Stella Borg Barthet was awarded her PhD by the University of Malta for her thesis on Myth and History in the West African Novel in 1997. She is Professor in the Department of English at the same university, where she teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, in 18th and 19th century English and American fiction and in literature connected to the Mediterranean region. She mediates the Department's membership in international associations and she is the Academic Coordinator for ERASMUS students.
Stella Borg Barthet convened the conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) in March 2005 and was appointed adjudicator for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize later the same year. She edited the proceedings of the conference, published in 2010 by Rodopi as two volumes, A Sea for Encounters: Essays Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth and Shared Waters: Soundings in Postcolonial Literatures. She is the author of papers and book chapters, mostly on Australian and African fiction. Her current research interests include postcolonial, Anglo-Arab writing and Migrant literature. Stella Borg Barthet succeeded in obtaining ERASMUS + funding in 2012, 2016 and in 2024 to manage programmes focused on Mediterranean Literature with partners from Goldsmiths College, the National University of Ireland, the Universities of Florence, Nova Gorica, Minho, Cyprus, and Carthage, Tunisia. Research Interests Eighteenth and nineteenth century English fiction Nineteenth century American writing Postcolonialism Afro-American writing Anglo-Arab writing Maltese writing in English Migrant Literature
Eighteenth and nineteenth century English fiction
Nineteenth century American writing
Postcolonialism
Afro-American writing
Anglo-Arab writing
Maltese writing in English
BORG BARTHET, S., 2009. Enduring Narratives: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. Negritude: legacy and present relevance, , pp. 181.
ENG1174 - English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction
ENG1274 - English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: Further Studies