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TitleFirst NameLast NameDeptHEISummary of Research InterestsWebpageEmail
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ClaudiaAlsdorfDepartment of Language and LinguisticsEssexWork includes literary translation focusing on humour, cultural transfer, dialect and slang, nature descriptions, psychogeography, emotions in bereavement and relationshipshttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/nehmz96700/claudia-alsdorfc.alsdorf@essex.ac.uk
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ChloeAnthonyLawSussexbiodiversity law; nature restoration law; environmental governance.https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p17801-chloe-anthonyC.Anthony@sussex.ac.uk
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DrNathanAshmanSchool of Literature, Drama and Creative WritingUEAResearch spans the fields of crime fiction, contemporary American fiction and ecocriticism, with a particular specialism in the works of James Ellroy. https://people.uea.ac.uk/n_ashmann.ashman@uea.ac.uk
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DrElizabethBennettDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)EssexContemporary performance in relation to space, place, and landscape, participatory performance practices, community arts, performative writing and voice. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/benne96816/elizabeth-bennettelizabeth.bennett@essex.ac.uk
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DrLisaBlackmoreSchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexModernity in Latin America; Visual culture; Space and politics; Memory politics; Human-nature relations; Water, hydraulics, liquid ecologies in the arts; Environmental aesthetics; Photography; Digital culture; Contemporary visual production in Latin Americahttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/black41103/lisa-blackmorelisa.blackmore@essex.ac.uk
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DrRowenaBurgessSchool of HistoryUEAthe intersection between landscape, people and society, both in current portrayal and through heritage and the media, through lived experience and the historical record.https://people.uea.ac.uk/rowena_burgessrowena.burgess@uea.ac.uk
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DrJamesCantonDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)EssexNature writing and the New Nature Writing movement; creative non-fiction; ecocriticism; psychogeography and the rural derive; writing on the Essex landscape; the writers of Essex; travel writing and theory; the work of W.G. Sebald; the interface between colonial history and postcolonialismhttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/canto99609/james-cantonjcanto@essex.ac.uk
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DrJoanneClarkeSchool of Art, Media and American StudiesUEAresearch interests include societal responses to climatic changes during the early and mid-Holocene in the Near East and North Africa and the impacts of future climate change on heritage in Africa.https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/joanne-clarkeJoanne.Clarke@uea.ac.uk
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ProfKatharineCockinDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)EssexPrimarily the lives and work of Ellen Terry and Edith Craig, but also literarture and place (particularly the North) and animal studies.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/cocki28306/katharine-cockink.m.cockin@essex.ac.uk
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ProfVybarrCregan-ReidSchool of EnglishKentLiterature, the environment, evolution, the Victorians (esp. Hardy & Dickens), biomechanics, sports science, bodies, Babylonian literature.https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/83/cregan-reid-vybarrv.cregan-reid@kent.ac.uk
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DrElianaCusatoSchool of LawEssexThe link between nature and violent conflict in the theory and practice of international law. She is also interested in legal questions raised by unequal distribution of natural resources, environmental justice, human rights and global political economy, and the relationship between Global North and South. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/cusat21403/eliana-cusatoe.cusato@essex.ac.uk
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DrHelenDancerLawSussexHuman-earth relations through law, music and language, Earth law, ecomusicology, protection of forests, women’s and Indigenous Peoples’ land rights, interculturality, living heritage, legal pluralism, curationhttps://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p211401-helen-dancerH.E.Dancer@sussex.ac.uk
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DrRob FishSchool of Anthropology and ConservationKentHow people imagine, value and manage the natural world in the context of a range of salient rural environmental agendas. https://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology-conservation/people/479/fish-robertr.fish@kent.ac.uk
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ProfMaria CristinaFumagalliDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)EssexCaribbean 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 Caribbean and US relations (especially regarding the Dominican and Haitian Diasporas); Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Junot Diaz, and Edwidge Danticat; postcolonial studieshttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/fumag44408/maria-cristina-fumagallimcfuma@essex.ac.uk
