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Orsini, Francesca (2024) 'Against minoritization: five strategies for world literature.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. pp. 1-19. (Forthcoming)

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Literary Multilingualism in the Age of the Vernacular.' In: Anjaria, Ulka and Nerlekar, Anjali, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, C1P1-C1N9.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Alphabet Poems and other Urdu Religious Booklets.' International Journal of Islam in Asia, 3 (1-2). pp. 128-153.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Alphabet Poems and other Urdu Religious Booklets.' International Journal of Islam in Asia, 3 (1-2). pp. 128-153.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary culture and world literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (South Asia Research)

Novillo-Corvalán, Patricia and Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Introduction.' Journal of World Literature, 8 (2). pp. 177-189.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'World Literature as a Special Issue.' Journal of World Literature, 8 (2). pp. 290-312.

Orsini, Francesca (2023) 'Review of: Paper, Performance, and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India. By Farhat Hasan.' Journal of Islamic Studies, 34 (2). pp. 276-279.

Mallinson, James (2023) 'Yogi Insignia in Mughal Painting and Avadhi Romances.' In: Orsini, Francesca, (ed.), Objects, Images, Stories: Simon Digby’s historical method. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Orsini, Francesca (2022) 'Book review: Pasha M. Khan, The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu.' The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 59 (3). pp. 406-408.

Orsini, Francesca (2022) 'Awqāt/Aukāt.' In: Menon, Dilip M., (ed.), Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South. New Delhi: Routledge, pp. 325-336. (Transdisciplinary Souths)

Orsini, Francesca (2022) 'The Post-Colonial Magazine Archive.' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 45 (2). pp. 250-267.

Nerlekar, Anjali and Orsini, Francesca (2022) 'Introduction: Post-colonial Archives.' South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 45 (2). pp. 211-219.

Dwyer, Rachel and Ashton, Helen (2021) '‘I do fatafat constipation with goras in tip-top gora English’: Hinglish and English accents and speech in Jab Tak Hai Jaan.' In: Orsini, Francesca and Ravikant, (eds.), Hinglish Live: Language mixing across media. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.

Orsini, Francesca (2020) 'Significant Geographies in the Shadow Lines.' In: Adami, Esterino, Concilio, Carmen and Vescovi, Alessandro, (eds.), Crossing the Shadow Lines : Essays on the Topicality of Amitav Ghosh’s Modern Classic. Turin: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne – Università degli Studi di Torino, pp. 171-185.

Orsini, Francesca (2020) 'From Eastern Love to Eastern Song: Re-translating Asian Poetry.' Comparative Critical Studies, 17 (2). pp. 183-203.

Orsini, Francesca (2020) 'Poetic traffic in a multilingual literary culture: Equivalence, parallel aesthetics, and language-stretching’.' In: Reynolds, Matthew, (ed.), Prismatic Translation. London: Legenda, pp. 51-71. (Transcript (London, England), 10.)

Orsini, Francesca (2019) 'Present Absence: Book circulation, Indian vernaculars and world literature in the nineteenth century.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 22 (3). pp. 310-328.

Orsini, Francesca (2019) 'Between Qasbas and Cities: Language Shifts and Literary Continuities in North India in the Long Eighteenth Century.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 39 (1). pp. 68-81.

Marzagora, Sara, Orsini, Francesca and Laachir, Karima, eds. (2019) Multilingual Locals and Textual Circulation Before Colonialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (Special issue: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 39, no. 1)

Orsini, Francesca, Marzagora, Sara and Laachir, Karima (2019) 'Multilingual locals and textual circulation before colonialism.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 39 (1). pp. 63-67.

Orsini, Francesca and Zecchini, Laetitia (2019) 'The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia Introduction.' Journal of World Literature, 4 (1). pp. 1-2.

Orsini, Francesca (2019) 'World Literature, Indian Views, 1920s–1940s.' Journal of World Literature, 4 (1). pp. 56-81.

Laachir, Karima, Marzagora, Sara and Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Multilingual locals and significant geographies: For a ground-up and located approach to world literature.' Modern Languages Open, 1 (19). pp. 1-8.

Laachir, Karima, Marzagora, Sara and Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Significant Geographies: in lieu of world literature.' Journal of World Literature, 3 (3). pp. 290-310.

Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Mysteries of the Indian Jungle: Emilio Salgari's orientalist adventures.' In: Markovits, Claude, Leucci, Tiziana and Fourcade, Marie, (eds.), L’Inde et l’Italie: Rencontres intellectuelles, politiques et artistiques. Paris: Editions EHESS. (Collection Purushartha; 35)

Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Na Turk, na Hindu: Shared language, accents and located meanings.' In: Kothari, Rita, (ed.), A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Orsini, Francesca (2017) 'The Social History of a Genre: Kathas across Languages in Early Modern North India.' The Medieval History Journal, 20 (1). pp. 1-37.

Orsini, Francesca (2017) 'Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English Village Novels.' In: Ciocca, R. and Srivastava, N., (eds.), Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 61-85.

Orsini, Francesca (2015) 'The Multilingual Local in World Literature.' Comparative Literature, 67 (4). pp. 345-374.

Orsini, Francesca and Butler Schofield, Katherine (2015) 'Introduction.' In: Orsini, Francesca and Butler Schofield, Katherine, (eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Cambridge, UK: Open Books, pp. 1-30.

Orsini, Francesca and Butler Schofield, Katherine, eds. (2015) Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Cambridge, UK: Open Books.

