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Adeline Johns-Putra

Professor

adeline.johnsputra@queensu.ca

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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鈥檚 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鈥檚. 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鈥檃n 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鈥檚 writing, The epic

Selected Publications

  • With Xi Liu, Loredana Cesarino, Guohong Mai, and Yue Zhou. 鈥淲hose World? Whose World Literature? Looking for Climate Fiction in China鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Literature and the Work of Universality, edited by Alice Duhan, Stefan Helgesson, Christina Kullburg, and Paul Tenngart, De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 315-32.
  • 鈥淕ender and Agency in a Keralan Foodscape: The Women of Aathi鈥.&苍产蝉辫;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. 鈥淪ystematic Review of Climate Change-Induced Health Impacts Facing Malaysia: Gaps in Research鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Environmental Research: Health, vol. 2, no. 032002, 2024. 
  • With Xianmin Shen. 鈥淐omparative Critical Perspectives on the Anthropocene: An Introduction鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Intertexts, vol. 27, 2023, pp. 1-10. 
  • 鈥淭ranstextual Realism for the Climatological Collective鈥.&苍产蝉辫;The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra and Kelly Sultzbach, Cambridge UP, 2022, pp. 283-95.
  • 鈥溾榃e Have Lost Yardsticks by Which to Measure鈥: Arendtian Ethics and the Narration of Scale in the Anthropocene鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene: Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity, edited by Gabriele D眉rbeck and Philip H眉pkes, Routledge, 2021, pp. 127-42.
  • 鈥淐limate and History in the Anthropocene: Realist Narrative and the Framing of Time鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Climate and Literature, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 246-62.
  • With Axel Goodbody. 鈥淭he Rise of the Climate Change Novel鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Climate and Literature, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra. Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 229-45.
  • 鈥淭he Rest is Silence: Postmodern and Postcolonial Possibilities in Climate Change Fiction鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Studies in the Novel, vol. 50, no.1, 2018, pp. 26-42.
  • 鈥淭he Unsustainable Aesthetics of Sustainability: The Sense of an Ending in Jeanette Winterson鈥檚 The Stone God鈥鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture, edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham, and Louise Squire, Manchester UP, 2017, pp. 177-94.
  • 鈥淏orrowing the World: Climate Change Fiction and the Problem of Posterity鈥, Metaphora, vol. 2, 2017, pp. 1-16.
  • 鈥溾楳y Job is to Take Care of You鈥: Climate Change, Humanity, and Cormac McCarthy鈥檚 The Road鈥.&苍产蝉辫;MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 62, no.3, 2016, pp. 519-540.
  • 鈥淐limate Change in Literature and Literary Studies: From Cli-Fi, Climate Change Theater and Ecopoetry to Ecocriticism and Climate Change Criticism鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 7, 2016, pp. 266-282.
  • 鈥淗istoricizing the Networks of Ecology and Culture: Eleanor Anne Porden and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change鈥.&苍产蝉辫;ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 21, 2015, pp. 27-46. 
  • With Hannes Bergthaller, Rob Emmett, Agnes Kneitz, Susanna Lidstr枚m, Shane McCorristine, Dana Phillips, Isabel P茅rez Ramos, Kate Rigby, and Libby Robin, 鈥淢apping Common Ground: Ecocriticism, Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Environmental Humanities, vol. 5, 2014, pp. 261-276. 
  • 鈥淐are and Gender in a Climate-Changed Future: Maggie Gee鈥檚 The Ice People鈥.&苍产蝉辫;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 鈥 Local Expressions, edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Huei-Chu Chu, and Dana Phillips, Chung-Hsing UP, 2016, pp. 137-54.)
  • 鈥淓nvironmental Care Ethics: Notes toward a New Materialist Critique鈥.&苍产蝉辫;厂测尘辫濒辞办脓, vol. 21, nos.1-2, 2013, pp. 125-135.
  • 鈥淓leanor Anne Porden鈥檚 C艙ur de Lion: History, Epic, and Romance鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Women鈥檚 Writing, vol. 19, no. 3, 2012, pp. 351-71. 
  • 鈥溾楤lending Science with Literature鈥: The Royal Institution, Eleanor Anne Porden, and The Veils鈥. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 33, no.1, 2011, pp. 35-52. 
  • With Adam Trexler. 鈥滳limate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 2, no.2, 2011, pp. 185-200. 
  • 鈥淓cocriticism, Genre, and Climate Change: Reading the Utopian Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson鈥檚 Science in the Capital Trilogy鈥.&苍产蝉辫;English Studies, vol. 91, no.7, 2010, pp.744-760. 
  • With Catherine Brace. 鈥淩ecovering Inspiration in the Spaces of Creative Writing鈥.&苍产蝉辫;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.  
  • 鈥淪atire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women鈥檚 Poetry: Minding the Gap鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 33, no.1, 2010, pp.67-87. 
  • With Catherine Brace. 鈥淭he Importance of Process鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Process: Landscape and Text, edited by CatherineBrace and Adeline Johns-Putra, Rodopi, 2010, pp. 29-44. 
  • 鈥淎nna Seward鈥檚 Translations of Horace: Poetic Dress, Poetic Matter and the Lavish Paraphrase鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Translators, Interpreters, Mediators: Women Writers 1700-1900, edited by Gillian E. Dow, Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 111-28.
  • 鈥淗ome and the Harem: Early Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Representations of Women by Women鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, vol. 2 no.3, 2006. 
  • 鈥淕endering Telemachus: Anna Seward and the Epic Rewriting of F茅nelon鈥檚 罢茅濒茅尘补辩耻别鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982, edited by Bernard Schweizer, Ashgate, 2006, pp. 85-97
  • Heroes and Housewives: Women鈥檚 Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (1770-1835). Peter Lang, 2001.
  • 鈥淪atirising the Courtly Woman and Defending the Domestic Woman: Mock Epics and Women Poets in the Romantic Age鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Romanticism on the Net, vol. 15, 1999. 
  • 鈥淐hrist as Woman鈥檚 Seed: Romantic Women Poets Rewriting the Bible鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, vol.6, 1999, pp. 59-81.