Ralph teaches in the English program, and has particular interests in the fields of Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures.
Since completing his doctorate Ralph has worked at the University of Otago (1990-1991) and the University of Waikato (1992-2003) in New Zealand, and since 2004 he has been at the University of Tasmania. He has published widely on colonial and postcolonial fictions, and has written or edited fifteen books. As part of his ‘Raj Recovery Project’ he has prepared scholarly editions of four Anglo-Indian (Raj) novels for Oxford University Press India: Love Besieged, by Charles E. Pearce (2003); Lilamani, by Maud Diver (2004); Daughters of India, by Margaret Wilson (2007); and The Broken Road, by A.E.W. Mason (2008). His edition of Flora Annie Steel’s The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (co-edited with Anna Johnston) was published in OUP’s World’s Classics Series in 2010.
Ralph is a past Chairperson of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (SPACLALS), and past Vice-President (New Zealand) of the Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia (ASAA). He currently co-edits new literatures review with Anna Johnston, and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and The Atlantic Critical Review. He is an Associate of the Centre for Postcolonial Writing (CPW), Monash University.
