Dr Angela Eyre

Professional biography

I am an Associate Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing and I have been teaching at the Open University since 2006 at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I hold a PhD from SOAS, University of London. I am also an Honorary Associate at the Open University and a member of the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group. I am a council member of the British Association of South Asian Studies. 

Research interests

My interests are in:

South Asian literature and postcolonial literature, from 1880 to the present.

Representations of land ownership and its relationship to political and economic contexts and the environment in India and Britain.

Critical neurodiversity and English Literature: representation and approaches

Publications

Eyre, A. (2025). 'Shamsie, Kamila', in: Jaidka, M., Dhar, T.N., Vashisht, N.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing. Springer, Singapore. Shamsie, Kamila (1973–) | SpringerLink

'K.S Venkataramani' and 'Kandan the Patriot' in Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English, ed. Manju Jaidka, Routledge, 2023.

‘The use of Hindi/Hindustani and Urdu words in Kim’ in Kipling in India: India in Kipling, ed. by H. Trivedi and J. Montefiore, Routledge, 2021.

'Organised Peasant Resistance in Fiction: Mulk Raj Anand’s The Sword and the Sickle and Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others', in ‘Who Speaks for the Village?’ Seventh SAMAJ-EASAS 21, 2019.

Review of Meeting without knowing it: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siecle by Alexander Bubb (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Kipling Journal, 91, 2017.

‘Land as a Legislative Space in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy and Phanishwarnath Renu’s Maila ancal’ in Vikram Seth: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, ed. G.J.V. Prasad, Delhi: Pencraft, 2004.

A Reader’s Guide to A Suitable Boy, New York and London: Continuum Books, 2002.

Contributions to teaching materials

2024 Author of units on Zadie Smith's White Teeth for Literature Matters (A240)

2021 - 2022  Author of a unit on Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire for MA in English Literature (A893).

Conferences and lectures

'Neurodiversity and English Literature'  Workshop presented with Louise Creechan (Durham University) at the English Shared Futures Conference, York University, 5th July 2025.

‘“Tods Amendment”, the Native-born Child, and Debates Over Tenancy Legislation’ at the Kipling in the News, Journalism, Empire and Decolonisation, City University 9-10^th September, 2021

‘Increasing Support for Dyspraxia in Higher Education Institutions’ at the 6^th Biennial International Conference on Widening Access, Participation and Success. Open University (online). 15-18 March 2021

‘Organised Resistance in the Village: Anand’s The Sword and the Sickle and Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others’, July 2018, 25^th European Conference on South Asian Studies, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

‘The Despair of the Landless in Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others and Akash Mohimen’s Mahua’ September 2017, Postcolonial Studies Association Convention, School of Advanced Study, London.

‘The use of Hindi/Hindustani and Urdu words in Kim’ ‘Kipling in India: India in Kipling: an International Conference’, April 2016, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India.

'Mind the gap: translation and Hindi/Urdu words in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and The Jungle Book', November 2015, Visiting lecture, Institute for Indologie, Leipzig,Germany, 

Teaching interests

I teach 'Literature Matters' (A240) and the MA in English (A893, A894). I previously taught English,‘Literature and Nation: Britain and India, 1800-1990’ (A817, A819); 'Intertextuality' (A815, A816) and 'Reading and Studying Literature' (A230)

Impact and engagement

I am engaged in work to improve the experience of neurodiverse students in the Open University. I have written advice for studying with dyspraxia for the Open University website. This was one of the outcomes of a FASS scholarship project Dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder): Understanding Students’ Requirements | FASSTEST that I worked on. I contribute regularly to Staff Development events on neurodiversity. 

I have taken an active role in events around decolonising the curriculum. I was one of the team on a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) scholarship project Proscribed Fictions: The Place of Colonial and/or Racist Literature in Curricular Decolonisation | FASSTEST

As Deputy Chair of the Kipling Society, I helped to create resources on Kipling and Empire – The Kipling Society for the Society's website.