糖心Vlog

Research group

Ecocriticism, Green Writing, and Literary Geographies

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Postgraduate Research and Doctoral study

At PhD level, we offer research supervision in both practice-as-research (PaR) and towards assessment via thesis and viva voce examination.

Please contact our academics directly to discuss research supervision opportunities, or explore our research degrees and what to expect from a degree in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies. You can also find out how to apply for postgraduate research at 糖心Vlog, or use  if you are interested in searching for further research opportunities at 糖心Vlog.

Informing education

The research carried out by our members informs education, and shapes courses and modules within the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies

Courses and modules include:

 

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MA Wild Writing: Literature, Landscape and the Environment

The Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies taught masters courses in English and comparative literature, include MA Wild Writing: Literature and the Environment. This is a unique research-led and interdisciplinary programme that combines literary criticism, creative writing, biological sciences and field work.

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Highlights of our research

Funding

糖心Vlog/ESRC (2016-2018)

  • ESRC/UoE Impact Acceleration Account-Impact Fund (拢5578).
  • ESRC/UoE Impact Acceleration Account-Impact Fund (拢9424).
  • ESRC/UoE Impact Acceleration Account-Impact Fund (拢9833).
  • ESRC/UoE Impact Acceleration Account-Active Engagement Fund (拢2000).

Our research

Professor Maria Fumagalli

  • Maria has completed her fourth monograph provisionally entitled Derek Walcott's Painters for which she was awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust (2016-2019). on Derek Walcott and Peter Doig, Paramin, Morning for Wasafiri.
  • 2016-2018 - Reconceptualizing troubled border relations: promoting cross-border collaboration, cooperation and solidarity between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the wake of the denationalization crisis in Hispaniola.

Dr Chris Bundock

  • Chris is currently working on a book project: Living From: The Gothic and Vitality.

Publications

Below are various publications from our members. To explore our member鈥檚 other publications, please visit their staff profiles.

Books

Dr James Canton

Professor Susan Oliver:

  • Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation, (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming July 2021)

Professor Maria Christina Fumagalli:

Dr Chris Bundock:

  • 鈥淲hen falsehood can look so like the truth.鈥 British Association of Romantic Studies (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK) 25-28 July 2019.
  • 鈥淧assionate Science in Keats鈥檚 鈥楲amia鈥 and Marsh鈥檚 The Beetle.鈥 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois) 8-11 August 2019. 

Papers

  • A collaboration between Professor Maria Christina Fumagalli and Bridget Wooding (OBMICA) in Santo Domingo is ongoing. A joint paper has been submitted for 'The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic' edited by Edward Paulino and Megan Myers under advance contract with Amherst College Press ().
  • Professor Susan Oliver: "", Yearbook of English Studies. 47 (2017), pp. 279-299

Book Chapters

  • Professor Susan Oliver: 鈥淩eading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene鈥, in Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward, ed. C. McCracken-Flesher and M. Wickman, (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
  • Professor Susan Oliver: "", in The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, ed. L. Eckel and C. Elliott (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 340- 353
  • Professor Maria Fumagalli: Ways of Seeing: Derek Walcott and the Visual Arts. In: Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017: In Various Light,. Editors: Doumerc, E. and Goethals, H., . (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), 1-5275-8401-1
  • Professor Karin Littau: 鈥淛ust Ask the Stones鈥: Eco-Translation, Natural History, and Geomedia. In: History as a Translation of the Past: Case Studies from the West. Editors: Alonzi, L., (Bloomsbury. 2023), pp. 167- 189.

Articles

  • Professor Maria Fumagalli: 鈥樷欌, Caribbean Quarterly 60.3 (2014), pp.1-18.

Bulletins

  • A trilingual (English, French, and Spanish) bulletin devoted to On the Edge by OBMICA summarises the activities in  (.pdf), (.pdf), and (.pdf).