Widdess, Richard (2015) 'Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music.' In: Orsini, Francesca and Schofield, Katherine Butler, (eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.

Orsini, Francesca (2015) 'Texts and Tellings: Kathas in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.' In: Orsini, Francesca and Butler Schofield, Katherine, (eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Cambridge, UK: Open Books, pp. 327-358.

Orsini, Francesca (2015) 'Whose Amnesia? Literary Modernity in Multilingual South Asia.' The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2 (2). pp. 266-272.

Orsini, Francesca (2015) 'Booklets and Sants: Religious Publics and Literary History.' South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 38 (3). pp. 435-449.

Orsini, Francesca (2015) 'Dil Maange more: Cultural contexts of Hinglish in contemporary India.' African Studies, 74 (2). pp. 199-220.

Orsini, Francesca (2014) 'Inflected Kathas: Sufis and Krishna Bhaktas in Awadh.' In: Dalmia, Vasudha and Faruqui, Munis, (eds.), Religious Interactions in Mughal India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 195-232.

Orsini, Francesca and Sheikh, Samira (2014) 'Introduction.' In: Orsini, Francesca and Sheikh, Samira, (eds.), After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Orsini, Francesca and Sheikh, Samira (2014) 'Introduction.' In: Sheikh, Samira and Orsini, Francesca, (eds.), After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-44.

Orsini, Francesca and Sheikh, Samira, eds. (2014) After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Orsini, Francesca (2014) 'Traces of a multilingual world: Hindavi in Persian texts.' In: Orsini, Francesca and Sheikh, Samira, (eds.), After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in fifteenth-century north India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 411-444.

Orsini, Francesca (2014) '“Krishna is the Truth of Man” Mir ‘Abdul Wahid Bilgrami's Haqā’iq-i Hindī (Indian Truths) and the circulation of dhrupad and bishnupad.' In: Busch, Allison and de Bruijn, Thomas, (eds.), Culture and Circulation : literature in motion in early modern India. Leiden: Brill, pp. 222-246. (Brill's Indological Library ; volume 46)

Orsini, Francesca, ed. (2013) The History of the Book in South Asia. London: Ashgate. (History of the Book in the East)

Orsini, Francesca (2013) '‘Decreed out of existence: Multilingual India and World Literature’.' In: Parks, Tim and Zuccato, Edoardo, (eds.), Towards a Global Literature/Verso uni letteratura globalizzata. Milan: marcos y marcos, pp. 37-46. (Testo a fronte)

Orsini, Francesca (2012) 'How to do multilingual literary history? Lessons from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century north India.' Indian Economic and Social History Review, 49 (2). pp. 225-246.

Orsini, Francesca, ed. (2010) Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu literary culture. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Bandagani and Naukari: Studying transitions in Political Culture and Service under the North Indian Sultanates, 13th-16th centuries.' In: Orsini, Francesca, (ed.), After Timur Came: Multiple Spaces of Cultural Production and Circulation in fifteenth century North India. London: SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Orsini, Francesca (2009) Print and Pleasure: Popular literature and entertaining fictions in colonial north India. New Delhi: Permanent Black.

Orsini, Francesca (2006) 'Cannons and Rubber boats: Oriana Fallaci and the 'Clash of Civilizations'.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 8 (3). pp. 444-460.

Dwyer, Rachel (2006) 'Kiss or Tell? Declaring Love in Hindi Films.' In: Orsini, Francesca, (ed.), Love in South Asia. A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 289-302.

Orsini, Francesca (2006) 'Love Letters.' In: Orsini, Francesca, (ed.), Love in South Asia. A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 228-258.

Orsini, Francesca, ed. (2006) Love in South Asia: a cultural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications)

Shackle, Christopher (2006) 'The Shifting Sands of Love.' In: Orsini, Francesca, (ed.), Love in South Asia: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 87-108.

Orsini, Francesca (2005) 'A Review Symposium.' Indian Economic and Social History Review, 42.

Orsini, Francesca (2004) 'Pandits, Printers and Others: Publishing in nineteenth-century Benares.' In: Gupta, Abhijit and Chakravorty, Swapan, (eds.), Print Areas: Book history in India. New Delhi: Permanent Black, pp. 103-138.

Orsini, Francesca (2004) 'Detective Novels. A Commercial Genre in Nineteenth-Century North India.' In: Blackburn, Stuart H. and Dalmia, Vasudha, (eds.), India's Literary History. Essays on the Nineteenth Century. Delhi: Permanent Black, pp. 435-482.

Orsini, Francesca (2004) 'Introduction to Oxford India Premchand.' In: Rai, Alok, (ed.), Oxford India Premchand. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-14.

Orsini, Francesca (2004) 'The Reticent Autobiographer. Mahadevi Varma's Writings.' In: Arnold, David and Blackburn, Stuart H., (eds.), Telling Lives in India. Biography, Autobiography, and Life History. Delhi / Bangalore: Permanent Black, pp. 54-82.

Orsini, Francesca (2002) 'India in the Mirror of World Fiction.' New Left Review (13). pp. 75-88.

Orsini, Francesca (2002) The Hindi Public Sphere 1920-1940. Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Orsini, Francesca (2000) 'Rāshtrīy śiksā banām hindīsāhitya’ (National education vs Hindi literature).' In: Agraval, Purushottam and Kumar, Sanjay, (eds.), Hindī naī cāl men ḍhalī. New Delhi: Deshkal Prajashan, pp. 38-55.

Orsini, Francesca (1996) The Hindi public sphere, 1920-1940. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029537