Jaine Chemmachery

Jaine Chemmachery

Senior Lecturer (VALE)

  • Sorbonne Université, UFR d'études anglophones, 5 rue Victor Cousin
    75005 , Paris

Jaine Chemmachery

Jaine Chemmachery is a Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at Sorbonne Université. She wrote a PhD dissertation on R. Kipling's and S. Maugham’s short stories on Empire and the relation between colonialism, modernity and the genre of the short story (2013). Her main research fields are colonial and postcolonial literatures, Victorian and Neo-Victorian literatures, and modernity. Her current research focuses on mobility studies, body studies and the representation of precarity/precariousness in literature. She published with Bhawana Jain on a collected volume entitled Mobility and Corporeality in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Literature : Bodies in Motion (Rowman, 2021). Her latest publications include “‘He wants me to bring him home, even in the form of a shell’: Criminalized Bodies and Repatriation in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire” (Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2023) and “‘Violence, Ritual, and Space’: Aleshea Harris in Conversation with Julie Vatain-Corfdir and Jaine Chemmachery” (De Gruyter, 2023).