Dr Ben Grant
benjamin.grant@kellogg.ox.ac.uk
Dr Ben Grant, is a Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, where he teaches Weekly Classes on the Foundation Certificate in English Literature. His research interests include postcolonial and world literature, the theory and practice of the aphorism, travel literature, psychoanalysis, and translation studies. His first book, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge, 2009), was about the iconic Victorian explorer and translator, Richard Francis Burton. He is also interested in all forms of brevity in literature; his second book, The Aphorism and Other Short Forms (Routledge New Critical Idiom, 2016), provides a consolidated picture of the exciting and often marginalised genres of the aphorism and related short forms, such as the proverb and the fragment. He has contributed the entry on Richard Francis Burton to the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, and an essay of his appears in the catalogue of a major international exhibition on the Kama Sutra held in Paris in 2014. He is currently working on the contemporary British writer Jenny Diski.
