Research outputs
2026
Social history of medicine
Goodman, S. (2026). Social history of medicine (Vol. 39). Oxford University Press.
Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism
Goodman, S., & Arens, S. (2026). Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism. SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 39(2), 263-275. doi:10.1093/shm/hkag043
Beyond a Monolithic Orient: Iran, Genre, and Ambivalence in Nineteenth-Century French Culture
Arens, S. (2026). Beyond a Monolithic Orient: Iran, Genre, and Ambivalence in Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Global Intellectual History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1-4. doi:10.1080/23801883.2026.2638227
2025
Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality
Arens, S. (2025). Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality. CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CIVILIZATION, 50(4), 367-388. doi:10.3828/cfc.2025.20
Book Review: Julia Caterina Hartley, Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France (I.B. Tauris, 2023).
Arens, S. (n.d.). Book Review: Julia Caterina Hartley, Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France (I.B. Tauris, 2023)..
2024
Dix-Neuf
Arens, S., & Hartley, J. (Eds.) (2024). Dix-Neuf (Vol. 28).
Introduction
Hartley, J., & Arens, S. (2024). Introduction. Dix Neuf, 28(1), 1-8. doi:10.1080/14787318.2024.2318143
2023
Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World From Nostalgia to Resistance
Arens, S., Frith, N., Lewis, J., & Vince, R. (2023). Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World From Nostalgia to Resistance.
Introduction
Arens, S., Frith, N., Lewis, J., & Vince, R. (2023). Introduction. In COLONIAL CONTINUITIES AND DECOLONIALITY IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD (pp. 1-16). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
2022
'Death became him: A twisted take on the classic whodunnit features spirits, scapegoats and rumba', Review of Le commerce des Allongés by Alain Mabanckou
Arens, S. (2022). 'Death became him: A twisted take on the classic whodunnit features spirits, scapegoats and rumba', Review of Le commerce des Allongés by Alain Mabanckou. TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, (6243).
THE TRADE OF THE BURIED
Arens, S. (2022). THE TRADE OF THE BURIED. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (6243), 16. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Cash Crops and Clichés: Agriculture, Contact Zones, and Afterlives of Belgian Colonialism
Arens, S. (2022). Cash Crops and Clichés: Agriculture, Contact Zones, and Afterlives of Belgian Colonialism. In P. -P. Fraiture (Ed.), Unfinished Histories: Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium (pp. 211-229). Leuven: Leuven University Press.
The problem with French and the world: Imagining the province and the global in francophone African fiction
Arens, S. (2022). The problem with French and the world: Imagining the province and the global in francophone African fiction. In African Literatures as World Literature (pp. 47-69). doi:10.5040/9781501379987.ch-004
2020
Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature
Arens, S., & Ford, J. (Eds.) (2020). Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature (Vol. 20).
Introduction: Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature
Arens, S., & Ford, J. (2020). Introduction: Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature. Irish Journal of French Studies, 20(1), 1-13. doi:10.7173/164913320830841656
Killer Stories: 'Globalizing' the Grotesque in Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho and Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce
Arens, S. (2020). Killer Stories: 'Globalizing' the Grotesque in Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho and Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce. Irish Journal of French Studies, 20(1), 143-172. doi:10.7173/164913320830841692
Memory in Crisis: Commemoration, Visual Cultures and (Mis)representation in Postcolonial Belgium
Arens, S. (2020). Memory in Crisis: Commemoration, Visual Cultures and (Mis)representation in Postcolonial Belgium. Modern Languages Open, 1. doi:10.3828/mlo.v0i0.328
2018
Narrating the (Post)Nation? Aspects of the Local and the Global in Francophone Congolese Writing
Arens, S. (2018). Narrating the (Post)Nation? Aspects of the Local and the Global in Francophone Congolese Writing. RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, 49(1), 22-41. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.49.1.03
2017
From Mobutu to Molenbeek: Belgium and Postcolonialism
Arens, S. (2017). From Mobutu to Molenbeek: Belgium and Postcolonialism. In Postcolonial Europe Comparative Reflections After the Empires (pp. 163-176). doi:10.5040/9798881812348.ch11
2016
De Mobutu à Matonge: la littérature contemporaine de la diaspora congolaise
Arens, S. (2016). De Mobutu à Matonge: la littérature contemporaine de la diaspora congolaise. In S. Demart, & G. Abrassart (Eds.), Créer en postcolonie 2010-2015: Voix et dissidences belgo-congolaises (pp. 225-232). Brussels: BOZAR et Africalia.
2015
Les géographies transculturelles et postcoloniales
Arens, S. (2015). Les géographies transculturelles et postcoloniales. Textyles, 47, 159-174. doi:10.4000/textyles.2639