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Samuel Solnick

Dr Samuel Solnick
BA (Dublin), MA, PhD (London), PGCert (FHEA)

Senior Lecturer in English Literature
English

Professional Activities

• The White Review (Contributing Editor)
• Memberships Include: ASLE, BSLS, ASLE-UKI, Lyricology, BACLS
• Collaborations/public engagement/outreach with a variety of external arts organisations including: ArtReview/Modern Forms, LoudCrowd, FACT, Tate Liverpool, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, SRUK, Shrinking Space/Metal

Conference Roles

  • 'Becoming (In)Human(E) in the Anthropocene'; Keynote Paper at (In)Human(E) Conference, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (University College London, 2018)
  • 'Poetry and the Anthropocene', by Invitation (Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, 2016)
  • 'Telling (ourselves) stories in the Anthropocene’ , by Invitation (Doreen Massey Annual Event, The Open University, 2016)
  • 'What sort of poetry', by Invitation ('Poetry, Creativity, Environment' event, University of Leeds, 2016)

Editorships

  • The White Review (Contributing Editor, 2012 - present)

Event Roles

  • 'Anthropocene Energies', by Invitation (Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol, 2019)
  • 'The End of a World' , by Invitation (Departmental Research Seminar, University of Liverpool, 2016)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Co-director, Literature and Science Hub (Department, 2015 - present)
  • Employability Lead for English (Department, 2018 - present)
  • Environmental Humanities Lead – Centre for Health, Arts, Society and Environment (CHASE) (University, 2016 - present)
  • Steering Committee – Centre for New and International Writing (Department, 2015 - present)
  • HSS Representative – Task and Finish Group for Research Staff Development

Organisations I have been associated with

  • Tate Liverpool (2018 - present)
  • FACT - Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (2018 - present)
  • Alder Hey Hospital (2016 - present)
  • Shrinking Space/Metal (2019 - present)
  • ArtReview/Modern Forms (2018 - present)
  • LoudCrowd (2017 - present)

Professional Body Memberships

  • British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies (Member, 2018 - present)
  • Lyricology (Member, 2016 - present)
  • British Society for Literature and Science (Member, 2015 - present)
  • Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Member, 2012 - present)
  • UK & Ireland Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Member, 2018 - present)

Publication Reviews

  • Referee, Invited (ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Pre-publication)
  • Referee, Invited (Geoscience Communication, Pre-publication)
  • Referee, Invited (Textual Practice, Pre-publication)
  • (Routledge Gender Studies, 2016 - present)
  • Referee, Invited (Mosaic, Pre-publication)