Biography

Steph Newell is Professor of English. She holds an MA in African Studies from SOAS, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and a PhD in West African Studies from the University of Birmingham. She is president of the African Studies Association of the UK, co-director of the Centre of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Sussex, an Associate Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, and a Research Associate of the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge.

Role

Professor of English

President, African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) www.asauk.net

Co-director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Convenor, 'English Lecturer Training Programme' (ELTP)

Steph's research interests include West African literature, African newspaper culture, African readerships, the history of homosexuality in Africa, and postcolonial theory. She has published widely on African popular literature and West African newspaper history. Her most recent books include a study of the maverick palm-oil trader, John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939) published by Ohio University Press in 2006 and an introduction to West African literatures, published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Her book on anonymity and pseudonymity in colonial West Africa is forthcoming with Ohio University Press (The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West African Newspapers, Spring 2013). See: http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/The+Power+to+Name

For her forthcoming edited collection of essays (with Onookome Okome), see Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday (NY: Routeldge, forthcoming Summer 2013): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415532921/

Teaching: At undergraduate level at the University of Sussex, Steph currently teaches 'The Literatures of Africa,' 'The Art of Short Fiction', 'Translating Cultures' and 'Critical Approaches II'. At postgraduate level she teaches, 'The Postcolonial Locations Seminar.'

Newell, Stephanie (2013) The power to name: a history of anonymity in colonial West African newspapers. New African histories . Ohio University Press, Athens, OH. ISBN 9780821420324 (In Press)

Newell, Stephanie (2011) Articulating empire: newspaper readerships in colonial West Africa. New Formations, 2011 (73). pp. 26-42. ISSN 0950-2378

Newell, Stephanie (2011) Local cosmopolitans in colonial West Africa. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 46 (1). pp. 103-117. ISSN 0021-9894

Newell, Steph (2010) West African literature. In: The encyclopedia of twentieth-century fiction. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781405192446

Newell, Stephanie (2010) Something to hide? Anonymity and pseudonyms in the colonial West African press. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 45 (1). pp. 9-22. ISSN 0021-9894

Newell, Stephanie (2009) Newspapers, new spaces, new writers: the First World War and print culture in colonial Ghana. Research in African Literatures, 40 (2). pp. 1-15. ISSN 0034-5210

Newell, Stephanie (2008) Corresponding with the city: self-help literature in urban West Africa. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 44 (1). pp. 15-27. ISSN 1744-9855

Newell, Steph (2008) An introduction to the writings of J G Mullen, an African clerk, in the Gold Coast Leader, 1916-19. Africa, 78 (3). pp. 384-400. ISSN 0001-9720

Newell, Stephanie (2008) Dirty whites: "ruffian-writing" in colonial West Africa. Research in African Literatures, 39 (4). pp. 1-13. ISSN 0034-5210

Newell, Steph (2006) The forger's tale: the search for Odeziaku. New African Histories . Ohio University Press. ISBN 9780821417102

Newell, Stephanie (2006) West African literatures: ways of reading. Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures in English . Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199273973

Newell, Stephanie (2005) Devotion and domesticity: the reconfiguration of gender in popular christian pamphlets from Ghana and Nigeria. Journal of Religion in Africa, 35 (3). pp. 296-323. ISSN 0022-4200

Newell, Prof Steph, ed. (2002) Marita: Or the Folly of Love. A Novel by A. Native. Brill. ISBN 9-004-12186-2

Newell, Stephanie (2002) Literary culture in colonial Ghana: 'how to play the game of life'. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719062742