Ameeth Vijay

Ameeth Vijay specializes in global anglophone literature, modern and contemporary British literature, postcolonial studies and urban studies. He is the author of Topothesia: Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess (Fordham University Press, 2023) which examines the intersections between literature, urban planning and architecture and tracks the persistence of colonial relationships in the development of contemporary spaces.

Pronouns: he/him/his

Books

• Topothesia: Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess, Fordham University Press, 2023  LINK

Articles & Book Chapters

• “Cities, Political Aesthetics, and the Built Environment,” in The Routledge Companion to Politics and
  Literature in English, Routledge, 2023  LINK
• “Cultivating Colonial Subjects: The Planner as Gardener in the Work of Patrick Geddes” The
  Global South , Fall 2020, Vol. 14, No. 2, Cultures of Cultivation (Fall 2020), pp. 10-28  LINK
• “Dissipating the Political: Battersea Power Station and the Temporal Aesthetics of Development,”
  Open Cultural Studies 2018; 2: 611-625  LINK
• “ ‘Towns of Unquestionable Insignificance’ in Caryl Phillips’ A Distant Shore,” Postcolonial Text, 10.1 (2015)  LINK
• “After the Pop-Up Games: London's Never-ending Regeneration,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33 (2015): 425 – 443  LINK

Book Reviews

• “The Ends of the World: Review of Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability by Emily Apter,” Discourse, 36.3 (2014): 400-404  LINK

Public Humanities Works

• Entanglement,” in “Reading for Infrastructure,” Foundry, February 2021  LINK

• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Irvine, 2015
• M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, 2009
• B.A. with Honors in Comparative Literature, Brown University, 2004