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  • More oil & gender…

    …this time in Würzburg. Looking forward to discussing the topic with the participants and with the fabulous Julia Leyda in the Environmental Humanities workshop series on 19 May.

  • NoRS-EH Doctoral School in Trondheim

    This week I am in Trondheim for a five-day interdisciplinary doctoral school organised by NoRS-EH and hosted by NTNU Trondheim. Brilliant people and some exciting discussions so far, I’m looking forward to my own session on energy tomorrow.

  • EASLCE webinar

    Together with my partner in crime Julia Leyda I will be hosting the 19th EASLCE webinar on 31 March. We will be getting stuck in to Cara Daggett’s concept of petro-masculinity and asking questions about oil and gender in European texts and films/TV. More info here: https://www.easlce.eu/19th-easlce-webinar-easlce-webinar-oil-and-gender-in-european-fiction-and-film/

  • Book review of David Larsson Heidenblad Den gröna vändningen

    I recently had the chance to read this book by David Larsson Heidenblad. You can read my review of it for H-Soz-Kult here.

  • Oil Spaces webinar

    I’m a listed speaker at this event on 13 December 2021.

  • Review of Shifting Sands

    I’m really pleased to see a new review of my book in the journal Literary Geographies – it seems like the natural home for it, and I’m happy to see the book still circulating almost three years after it was published. You can read the review here: https://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/article/view/273

  • New article in Maritime Studies

    “Imagining the Anthropocene with the Wadden Sea,” which I co-authored together with Eveline de Smalen, was published on 17 September 2021 as part of a special issue of Maritime Studies. It is open access and free to download here as part of a special interdisciplinary issue on the Wadden Sea.

  • German ecocriticism podcast

    You can listen to me talking about the Wadden Sea and the Corridor Talk project as part of this podcast about ecocriticism in German studies.

  • Travel in 2021

    Having just got back from the Pyrenees for a workshop with my Corridor Talk colleagues, I’m hoping the travel fortune holds for the next two trips, to the UK and Norway respectively. I am going to be travelling to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Leeds in September and to Trondheim, Oslo, and Stavanger in October to do…