The following publications have emerged in the context of the MERLIT project since January 2024. Full publication lists of the group’s members and associated members can be found on their individual profiles, accessible by clicking on their last names.
Deconinck, J., and E. U. Pirker, guest editors. (Trans)portable: English in the World. Special issue of English Text Construction, vol. 18, no. 2, 2025.
Goethals, Marjolein. Review of Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, 2020. Anglia, vol. 142, no. 4, 2024, pp. 841-844. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2024-0067
Honinx, Maxime, and Marjolein Goethals. “An ‘English Home’: Constructions of Familiarity and Instability in Lucy Atkinson’s Recollections of Tartar Steppes and Their Inhabitants (1863).” English Text Construction, vol. 18, no. 2, 2025, pp. 136-165. https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.25011.pir
Ofei, Josephine Delali. “Review of Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions, by Isaac Vincent Joslin.” African Studies Quarterly, vol. 23, nos. 3-4, Dec. 2025, pp. 123-124. https://journals.flvc.org/ASQ/article/view/140135
Pace Aquilina, Maria. “Multilingualism during the Restoration Era in England: Negotiating Prestige through French in Theatrical Performance.” Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, forthcoming. https://clic.research.vub.be/journal
Pirker, E. U., and J. Deconinck. “English Moves: Hegemony, Hybridity and the (Trans)portability of English in Literature, Translation and Beyond the Page.” English Text Construction, vol. 19, no. 1, 2026, pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.26007.pir
Pirker, E. U., and D. G. İbrişim. “‘A Constellation of Lives’: A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor.” Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, vol. 11, no. 1, 2026, pp. 1-13. https://clic.research.vub.be/volume-11-issue-1-2026
Temurok, Ceydanur. “‘I […] Wore My English like a Mask’: English as an Ambivalent World of Possibilities in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” English Text Construction, vol. 18, no. 2, 2025, pp. 235-255. https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.25018.tem
