Upcoming talks

• Invited lecture at the UK-JP Student Climate Change Conference, on Zoom, 26th August to 1st September 2020.
• Invited presentation at 'The City in Climate Fictions' conference, Gustave Eiffel University, Champs-sur-Marne, France, 5th to 7th May, 2021.
• 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, 18th to 21st August, 2021

Recent talks

• 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
• Invited presentation at the 'Foodscapes of the Anthropocene: Risk, Justice, Conviviality' workshop, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, 6th December 2019
• 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, UK, 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', 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 the 'Climates of the Anthropocene' workshop, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, 2nd March 2018

​​Publications in progress​​

• Essays in Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene (edited by Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes for Routledge) and Foodscapes of the Anthropocene: Literary Perspectives from Asia (edited by Hannes Bergthaller and You-Ting Chen for Peter Lang), to be published in 2021. 
• The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (edited with Kelly Sultzbach), to be published in 2021.
• 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. 

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