Elleke Boehmer is a writer, scholar and lifelong activist for justice and greater inclusion. She is Professor of World Literature in English and Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at the University of Oxford, UK. She is a Fellow of the English Academy, of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Historical Society. She is a Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. She has been a Rhodes Trustee since 2016 and became the Rhodes Trust’s representative on the Atlantic Institute Governing Board in October 2024. She believes passionately in giving back and in the power of storytelling towards reparation and repair. She is the award-winning author of many books, both academic and fictional. Indian Arrivals 1870–1915: Networks of British Empire (2015) was the winner of the biennial ESSE prize 2016. Elleke’s fiction includes To the Volcano, and other stories (2019; commended for the Elizabeth Jolley Prize), which is her second collection of short stories, and The Shouting in the Dark (winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize 2018). Her novel Ice Shock is forthcoming. Her work has been translated into many languages, including German, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Thai and Mandarin. In 2024 she held an International Visiting Fellowship award at the University of Adelaide, Australia and in 2025 she is STIAS visiting fellow in South Africa.

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