My research interests lie primarily in the relationship between climate and literature, particularly in contemporary climate fiction. Trained as a Romanticist, I also have interests in women鈥檚 writing of the British Romantic period and in epic poetry.
Born and raised in Malaysia, I attended university in Australia and then worked at universities in Finland, the United Kingdom, China, and Malaysia, before coming to Queen鈥檚. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, and a Visiting Professor at Xi鈥檃n Jiaotong Liverpool University. I was President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment UK and Ireland (ASLE UKI) from 2011 to 2015, and, in 2012, was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University.
I am currently writing a study of the life and writings of the poet Eleanor Anne Porden in the context of poethood and the gendering of knowledge in the British Romantic period. I am also beginning to research comparative cultural histories of climate.
I welcome enquires from graduate students interested in supervision in ecocriticism, especially questions around climate and the Anthropocene, in British Romanticism and gender, and in the epic form from the eighteenth century onwards.
Ecocriticism, Climate fiction, British Romantic women鈥檚 writing, The epic
- With Xi Liu, Loredana Cesarino, Guohong Mai, and Yue Zhou. 鈥Whose World? Whose World Literature? Looking for Climate Fiction in China鈥. Literature and the Work of Universality, edited by Alice Duhan, Stefan Helgesson, Christina Kullburg, and Paul Tenngart, De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 315-32.
- 鈥Gender and Agency in a Keralan Foodscape: The Women of Aathi鈥. Foodscapes of the Anthropocene: Literary Perspectives from Asia, edited by Hannes Bergthaller and You-Ting Chen, Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 21-41.
- With Raksha Pandya-Wood, Azliyana Azhari, Hamimatunnisa Johar, Nurfashareena Muhamad, and Tin Tin Su. 2024. 鈥淪ystematic Review of Climate Change-Induced Health Impacts Facing Malaysia: Gaps in Research鈥. Environmental Research: Health, vol. 2, no. 032002, 2024.
- With Xianmin Shen. 鈥淐omparative Critical Perspectives on the Anthropocene: An Introduction鈥. Intertexts, vol. 27, 2023, pp. 1-10.
- 鈥Transtextual Realism for the Climatological Collective鈥. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach, Cambridge UP, 2022, pp. 283-95.
- 鈥溾赌We Have Lost Yardsticks by Which to Measure鈥: Arendtian Ethics and the Narration of Scale in the 础苍迟丑谤辞辫辞肠别苍别鈥. Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene: Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity, edited by Gabriele D眉rbeck and Philip H眉pkes, Routledge, 2021, pp. 127-42.
- 鈥Climate and History in the Anthropocene: Realist Narrative and the Framing of Time鈥. Climate and Literature, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 246-62.
- With Axel Goodbody. 鈥淭he Rise of the Climate Change Novel鈥. Climate and Literature, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra. Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 229-45.
- 鈥淭he Rest is Silence: Postmodern and Postcolonial Possibilities in Climate Change Fiction鈥. Studies in the Novel, vol. 50, no.1, 2018, pp. 26-42.
- 鈥The Unsustainable Aesthetics of Sustainability: The Sense of an Ending in Jeanette Winterson鈥檚 The Stone God鈥鈥. Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham, and Louise Squire, Manchester UP, 2017, pp. 177-94.
- 鈥Borrowing the World: Climate Change Fiction and the Problem of Posterity鈥, Metaphora, vol. 2, 2017, pp. 1-16.
- 鈥溾赌楳y Job is to Take Care of You鈥: Climate Change, Humanity, and Cormac McCarthy鈥檚 The Road鈥. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 62, no.3, 2016, pp. 519-540.
- 鈥Climate Change in Literature and Literary Studies: From Cli-Fi, Climate Change Theater and Ecopoetry to Ecocriticism and Climate Change Criticism鈥. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 7, 2016, pp. 266-282.
- 鈥Historicizing the Networks of Ecology and Culture: Eleanor Anne Porden and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change鈥. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 21, 2015, pp. 27-46.
- With Hannes Bergthaller, Rob Emmett, Agnes Kneitz, Susanna Lidstr枚m, Shane McCorristine, Dana Phillips, Isabel P茅rez Ramos, Kate Rigby, and Libby Robin, 鈥淢apping Common Ground: Ecocriticism, Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities鈥. Environmental Humanities, vol. 5, 2014, pp. 261-276.
- 鈥Care and Gender in a Climate-Changed Future: Maggie Gee鈥檚 The Ice People鈥. Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson, Wesleyan UP, 2014, pp. 127-42. (Translated into traditional Chinese in Global Ecological Discourse 鈥 Local Expressions, edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Huei-Chu Chu, and Dana Phillips, Chung-Hsing UP, 2016, pp. 137-54.)
- 鈥Environmental Care Ethics: Notes toward a New Materialist Critique鈥. 厂测尘辫濒辞办脓, vol. 21, nos.1-2, 2013, pp. 125-135.
- 鈥Eleanor Anne Porden鈥檚 C艙ur de Lion: History, Epic, and Romance鈥. Women鈥檚 Writing, vol. 19, no. 3, 2012, pp. 351-71.
- 鈥溾赌楤lending Science with Literature鈥: The Royal Institution, Eleanor Anne Porden, and The Veils鈥. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 33, no.1, 2011, pp. 35-52.
- With Adam Trexler. 鈥Climate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism鈥. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 2, no.2, 2011, pp. 185-200.
- 鈥Ecocriticism, Genre, and Climate Change: Reading the Utopian Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson鈥檚 Science in the Capital Trilogy鈥. English Studies, vol. 91, no.7, 2010, pp.744-760.
- With Catherine Brace. 鈥Recovering Inspiration in the Spaces of Creative Writing鈥. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 35, no.2, 2010, pp. 399-413.
- Edited with Catherine Brace. Process: Landscape and Text. Rodopi, 2010.
- 鈥Satire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women鈥檚 Poetry: Minding the Gap鈥. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 33, no.1, 2010, pp.67-87.
- With Catherine Brace. 鈥淭he Importance of Process鈥. Process: Landscape and Text, edited by CatherineBrace and Adeline Johns-Putra, Rodopi, 2010, pp. 29-44.
- 鈥Anna Seward鈥檚 Translations of Horace: Poetic Dress, Poetic Matter and the Lavish Paraphrase鈥. Translators, Interpreters, Mediators: Women Writers 1700-1900, edited by Gillian E. Dow, Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 111-28.
- 鈥Home and the Harem: Early Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Representations of Women by Women鈥. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, vol. 2 no.3, 2006.
- 鈥淕endering Telemachus: Anna Seward and the Epic Rewriting of F茅nelon鈥檚 罢茅濒茅尘补辩耻别鈥. Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982, edited by Bernard Schweizer, Ashgate, 2006, pp. 85-97
- Heroes and Housewives: Women鈥檚 Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (1770-1835). Peter Lang, 2001.
- 鈥Satirising the Courtly Woman and Defending the Domestic Woman: Mock Epics and Women Poets in the Romantic Age鈥. Romanticism on the Net, vol. 15, 1999.
- 鈥Christ as Woman鈥檚 Seed: Romantic Women Poets Rewriting the Bible鈥. Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, vol.6, 1999, pp. 59-81.