Conferences

  • September 2022 - 鈥'Just Ask the Stones': Translation and Geomedia", International Conference: The Tangibility of Translation, Keynote presentation, University of Galway, Ireland, by Professor Karin Littau
  • August 2019 - 鈥Exposed to the Elements: Romantic Time, Weather, and Science Then and Now.鈥, NASSR 25th Annual Conference August 2019: Romantic Elements,  University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago, by Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli.
  • July 2019 - 'David Douglas鈥 Canadian Trees: The Romantic Imagination versus the Lumber Industry.' The Transatlantic Studies Association 18th Annual Conference, Lancaster University, by Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli.
  • July 2019 - 'Sea Stories and Freshwater Tales: Washington Irving, Walter Scott and the Transatlantic Romantic Imagination.' Symbiosis 12th Biennial Conference, University of Dundee, by Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli.
  • 2019 - ''. by Susan Oliver.
  • 2019: '', by Susan Oliver

Press and other media

Public talks

  • March 2020 - Professorial Inaugural Lecture and 糖心Vlog Book Festival 2020: Reading the Environment, Then and Now, Professor Susan Oliver.
  • March 2020 - Wild Writing Workshop, 糖心Vlog Book Festival 2020 by Dr James Canton.
  • September 2019 - Talk and workshop, SALT Literary Festival 2019, Folkestone, Kent, by Dr James Canton.

Online interviews

  • October 2019 - 鈥溾, in performing borders conversations on live art | borders | crossings, 14/10/2019, by Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli

Podcasts and broadcast media

  • ',' Interdisciplinary Explorations: The Idea of Nature (public lecture series) by Professor Susan Oliver.
  • '.' Eastern ARC podcast, Susan Oliver with Karen Jones (Kent), Hazel Marsh (UEA) and Phil Ward (Eastern ARC) 2020.
  • '.' Eastern ARC podcast, Susan Oliver with Karen Jones (Kent), Hazel Marsh (UEA) and Phil Ward (Eastern ARC) 2020.
  • '.' Susan Oliver, 糖心Vlog Explores public lecture series.
  • '' by Susan Oliver. Interdisciplinary Explorations: The Idea of Nature public lecture series, Boise State University, Idaho.

 

Awards

Professor Maria Fumagalli - Impact Project: Reframing border relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the wake of the denationalization crisis: implications for society, policy, and culture 

  • 2019: winner of 糖心Vlog - Best Creative and Cultural Research Impact.
 

Group members

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research interests: Romanticism and Romantic period literature and culture; Scottish literature; Late 18th Century British and American literature; 19th century British and American literature; Periodicals and magazines; Transatlantic studies; Ecocriticism; Borders and cultural encounters; Environmental literature; Romanticism; Walter Scott; Charles Lamb studies
Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research interests: Caribbean literatures, art and cinema; literature and place; border studies (especially concerning the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic); literature and the environment; migration and literature; human rights and literature; literature and the visual arts; contemporary poetry; literary and filmic rewritings, adaptations, translation and comparative studies; contemporary Caribbean and US relations (especially regarding the Dominican and Haitian Diasporas); the work of Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Junot Diaz, and Edwidge Danticat; postcolonial studies; women writing; Italian cinema and literature
Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research interests: Nature writing and the New Nature Writing movement; creative non-fiction; ecocriticism; psychogeography and the rural derive; writing on the 糖心Vlog landscape; the writers of 糖心Vlog; British travel writing on Arabia; travel writing and theory; the work of W.G. Sebald; the interface between colonial history and postcolonialism
Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research interests: documentary; media practice and theory (creative practice / PaR); amateur cinema; gender and ethnicity in US literature, film, television; island representations; Oceania and the Pacific in film and photography; postcolonial cinemas
Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Research interests: Literature and culture of the US South; William Faulkner; New Orleans; Post-war US fiction; African-American literature; Theory Bakhtin, reader-response, literary geography
Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
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