Prof Jade Munslow Ong

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies

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Contact Details

200B Crescent House, University of Salford, M54WT

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Current positions

Professor World Literatures in English

Biography

I completed my BA, MA and PhD at the University of Manchester. I joined the University of Salford in 2013.

I am currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC follow-on-funded project 'Decolonising Literary Studies In and Beyond the Classroom' (Sep 2024-Jun 2026), which followed earlier project 'South African Modernism 1880-2020' (Jan 2021-Apr 2024).

I am a BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker and appear on programmes on BBC Radio 3 and 4.

Areas of Research

Olive Schreiner and her circles, fin de siècle literatures and cultures, colonial and postcolonial texts and contexts (particularly from Southern Africa), world literature, postcolonial ecocriticism, animals and the environment in literature, global modernisms.

Teaching Qualifications and Recognitions

Teaching

As module convenor: World Literature and the Environment (level 5); Victorian Literature (level 5); Post/colonial African Literatures (level 6); Dissertations (level 6); Regional and World Literatures (MA).

Teaching: Discovering Literature (level 4); Critical Skills for the Twenty-First Century (level 4); Romantic Period (level 5); Female Gothic (level 5); Twenty-First Century Women's Writing (level 5), Modernism (level 6); Theory, Text, Writing (MA); Professional Practice (MA); Dissertations (MA).

I supervise PhD theses on Victorian, global and Indigenous literatures, creative pedagogies, and in Gender Studies, and would welcome applications relating to any of my research interests.

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications

  • Academic Practice

    2014 - 2015

  • PhD English Literature

    2009 - 2013

  • MA English and American Studies (Distinction)

    2007 - 2008

  • BA Hons English Literature and Language (First)

    2003 - 2006