ute Frevert, Christian Bailey, Pascal Eitler, Benno Gammerl, Bettina Hitzer, Margrit Pernau, Anne Schmidt, and Nina Verheyen). New York: Oxford University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2022 Culture and Religion: Remarks on an Indeterminate Relationship. Religion and Society 13, pp. 111–125, https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2022.130107.

2017 Feeling Differently: Approaches and Their Politics (with Benno Gammerl and Jan S. Hutta). In: Emotion, Space and Society, pp. 87-94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2017.07.007.

2014 (with Bettina Hitzer) Unholy Feelings. Questioning Evangelical Emotions in Wilhelmine Germany. German History 32/3, pp. 371-392 (Special Issue: Feeling and Faith - Religious Emotions in German History, ed. by Pascal Eitler, Bettina Hitzer and Monique Scheer), https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghu061.

2013 What She Looks Like. On the Recognition and Iconization of the Virgin Mary at Apparition Sites in the Twentieth Century. In: Material Religion 9/4, pp. 442-467, https://doi.org/10.2752/175183413X13823695747444. 2012 Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (and Is That What Makes Them Have a History)? A Bourdieuan Approach to Understanding Emotion, History and Theory 51/2, pp. 193-220, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2012.00621.x.