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Research interests
Research interests
All of my research interests are in the broad area of Modern and Contemporary Literature and are informed by Environmental Humanities perspectives. I have published widely on ecocriticism, eco-poetry, island literary studies and nature writing. I co-authored Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020: Land Lines, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press, and my first sole-authored monograph, Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago was also published in 2022 in the Rowman and Littlefield ‘Rethinking the Island’ series.
I have recently completed a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the Department of English investigating the representation of farming in the rural and nature writing of the long twentieth century. I am currently completing the resulting monograph, The Pen and the Plough. I am also a writer of creative non-fiction and co-edited and contributed to the diverse collection of nature writing Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the 21st Century, with an Introduction by Bernardine Evaristo (Hodder and Stoughton, 2021). I am a lecturer in Liberal Arts and English.
Teaching
I teach on the Liberal Arts units, ‘The Art of Writing’, ‘Experiencing the Aesthetic’ and ‘The Public Role of the Humanities’, and on two units of the English MA: ‘Literature and the Environment: Diverse Perspectives’ and ‘Writing in the Elements’.
Publications
Recent publications
11/01/2024'There's something you need to hear':
Communicating a World-in-Crisis
The View from the Field
The Literature and Politics of the Environment
From typewriter to ploughshare
The Agricultural History Review
New Forms of Environmental Writing
Contemporary Women's Writing
Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization , by Kate Rigby
Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology