Recent academic talks
Publications in progress
Research projects in progress
- 'Cultural Histories of Climate: The View from China', presentation at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment UK and Ireland biennial conference, University of Liverpool, 30 August-1 September 2023
- Workshop on 'Empire, Climate, and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century: Comparative Histories of China and the West', at the Global Society for Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress, Singapore, 19-22 June 2023
- Panellist at Global Challenge Forum, 'Climate Change: Facilitating a Just Transition', Monash University Malaysia, 18 May 2023
- Research seminar on 'Sustainability and (Radical) Posterity in Climate Fiction', Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges, Radboud University, 11 October 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, 17-19 August 2022
- Keynote at the Centre for Critical and Creative Writing (CCCW) annual symposium, 'Wicked Problems and Speculative Futures: Writing the Anthropocene', University of Queensland, 22-23 June 2022
Publications in progress
- With Xi Liu, Loredana Cesarino, Guohong Mai, and Yue Zhou, a chapter entitled ‘Whose World? Whose World Literature? Looking for Anthropocene Fiction in China’, in Literature and the Work of Universality, edited by Stefan Helgesson, Christina Kullburg, Paul Tenngart, and Alice Pick Duhan, forthcoming from De Gruyter.
- Special issue of the journal Intertexts on ‘Comparative Critical Approaches to the Anthropocene’ (edited with Xianmin Shen), accepted for publication in 2024.
- Chapter on climate and empire in The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and Environment, edited by Dennis Denisoff, invited for submission in 2024.
- The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Climate, in progress.
- Eleanor Anne Porden: Gender, Romanticism, and the Quest for Poethood, monograph in progress.
Research projects in progress
- ‘A History of Climate and Literature: A Comparison of Western and Chinese Texts’, XJTLU Research Development Fund, principal investigator. Team members: Loredana Cesarino and Xi Liu (co-investigators); Guohong Mai and Yue Zhou (research assistants). 2021-2023.