{"id":26419,"date":"2025-05-07T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=26419"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:30:43","slug":"spotlight-on-research-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2025\/spotlight-on-research-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Research: Contract Instructor John Coleman has published a new article in Modern Fiction Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Spotlight on Research: Contract Instructor John Coleman has published a new article in Modern Fiction Studies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xmsonormal wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Dr. John <span style=\"color: black\">Coleman<\/span> for the publication of his<span style=\"color: black\"> new article, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/1\/article\/958565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru&#8217;s <i>Transmission<\/i>&nbsp;as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions,&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color: black\"> which has recently been published in <i>Modern Fiction Studies<\/i>. <\/span>Coleman<span style=\"color: black\"> argues that Kunzru\u2019s novel <i>Transmission<\/i>&nbsp;allegorizes the experiences of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) authors, implicitly querying Penguin\u2019s self-branding as an antidote to racialized disparities in literary production. <i>Transmission<\/i>&nbsp;self-reflexively critiques the influence of publishing agents helping author postcolonial and similarly constructed niche genres of literature. Through this critique, the novel figures the distance a work\u2019s nominal author has from controlling reception over their oeuvre and persona. <i>Transmission<\/i>&nbsp;is also canny about casting Penguin\u2019s diversity initiatives as injecting sought-after authorial brands into the market, something <\/span>Coleman<span style=\"color: black\">&#8216;s article also works to critique.<\/span> As an open-access essay, Coleman\u2019s essay is ready to read and enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-26420 size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" role=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/John-Coleman-article-240x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26420\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Front cover of the Plume edition of Hari Kunzru&#8217;s Transmission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. John Coleman for the publication of his new article, &#8220;The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru&#8217;s Transmission&nbsp;as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions,&#8221; which has recently been published in Modern Fiction Studies. Coleman argues that Kunzru\u2019s novel Transmission&nbsp;allegorizes the experiences of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) authors, implicitly querying Penguin\u2019s self-branding as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,127,33,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-publications-successes","category-graduate-student-successes","category-news","category-sor"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27356,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419\/revisions\/27356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}