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ProfJefferyGeigerDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)EssexSynergies between practice, criticism, and theory, with particular interests in documentary, postcolonial approaches to global cinemas, gender and ethnicity in US film, comparative media, film and human geography, island studies, and Oceania and the Pacific.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/geige75304/jeffrey-geigerj.geiger@essex.ac.uk
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DrPaulGilbertInternational DevelopmentSussexColonial Global Economy; Third World Approaches to International Law; New International Economic Order; Development Finance; Climate Finance; Climate Justice; Geographies of Public Finance; Extractive Industries; Environmental Defenders; Violent Political Ecologieshttps://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p275733-paul-gilbertP.Gilbert@sussex.ac.uk
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DrJonGregorySchool of HIstoryUEAthe long term development of marginal landscapes, landscape and the idea of improvement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the use of digital mapping techniques in landscape history.https://people.uea.ac.uk/j_gregoryj.gregory@uea.ac.uk
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DrJaneHindleySchool of Philosophy and Art HistoryEssexSocial movements, sustainability and climate change, with an interest in radical pedagogies and the history of radical thought.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/hindl99308/jane-hindleyjaneh@essex.ac.uk
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ProfKaren HulmeSchool of LawEssexThe extractives industry, including legislation amendments and human rights impact monitoring, and, in particular, on issues of environmental law and environmental human rights.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/hulme49303/karen-hulmeklhulm@essex.ac.uk
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DrEmilyJonesSchool of LawEssexGender and international law; international environmental law; the law of the sea; science, technology and international law; posthuman legal theory; gender and conflict; and political economy, imperialism and international law. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/jones48003/emily-jonese.jones@essex.ac.uk
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ProfKarenJonesSchool of HistoryKentenvironmental history, landscape history and animal studies, Karen’s books include Wolf Mountains: The History of Wolves Along the Great Divide (2002), The Invention of the Park (2005), and she was co-author of a post-revisionist monograph on the American West (The American West: Competing Visions, 2009). Also EARC Champion for Sustainability, Human Resources and Food. https://www.kent.ac.uk/history/people/400/jones-karenk.r.jones@kent.ac.uk
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DrBirgulKutanEducationSussexepistemic injustices/discriminations through and in education, theory and practice of social change especially how historically marginalised section of society engage in this process with what strategies, intercultural dialog and solidarity, alternative knowledge productions by minoritised people, human rights/democracy struggle, Identity and belonging in violence context and authoritarianism, feminist futures and social movement, Turkey, Middle Easthttps://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p141870-birgul-kutanB.Kutan@sussex.ac.uk
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ProfElizabethKutiDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)EssexPlaywriting; contemporary drama; tragedy; gender and literature; folklore and place in drama; theatre in museums and heritage sites; theatre history and literature of the long eighteenth century.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/kutie15905/elizabeth-kutiejkuti@essex.ac.uk
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ProfRobertLiddiardSchool of HistoryUEAMedieval and landscape history, particularly the history and archaeology of high status landscapes (secular and ecclesiastical), the vernacular landscape, parks and hunting as well as aspects of tenurial geography.https://people.uea.ac.uk/rob_liddiardrob.liddiard@uea.ac.uk
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ProfMagnusMarsdenAnthropologySussexAfghanistan; Central Asia; Islam; urban heritage; intangible heritage minorites; networks; diplomacy; trade and commerce; Sikhism; Jewish life https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p187719-magnus-marsdenM.Marsden@sussex.ac.uk
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DrHazelMarshSchool of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication StudiesUEAHazel teaches in the areas of Latin American popular culture, film and media, history and cultural politics. She has links with several organisations which aim to disseminate information about social justice, human rights and environmental issues in Latin America.https://people.uea.ac.uk/hazel_marshhazel.marsh@uea.ac.uk
