About
My primary research interests are the Environmental Humanities, contemporary literature (especially poetry) and the relationships between literature and science. After teaching at Queen Mary and UCL, I joined the department as the William Noble Research Fellow in 2015 and was made a lecturer in 2017. I am Environmental Humanities co-lead for CHASE (Center for Health, Arts, Society and Environment) and I co-direct the Literature and Science Hub. My first monograph, Poetry and the Anthropocene, explores questions of ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry. I have published widely about literature, science and environment for both an academic and public-facing outlets including The Independent, Art Agenda, The Times Literary Supplement, RA Magazine, Newsweek and the BBC. I am co-editor of a new environmental humanities book series Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment for Liverpool University Press.
I am currently writing a creative-critical book called "Terror Firma" for Fitzcarraldo Editions which explores horror (as a genre and a feeling) in relation to environmental crisis.
Other projects and interests include: the aesthetics of climate change; energy humanities (particularly ‘petro-culture’); Liverpool in Literature; the literary history of sweetness (especially, but not only, in relation to sugar); apocalypse; the intersections of health and ecology; slime; poetry and delight/joy.
I welcome applications from prospective graduate students interested in working on any aspect of the Environmental Humanities (including fiction, poetry, performance, film and art) or post-1945 poetry.
My Academic Support and Feedback hours for the spring semester are 3-5 Fridays in my office (3.09/19-23 Abercromby Square) or MS Teams (email for appointment)
Funded Fellowships
- William Noble Research Fellowship (University of Liverpool, 2015)