SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English is an international peer-reviewed journal founded in 1980. It publishes scholarly articles and reviews, interviews, and other lively and critical interventions.
Serving as an electronic journal from 2016, SARE aims to be a key critical forum for original research and fresh conversations from all over the world on the literatures, languages, and cultures of Southeast, South, and East Asia. It particularly welcomes theoretically-informed articles on the literary and other cultural productions of these regions.
SARE has been committed from its inception to featuring original and unpublished poems and short fiction.
In 2012, SARE published a special journal issue on EcoGothic Asia (59.1) co-edited by one of our members, which can be accessed here
Dr Devaleena Kundu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Dehradun, India. Former Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, she holds a PhD in English Literature from EFL University, Hyderabad, India. Her research primarily dwells on literary and popular cultural representations of death and dying. She is also interested in the depiction of crime and the criminal investigative eye in popular media.
Kathleen Shaughnessy is a fifth-year PhD candidate in English at the University of Iowa, USA. She specializes in intersections between the gothic, science, and crime in 19th century British literature. She is also interested in popular transnational and imperial fiction of the period, as well as neo-Victorian literature and globalgothic studies. Her current dissertation research studies how 19th century scientific innovations and imperial projects helped to form the Gothic monster in fin-de-siècle popular fiction.
Ananya Roy has completed her masters in English Literature from Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, India. Her focus (as an independent research scholar at present) on research is widespread ranging from the renaissance to the modern contemporary literary world, more significantly on gothic, horror, noir, crime, speculative and science fiction(s). Her works have been previously published on e-journals like IJELLH, IJOES, CLRI, IJECLS. Apart from academic articles, she also writes on social issues, winning numerous essay and debate competitions with her pieces being published on magazines like Competition Success Review (CSR) and Pratiyogita Darpan. She has recently self-published her poetry collection Kaleidosocope: Of Women Behind the Curtains (2020) on Notion Press besides her dystopian novel Torque (2018) on Amazon self-publish. Notion Press also published her winning piece in Songs in Isolation: A Collection of Poems (2020). Forever an enthusiast in everything uncanny and unnerving, Ananya would walk the extra mile in search of the multiverse of alternate realities of fiction!
Dr Ruth Heholt is Associate Professor of Dark Economies and Gothic literature at Falmouth University, UK. She is author of Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics (Routledge, 2020) and co-author of Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction (Anthem Press, 2022). She is co-editor of several collections including Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles (2018), and Haunted Landscapes (2017). She has organised international conferences including Folk Horror in the Twentieth Century (Falmouth and Lehigh Universities 2019) and is editor of the peer reviewed journal Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Her research interests include Gothic, Gender, Ghost Stories, Masculinity, Crime Fiction, Folk Horror, and Domestic Abuse.