Graham K. Riach

I am Professor of English and American Literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Research Fellow in the English Department at Stellenbosch University. I work on modern and contemporary literature, with a particular interest in postcolonial and world literatures and questions of genre and form. 

I have written two books,The Short Story After Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature (2023) and Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ (2017), and two projects are keeping me occupied: Global Narratives of Ageing and Disconsolate Forms: Postcolonial Aesthetics. The first of these reorients alarmist debates around ageing by analysing what contemporary world literature and other artforms can tell us about growing old. The second proposes that greater attention to non-Western aesthetic theories would usefully inform the analysis of postcolonial writing.

Along with some colleagues I recently set up a research group called FORMES, which explores form and formalist approaches from an interdisciplinary perspective.

You can find a list of my publications here

I am redoing this website, sorry things are a little bare for now!