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Upcoming academic talks​
  • 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
  • Workshop leader, '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, 19th to 22nd June, 2023

Recent academic talks
  • Keynote at the Centre for Critical and Creative Writing (CCCW) annual symposium, 'Wicked Problems and Speculative Futures: Writing the Anthropocene', University of Queensland, 22nd to 23rd June, 2022
  • 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

​​​Publications in progress​​
  • Special issue of the journal Intertexts on  ‘Comparative Critical Approaches to the Anthropocene’ (edited with Xianmin Shen), for publication in late 2022/early 2023.
  • Eleanor Anne Porden: Gender, Romanticism, and the Quest for Poethood, monograph to be completed in 2022.
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Climate and Literature, to be completed in 2023.

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.

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