Upcoming academic talks
Recent academic talks
Publications in progress
Research projects in progress
- 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.