Muhsina Najeeb

About

Muhsina Najeeb is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the Central University of Kerala, India. She holds an M.Phil. and an M.A. in English from the Institute of English, University of Kerala. She has cleared UGC NET, JRF and GATE in English. Her research interests include Crime Fiction Studies, Feminist Geography, Children’s Literature, Food Studies, and Lakshadweep Studies. She has published in international peer-reviewed and Scopus/Web of Science-indexed journals, and has translated an academic monograph on artificial intelligence (English to Malayalam). She has also presented her research at national and international conferences.

Employment

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Education

• Central University of Kerala PhD
  2022 - Present
• University of Kerala M.Phil in English Language and Literature
  2018 - 2019
• University of Kerala MA in English Language and Literature
  2016 - 2018

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Publications (14)

• Investigating Crime in a Time of War: Historical Crime Fiction and the Representation of Fascism. By Thomas W.Kniesche, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. pp. 266. $92.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐87231‐0
  The Journal of Popular Culture 2026 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.70068
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• Playful Justice: Ludic Geographies and the Girl Sleuth in Lena Jones’s Agatha Oddly: The Secret Key
  Children's Literature in Education 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-026-09698-3
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• Eating Against the Grain: Parsi Cuisine and Feminist Resistance in Sujata Massey's Perveen Mistry Series
  Popular Culture Review 2026 DOI: 10.1002/pcr4.70006
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• Book review: Ria Banerjee, Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics. By BanerjeeRia. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. xii + 226 pp. $119.…
  cultural geographies 2026 DOI: 10.1177/14744740251361927
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• Crime Fiction and Ecology: From the Local to the Global. By NathanAshman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 84. £55.00 (hbk)
  The Journal of Popular Culture 2025 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.70033
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• Italian Crime Fiction Revisited: Authority, Detection, and the Supernatural, 1861–1941. By StefanoSerafini, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 280 pp. $124.67 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐80735‐0
  The Journal of Popular Culture 2025 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.13452
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• Unfolding spatial movements in the second-hand book market in Kolkata: notes on the margins in the Boipara
  Social & Cultural Geography (Taylor & Francis, Routledge) 2025 DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2025.2567124
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• Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. SayersBy JemBloomfield, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 230 pp. £109.99 (hbk)
  The Journal of Popular Culture 2025 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.13415
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• Philip Larkin and the place of writing
  Social & Cultural Geography 2025 DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2025.2511545
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• Studying crime in fiction: An introduction By EricSandberg, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 204. £35.99 (pbk)
  The Journal of Popular Culture 2025 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.13388
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