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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’s 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’s. 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’an 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.