Taylor and Francis Journals has created an open-access collection of the late Dr. Sneja Gunew’s publications. This collection offers access to publications in Taylor and Francis journals across her research career.
The collection’s editor, Dr Paula Muraca (Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Melbourne) and advisor Professor Emerita Wenche Ommundsen (University of Wollongong, Australia) shared the following introduction:
Though the collection is modest, relative to the hundreds of publications Sneja has left us, it is very much emblematic of her research interests and impacts. In this collection we can see her early interest in amplifying migrant writing; first in the Australian context and then in her later home, Canada.
Sneja’s astute and critical interpretations of the positioning and affective registers of migrant and racialized writing over the years profoundly informed her sense of ‘cosmopolitics’ and shaped her critical multicultural commitments. Throughout her career, her interventions succeeded in shifting the literary landscapes of these countries, along with how national and anglophone literatures were represented and studied in university courses.
Gunew was also instrumental in the development of feminist studies agendas in Australia and elsewhere. Her research expanded the critical and cultural horizons of feminist literary studies. These lines of inquiry are evident, and mix together innovatively, in this collection; both in their early and groundbreaking manifestations, as well as in more established, contemporary responses.
