I am a scholar of English literature, with primary expertise in the relationship between climate and literature. I also have research interests in women's writing of the British Romantic age (1780-1830) and in epic poetry.
I am a Professor of English Literature at Queen's University, Canada. I also hold several honorary positions:Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong; Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool; Visiting Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; and Adjunct Professor at Monash University Malaysia. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment UK and Ireland (ASLE UKI) from 2011 to 2015.
Born and raised in Malaysia, I gained my BA (Hons) and PhD from Monash University in Australia. I began my academic career at the University of Tampere in Finland; I then went on to positions at the universities of Exeter and Surrey in the UK, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China, and Monash University Malaysia. In December 2024, I took up my current position in Canada.
