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...

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’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...

Since we organised a conference dedicated to British novelist Maggie Gee's writing in 2012, Dr Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge) and I have been co-editing a book of scholarly essays examining her novels and short stories. Maggie Gee: Critical Essays is published by Gylphi...