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DrWendyMcMahonSchool of Art, Media and American StudiesUEACuban literature; Latin American literatures; Caribbean literatures; Contemporary American Literature; 'World' literatures; Literature of exile; Diasporic literatures; postcolonial literatures, cultures, and theories; Literary and critical theory; ecocriticism; literature and law, literature and human rights, literature and politics, literature and ethics, literature and philosophy, literature and science. Also EARC Champion for Human Rights, Equality and Conflict.https://people.uea.ac.uk/w_mcmahonw.mcmahon@uea.ac.uk
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ProfJeanMcNeilSchool of Literature, Drama and Creative WritingUEACreative writing: Most recently she was the winner of the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival's Grand Prize for her memoir Ice Diaries, based on the year she spent as writer in residence in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey. She has undertaken official scientific and environmental writing residencies in the Falkland Islands, in Svalbard, and aboard ship-based expeditions to Greenland and across the Atlantic ocean.https://people.uea.ac.uk/j_mcneil?_ga=2.33332220.395125379.1611135337-422142803.1604490904j.mcneil@uea.ac.uk
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DrPatriciaNovillo-CorvalánSchool of European Culture and LanguagesKentComparative and World literature, Medical Humanities, Translation Studies, Modernism, and Latin American Studies. I am interested in how literary artefacts travel across temporal, geographical, and cultural frontiers, particularly in the wake of Walter Benjamin’s notion of the ‘afterlife’ of a text, which may be read as a larger metaphor for the circulation, survival, and resurrection of texts through the centuries.https://research.kent.ac.uk/medicalhumanities/person/dr-patricia-novillo-corvalan/P.Novillo-Corvalan@kent.ac.uk
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ProfSusanOliverDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)Essexliterature of the late 18th century and Romantic period, transatlantic studies, Scottish literature, ecocriticism and environmental writing, and periodical culture. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/olive79506/susan-oliversoliver@essex.ac.uk
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DrJakPeakeDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)EssexAmerican literature in the continental sense, including United States and Caribbean literature in particular, from around the nineteenth century to the twenty first century. His research interests also include the ‘New Negro’, the Black or Harlem Renaissance, postcolonialism, colonialism, black diaspora and black British writing, travel writing and ecocriticism. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/peake33002/jak-peakejrpeak@essex.ac.uk
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DrRebeccaPrenticeAnthropology and International DevelopmentSussexMigrant labour, health and safety, and global garment production. Relationship between labour, sustainability, and the environment. Ethnographic and embodied approaches to just transition.https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p98251-rebecca-prenticer.j.prentice@sussex.ac.uk
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DrEirini SaratsiSchool of Anthropology and ConservationKentCultural landscapes, the socially defined spaces upon which humans develop their livelihoods and base their wellbeing. These interests built the rationale for her doctoral thesis, which investigated long-term processes of landscape character change on the Greek mountains in the context of shifting societal realities and cultural constructions of nature. https://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology-conservation/people/1050/saratsi-eirinie.saratsi@kent.ac.uk
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DrJordanSavageDepartment of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)EssexAvant-garde U.S. poetry; literatures of the American South-West; alternative knowledges; feminist reading and writing practices; environmental criticismhttps://www.essex.ac.uk/people/savag63706/jordan-savagejksava@essex.ac.uk
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ProfNickSelbySchool of Arts, Media and American StudiesUEAAmerican experimental poetry, avant-gardism and the issue of what constitutes an American poetics, his current interests also include transatlantic connections in British experimental poetry, ecocriticism, and theories of the ethics and politics of close-reading.https://people.uea.ac.uk/n_selbyn.selby@uea.ac.uk
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DrJoannaSmallwoodLawSussexthe agreement to and implementation of international biodiversity and environmental law, including global regulation of sustainable food production and consumption, the role of natural capital accounting for biodiversity, growing global movement of the rights of nature and human rights approaches to further biodiversity conservation.https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p341682-joanna-smallwoodJ.Smallwood@sussex.ac.uk
