My monograph, Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel, is now out with Cambridge University Press.
My recent talks include:
Publications in progress include:
My recent talks include:
- invited presentation at the 'Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene' workshop, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 11th to 13th September 2019
- plenary at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE UKI) biennial conference, University of Plymouth, U.K., 4th to 6th September 2019
- plenary at the 3rd annual conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASLE-ASEAN), University of Philippines-Diliman, 14th to 16th June 2019
- keynote at 'Sea Change: Wavescapes in the Anthropocene' conference, University of Split, Croatia, 3rd to 6th December 2018
- workshop on 'Bridging the Environmental Humanities and Sciences', which I led with Matthew Evans, at Royal Holloway University of London, 8th August 2018; this was the first in the 'How Like a Leaf: Art, Nature and the World' series of doctoral training workshops, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the TECHNE consortium
- invited presentation at 'Climates of the Anthropocene' workshop, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, 2nd March 2018
- plenary at 'Mediating Climate Change' conference, University of Leeds, U.K., 4th-6th July 2017
Publications in progress include:
- an edited volume, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (edited with Kelly Sultzbach), for Cambridge University Press, to be published in 2021
- a monograph on the life, letters and poetry of Romantic writer Eleanor Anne Porden: this study will examine Porden in the context of the relationship between literature, science and gender in the early nineteenth century, drawing not just on Porden's poetry but on her many letters, which insist on women's right of access to education, research, and publication.