I’ve just returned from a mini lecture tour in Germany! It was an honour to be invited to share my work on the current elemental aesthetics book project with colleagues and students at the University of Konstanz and TU Dresden, at the invitation of Prof. Timo Müller (Professor of...

The Black Fantastic: Ekow Eshun in Conversation with Ekow Eshun and Dr Caroline Edwards Friday 24th February 2023, 6-8pm, Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PD How are contemporary Black artists reimagining fantastic genres and motifs to address racism and social...

I’ve been working on a new chapter about trees as part of my current book project, Hopeful Inhumanism: The Elemental Aesthetics of Ecocatastrophe. Titled “Arboreal Revelation,” the chapter will extend my analysis in earlier case studies on rocks...

I’ve been teaching Pauline Hopkins’ lost race narrative, of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self (1902-3) on Birkbeck’s BA Science Fiction module over the past year and was delighted to have the chance to develop this work into a conference paper as part of a panel on...

Featured image: “Soma Goddess” by Emily Balivet, 2015. used with permission.   I was really pleased to be able to deliver my postponed keynote lecture at the “Idyll and Utopia” conference, organised by graduate students at Princeton University’s German...

I was delighted to be able to deliver my keynote online for the rescheduled 10th anniversary conference of Current Research into Speculative Fiction (CRSF) on the theme of “Survival,” which took place on 1-2 July 2021. My keynote was titled “Hypnotic Inhumanism: The Welcome...

This lecture considered how the idea of Utopia helps us galvanise political literary readings within the context of an increasingly dystopian sense of global crisis. Despite the seemingly relentless, dystopian nature of these issues, I argue that contemporary writers are responding by using...

  18 March 2021, 2-3.30pm GMT Online via Zoom (booking required)   I’ll be speaking about “Coastal Dystopias” as part of the Institute for Historical Research (IHR) series on “Coastal Connections.” Caroline will join Prof. Dr. Silja Klepp (Kiel), Dr...

I was delighted to be featured, alongside my Birkbeck colleague Prof. Roger Luckhurst,  in a recent radio programme on BBC Radio 3. Titled “The Robots Are Us” and presented by Ken Hollings, the programme looked at the legacy of Karel Čapek’s play Rossum’s Universal...

My brilliant colleague Amy Butt and I were invited to make a 45-minute programme for BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking on the subject of “Science Fiction.” The programme was recorded in late February, shortly before lockdown, and broadcast on 15 April 2020. It features Amy and I...

I’m currently working on my new book project, Arcadian Revenge: Science Fiction in the Era of Ecocatastrophe, which considers “ecocatastrophe” narratives in literature, film, graphic fiction, contemporary art and music. Drawing on debates in eco-socialism and anti-humanism, as well as...

I’m currently working on my new book project, Arcadian Revenge: Science Fiction in the Era of Ecocatastrophe, which considers “ecocatastrophe” narratives in literature, film, graphic fiction, contemporary art and music. Drawing on debates in eco-socialism and anti-humanism, as well as...

After the recent keynote I delivered for the London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC)’s annual conference, on the topic of automated labour and the question of free time in science fiction, I was thrilled to be invited by BBC radio producer Phil Tinline to contribute to a radio...

I was thrilled to be invited by the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick to give the opening keynote lecture for their conference “(Un)Fair Cities. Equity, Ideology and Utopia in Urban Texts” co-organised with the Association for Literary Urban Studies...

I’ve been working on a new side project on automation and utopian visions of futurity – from Marxist revolutionary theory to theories of post- and anti-work. When the London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC) invited me to deliver one of the keynote talks for this...

In July 2018, I was delighted to be invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at After Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, the fifth annual conference organised by Fantastika Journal. The theme of the 2018 conference was what comes ‘after’, with papers...

The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published a review article of China Miéville: Critical Essays, the collection I co-edited for Gylphi published in 2015. Gylphi also published Carl Freedman's excellent Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville, which was also...

I was really pleased to be invited to deliver one of the plenary addresses at the London Literary Society's annual conference in July 2017, which was organised around the theme of "Fantastic London: Dream, Speculation and Nightmare" and held at the Institute of English Studies,...

Birkbeck's Centre for Contemporary Literature recently organised a one-day conference titled "Dystopia Now," held at the School of Arts on 26 May 2017. I was really thrilled to be asked to deliver the opening keynote for the conference, alongside Dr Mark Bould who gave the...

In June 2017, I'll be returning to the Speculations Lecture Series run at King's College London to deliver a lecture on “Islands at the End of the World: The Pseudo-Apocalypses of Claire Fuller and Sam Taylor.” The talk will consider an intriguing sub-set of...