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DrJosSmithSchool of Literature, Drama and Creative WritingUEAthe intersection of literary studies, cultural geography and environmental criticism but they also now take in contemporary literature, post-war British and Irish poetry, critical heritage studies, land art, the Anthropocene, literary geographies and archipelagic criticism. https://people.uea.ac.uk/jos_smithjos.smith@uea.ac.uk
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DrSarahSpoonerSchool of HistoryUEAThe rural landscape in the eighteenth century, including the architecture and landscape of the English country house and the landed estate. Particular interests in the long-term history of suburban development in the post-medieval and modern period. https://people.uea.ac.uk/s_spooners.spooner@uea.ac.uk
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ProfDavidStirrupSchool of EnglishKentIndigenous Studies; Native North American literature and visual arts; Indigenous mobilities; Cultural Rhetorics; Alternative Literacies; Border Studies; Settler Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; The Canada-US Border
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DrRebeccaTillettSchool of Art, Media and American StudiesUEAMy research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Indigenous American literature and film, with wider interest in multi-ethnic American writers and film makers, and contemporary climate crisis fiction. My key areas of interest are Settler Colonial Studies and Indigenous Studies, and how pressing contemporary tribal socio-political and economic realities are expressed in literature and film.https://people.uea.ac.uk/r_tillettr.tillett@uea.ac.uk
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DrStephenTurnerSchool of LawEssexInternational environmental law, climate change, global environmental governance and corporate responsibility. In particular he has written extensively on the subject of human rights and the environment.https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/turne99402/stephen-turners.j.turner@essex.ac.uk
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DrSarahWadeSchool of Art, Media and American StudiesUEAHuman-animal relations and representations of wildlife in contemporary art, exhibitions and museum display, particularly with regards to ecological concerns.https://people.uea.ac.uk/sarah_wadesarah.wade@uea.ac.uk
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ProfSteveWatersSchool of Literature, Drama and Creative WritingUEAHaving written The Contingency Plan, a diptych of plays in 2009 about climate change I have been at the forefront of artistic practice and reflection on climate change and was a co-convenor of the Writing and Science Project at UEA. I returned to climate change with my solo show 'In a vulnerable place' performed in 2014-2015. I am currently embarked on an AHRC Leadership Fellowship funded leave called 'The Song of the Reeds: Dramatising Conservation' which is an 18 month long collaboration with Wicken Fen and Strumpshaw Fen nature reserveshttps://people.uea.ac.uk/steven_waterssteven.waters@uea.ac.uk
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DrRebeccaWebbEducationSussexChildren and young people’s voice, Uncertainty, Not knowing, Deliberation, Democratic schooling, Hope, Resilience, Transformation, Subjectification, More-than-human, Post human, Materiality, Post qualitative, Post critical, Ethical, Relationalhttps://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p74949-rebecca-webbR.C.Webb@sussex.ac.uk
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ProfJoWestbrookSussexHer research interests focus on critical and inclusive curricula and pedagogies in a range of contexts including post-conflict contexts in the Global South, with a particular expertise in the teaching of reading and comprehension in multilingual classrooms.https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p30837-jo-westbrookJo.Westbrook@sussex.ac.uk
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DrMatthewWhittleSchool of EnglishKentPostcolonial and global literatures, with special emphasis on the climate emergency, extinction, decolonisation and migration.https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/120/www.kent.ac.uk/english/people/120/whittle-matthewm.whittle@kent.ac.uk
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ProfTomWilliamsonSchool of HistoryUEALandscape historian and landscape archaeologist with wide-ranging interests incl:Agriculture and the Landscape in Midland England, tree populations and tree disease in England since 1600, the history and ecology of orchards in eastern England. He also researches designed landscapes, especially parks and gardens of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.https://people.uea.ac.uk/t_williamsont.williamson@uea.ac.uk
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DrJohnWillsSchool of HistoryKentenvironmental, cultural and digital topics, including 1950's American society, nuclear landscapes, amusements and theme parks, environmental protest, video games, California and Hollywood.https://www.kent.ac.uk/history/people/1478/wills-johnj.wills@kent.ac.uk
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DrXunZhouDepartment of HistoryEssexFood and foodways, history of disease and environmental history, https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/zhoux11804/xun-zhouxzhoug@essex.ac.uk
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