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Adeline Johns-Putra

Biography

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.

 

Research Interests

Ecocriticism, Climate fiction, British Romantic women’s writing, The epic

Selected Publications
  • With Xi Liu, Loredana Cesarino, Guohong Mai, and Yue Zhou. “Whose World? Whose World Literature? Looking for Climate Fiction in China”. Literature and the Work of Universality, edited by Alice Duhan, Stefan Helgesson, Christina Kullburg, and Paul Tenngart, De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 315-32.
  • Gender and Agency in a Keralan Foodscape: The Women of Aathi”. Foodscapes of the Anthropocene: Literary Perspectives from Asia, edited by Hannes Bergthaller and You-Ting Chen, Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 21-41.
  • With Raksha Pandya-Wood, Azliyana Azhari, Hamimatunnisa Johar, Nurfashareena Muhamad, and Tin Tin Su. 2024. “Systematic Review of Climate Change-Induced Health Impacts Facing Malaysia: Gaps in Research”. Environmental Research: Health, vol. 2, no. 032002, 2024.
  • With Xianmin Shen. “Comparative Critical Perspectives on the Anthropocene: An Introduction”. Intertexts, vol. 27, 2023, pp. 1-10.
  • Transtextual Realism for the Climatological Collective”. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach, Cambridge UP, 2022, pp. 283-95.
  • “‘We Have Lost Yardsticks by Which to Measure: Arendtian Ethics and the Narration of Scale in the Anthropocene”. Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene: Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity, edited by Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes, Routledge, 2021, pp. 127-42.
  • Climate and History in the Anthropocene: Realist Narrative and the Framing of Time”. Climate and Literature, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 246-62.
  • With Axel Goodbody. “The Rise of the Climate Change Novel”. Climate and Literature, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra. Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 229-45.
  • “The Rest is Silence: Postmodern and Postcolonial Possibilities in Climate Change Fiction”. Studies in the Novel, vol. 50, no.1, 2018, pp. 26-42.
  • The Unsustainable Aesthetics of Sustainability: The Sense of an Ending in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone God”’. Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham, and Louise Squire, Manchester UP, 2017, pp. 177-94.
  • Borrowing the World: Climate Change Fiction and the Problem of Posterity”, Metaphora, vol. 2, 2017, pp. 1-16.
  • “‘My Job is to Take Care of You’: Climate Change, Humanity, and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 62, no.3, 2016, pp. 519-540.
  • Climate Change in Literature and Literary Studies: From Cli-Fi, Climate Change Theater and Ecopoetry to Ecocriticism and Climate Change Criticism”. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 7, 2016, pp. 266-282.
  • Historicizing the Networks of Ecology and Culture: Eleanor Anne Porden and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change”. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 21, 2015, pp. 27-46.
  • With Hannes Bergthaller, Rob Emmett, Agnes Kneitz, Susanna Lidström, Shane McCorristine, Dana Phillips, Isabel Pérez Ramos, Kate Rigby, and Libby Robin, “Mapping Common Ground: Ecocriticism, Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities”. Environmental Humanities, vol. 5, 2014, pp. 261-276.
  • Care and Gender in a Climate-Changed Future: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People”. Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson, Wesleyan UP, 2014, pp. 127-42. (Translated into traditional Chinese in Global Ecological Discourse – Local Expressions, edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Huei-Chu Chu, and Dana Phillips, Chung-Hsing UP, 2016, pp. 137-54.)
  • Environmental Care Ethics: Notes toward a New Materialist Critique”. Symplokē, vol. 21, nos.1-2, 2013, pp. 125-135.
  • Eleanor Anne Porden’s Cœur de Lion: History, Epic, and Romance”. Women’s Writing, vol. 19, no. 3, 2012, pp. 351-71.
  • “‘Blending Science with Literature’: The Royal Institution, Eleanor Anne Porden, and The Veils”. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 33, no.1, 2011, pp. 35-52.
  • With Adam Trexler. ”Climate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism”. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 2, no.2, 2011, pp. 185-200.
  • Ecocriticism, Genre, and Climate Change: Reading the Utopian Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy”. English Studies, vol. 91, no.7, 2010, pp.744-760.
  • With Catherine Brace. “Recovering Inspiration in the Spaces of Creative Writing”. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 35, no.2, 2010, pp. 399-413.
  • Edited with Catherine Brace. Process: Landscape and Text. Rodopi, 2010.  
  • Satire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Minding the Gap”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 33, no.1, 2010, pp.67-87.
  • With Catherine Brace. “The Importance of Process”. Process: Landscape and Text, edited by CatherineBrace and Adeline Johns-Putra, Rodopi, 2010, pp. 29-44.
  • Anna Seward’s Translations of Horace: Poetic Dress, Poetic Matter and the Lavish Paraphrase”. Translators, Interpreters, Mediators: Women Writers 1700-1900, edited by Gillian E. Dow, Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 111-28.
  • Home and the Harem: Early Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Representations of Women by Women”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, vol. 2 no.3, 2006.
  • “Gendering Telemachus: Anna Seward and the Epic Rewriting of Fénelon’s Télémaque”. Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982, edited by Bernard Schweizer, Ashgate, 2006, pp. 85-97
  • Heroes and Housewives: Women’s Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (1770-1835). Peter Lang, 2001.
  • Satirising the Courtly Woman and Defending the Domestic Woman: Mock Epics and Women Poets in the Romantic Age”. Romanticism on the Net, vol. 15, 1999.
  • Christ as Woman’s Seed: Romantic Women Poets Rewriting the Bible”. Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, vol.6, 1999, pp. 59-81.

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