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...

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...

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...

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...