Upcoming talks
Recent talks
Publications in progress
Research projects in progress
- Keynote at the Centre for Creative and Critical Writing (CCCW) annual symposium, University of Queensland, 22nd to 23rd June, 2022
- Invited presentation at the 174th Nobel Symposium, '(World) Literature and the Problem of the Universal', part of the 'Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures' research initiative, University of Stockholm, 17th to 19th August, 2022
Recent talks
- Keynote at the STREAMS conference, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 3rd to 7th August, 2021
- Research seminar on 'A Transtextual Approach to Realism in the Anthropocene', Centre for Health, Medical, and Environmental Humanities, University of Liverpool, 23rd April 2021
- Research webinar on 'Realism(s) in the Anthropocene: Ethical and Representational Challenges', European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE), 16th April, 2021
- Keynote, 'Ecologies, Communities, Imaginaries', 2021 Comparative Literature Conference, University of South Carolina, 12th to 13th March, 2021
- Research seminar on 'Fiction, Realism, and Ethics in the Anthropocene', Centre for Environmental Humanities and Department of English, University of Bristol, 19th November 2020
- Invited lecture at the UK-JP Student Climate Change Conference, 26th August to 1st September 2020
- Plenary roundtable, '18th-century in the 21st: Habitat and Ecology', at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, St Hugh's College, Oxford, 8th to 10th January, 2020
Publications in progress
- The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (edited with Kelly Sultzbach), in press, to be published in late 2021/early 2022.
- The Cambridge Introduction to Climate and Literature, to be completed in 2021.
- Eleanor Anne Porden: Gender, Romanticism, and the Quest for Poethood, monograph to be completed in 2021.
- Special issue of the journal Intertexts on ‘Comparative Critical Approaches to the Anthropocene’ (edited with Xianmin Shen), for publication in late 2022/early 2023.
Research projects in progress
- ‘A History of Climate and Literature: A Comparison of Western and Chinese Texts’, XJTLU Research Development Fund, principal investigator, with Loredana Cesarino and Xi Liu (co-investigators) and Guohong Mai (research assistant), RMB 96,750, 2021-2023.