Adnan Mahmutovic Professor
Contact
Name and title: Adnan MahmutovicProfessor
Workplace: Department of English Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room E 848Universitetsvägen 10 E, plan 8
Postal address Engelska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
Professor Adnan Mahmutović has lectured at the Department of English, Stockholm University, since 2007 and acted as the fiction editor at Two Thirds North, a journal of transnational writing, since 2010.
His major academic work includes: Ways of Being Free (Rodopi, 2012), Craft of Editing (Routlege, 2018), Future in Comics (MacFarland 2017), and Claiming Space (Bloomsbury 2021).
His major creative works include: Thinner than a Hair (Cinnamon Press 2010), How to Fare Well and Stay Fair (Salt Publishing 2012), At the Feet of Mothers (Cinnamon Press 2020).
His stories and creative non-fiction appear widely in the UK and US magazines, and his essay “Comics, War and Ordinary Miracles” has been adapted for BBC Radio.
He is a recipient of many awards for fiction and has served as a judge on a number of literary prizes, including the Neustadt Prize for Literature.
Mahmutović's expertise ranges from Postcolonial and World Literature studies to Comics Studies and Creative Writing craft and pedagogy. He is also interested in the question of AI in creative writing.
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS
Ways of Being Free: Authenticity and Community in Selected Works by Rushdie, Ondaatje, and Okri. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012.
EDITED VOLUMES
Claiming Space: Locations and Orientations in World Literatures. With Bo G. Ekelund and Helena Wulff. Bloomsbury, 2021.
Publication, Circulation and the Vernacular: Dimensions of World Literary Unevenness. With Christian Claesson and Stefan Helgesson. Special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2019.
The Craft of Editing. With Lucy Durneen. Routledge, 2018.
Visions of the Future in Comics: International Perspectives. With Francesco Alessio Ursini and Frank Bramlett. McFarland Press, 2017.
Which Side Are You On: Worlds of Grant Morrison. With Francesco Alessio Ursini and Frank Bramlett. A special issue of ImageTexT 8:2, 2015.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“The True, The Good, The Spiteful.” International Migration Review. 2024.
“Hackneyed Phrases: Lingual Migrations in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to The North.” Middle Eastern Literatures. 2023.
“To the Word-Woods and Back: Multi/Trans/No-lingual Movements.” Apples – Journal of Applied Language Studies. Vol. 16, 3, 2022, 19-34.
“Ms. Marvel and Superhero Iconography.” Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, 13:1, 2022.
“Marvel vs. World.” Journal of World Literature, 6:3, 2021.
“Chronotope in Moore and Gibbons’s Watchmen.” Studies in the Novel, 50:2, 2018.
“Writer as Ethnographer: Textualising War and Restoring the Gaps in the (Graphic) Narrative.” With Lucy Durneen. Short Fiction in Writing in Practice, 2018.
“To Issue a Firefly’s Glow: Wormhole Geographies and Positionality in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” Transnational Literature, 11:1, 2018.
“Move to the City: Infrastructure and Globalization in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.” Mosaic 50:4, 2017.
“Towards a Poetics of Editing.” With Lucy Durneen. Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 7:1, 2017.
“Global Citizenship in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” Transnational Literature, 8:2, 2016.
“Which Side Are You On? The Worlds of Grant Morrison.” With Francesco-Alessio Ursini and Frank Bramlett. ImageText Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 8:2, 2015.
“Ecce Animot – Or, The Animal Man That Therefore I am.” With David Coughlan and Stephen Blake Ervin. ImageText Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 8:2, 2015.
“Midnight’s Children: From Communalism to Community.” Transnational Literature, 4:2, Spring 2012.
“History as the Road of Existential Struggle in The Famished Road.” The Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, 2:2, 2010.
“History and the Nervous Condition in The English Patient.” The Journal of Contemporary Literature, 1:1, 2009.
“The Question of the Uncanny in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.” The Coleridge Bulletin, Summer 2007.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Why Do They Hate Us So Much: Precarity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English. Ed Om Prakash Dwivedi. Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.
“Buffalo – Sex, drugs & böneutrop i Islamshus.” in Platser i Världen. Ed. Anette Nyqvist. Appell Förlag, 2022.
“Core: Ecologies of Muslim-American Writing.” in Claiming Space: Locations and Orientations in World Literatures. Eds Bo G. Ekelund, Adnan Mahmutović and Helena Wulff. Bloomsbury, 2021.
“Globalization and the City in Mohsin Hamid’s Novels.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Ed. Tambling J. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
“Mohsin Hamid’s Twin Cities: New York and Lahore.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Ed. Tambling J. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
“Being-in-Alien: The Trinity of Bodies in Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017).” With Denise Ask Nunes. In Intelligible States: Bodies and/as Transitions in the Health Humanities. Eds Lisa DeTora and Stephanie Hilger. Routledge 2019.
“Literary Ecologies in Post-9/11 Muslim Fiction.” World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange. Eds. Stefan Helgesson, Yvonne Lindqvist, Annike Mörte Alling, and Helena Wulff. Stockholm University Press, 2018.
“Halal History and Existential Meaning in Salman Rushdie’s Early Fiction.” Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique. Eds. Maria Margaroni, Apostolos Lampropoulos, and Christakis Chatzichristou. Lexington Books, 2017.
“Narratological Approach to ‘The Seven Ravens.’” Introduction to Literary Theory. Eds. Carme Font, David Owen, and Laura Gimeno. Gylphi Publishing 2017.
“The Anthropocene in Miyazaki’s Nausicaä.” With Denise Ask Nunes. Visions of the Future in Comics: International Perspectives. Eds. Francesco Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutović, and Frank Bramlett. McFarland Press, 2017.
“Revolution Revisited: Politics of Dreaming in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road.” Ben Okri’s Imaginary Homelands. Ed. Vanessa Guignery, Cambridge Scholarly Publishing, 2013.
“The Nomadic Home in Tabish Khair’s Filming.” Tabish Khair: A Critical Companion. Ed. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Roman Books, 2013.
ESSAYS AND OPINION PIECES
"Nolan the Trojan: Technology in The Odyssey." Mangal Media. 2026.
"Bosnia: The lilies and dragons of the World Cup." Al-Jazeera English. 2026.
“In search of Sweden’s lost empathy.” Al-Jazeera English. 2026.
“No Bullshit in Paradise.” Al-Jazeera English. 2025.
“What’s in a Name? Resistance to Genocide.” Al-Jazeera English. 2024.
“My Hajj.” World Literature Today. 2023.
“Schrödinger’s Genocide.” Al-Jazeera English. 2023.
“Nostalgia all over Baščaršija.” Mangal Media. 2021.
“How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Trivas with Words.” World Literature Today. 2021.
“Black Moses Matters.” Mangal Media. 2020.
“How To Save Comics in Times of War.” World Literature Today, May-June 2015.
“Bismillah Your Own Name.” Short Fiction, 2014.
“The Origins of Smudges.” World Literature Today, March-April 2013.