About

I explore modes of everyday experience through phenomenology and philosophical post-humanism to ask how a poetics of space and place or the ‘lived environment’ might resonate with climate change and futurity. My writing and pedagogy have been grounded by the spatial theme of dwelling or ‘inhabitation’ and new concepts of political ecology or ‘cohabitations’ following twentieth- and twenty-first century eco-criticism. I am particularly interested in questions concerning cultural production and reception in times of climate crisis and activism that explore a poetics of encounter, observation, and participation (an ‘eco-poetics’).

My research within Visual Cultures and Contemporary Art Theory turns to environmental studies, everyday aesthetics, eco-feminism, eco-phenomenology, and emerging discourses within the fields of New Materialism and Speculative Realism. I have published widely and internationally on culinary materialism and the alimentary, visual practices, ‘vital materialism’, and the rural vs. the urban as a complex spatial paradigm for eco-critical thinking. I am a member of the Centre for Art and Ecology, the chair of the Critical Ecologies Research Stream, and served as the SENSS Pathway Lead for Sustainability + Climate Emergency from 2023-25.