Ecocriticism, Green Writing, and Literary Geographies

University of Essex/ESRC (2016-2018)

• ESRC/UoE Impact Acceleration Account-Impact Fund (£5578).
• ESRC/UoE Impact Acceleration Account-Impact Fund (£9424).
• ESRC/UoE Impact Acceleration Account-Impact Fund (£9833).
• ESRC/UoE Impact Acceleration Account-Active Engagement Fund (£2000).

Professor Maria Fumagalli

• Maria has completed her fourth monograph provisionally entitled Derek Walcott's Painters for which she was awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust (2016-2019). Read Maria's blog post on Derek Walcott and Peter Doig, Paramin, Morning for Wasafiri.
• 2016-2018 - Reconceptualizing troubled border relations: promoting cross-border collaboration, cooperation and solidarity between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the wake of the denationalization crisis in Hispaniola.

Dr Chris Bundock

• Chris is currently working on a book project: Living From: The Gothic and Vitality.

Below are various publications from our members. To explore our member’s other publications, please visit their staff profiles.

Books

Dr James Canton

• The Oak Papers
• Ancient Wonderings

Professor Susan Oliver:

• Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation, (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming July 2021)

Professor Maria Christina Fumagalli:

• On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Dr Chris Bundock:

• “When falsehood can look so like the truth.” British Association of Romantic Studies (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK) 25-28 July 2019.
• “Passionate Science in Keats’s ‘Lamia’ and Marsh’s The Beetle.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois) 8-11 August 2019. 
  

Papers

• A collaboration between Professor Maria Christina Fumagalli and Bridget Wooding (OBMICA) in Santo Domingo is ongoing. A joint paper has been submitted for 'The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic' edited by Edward Paulino and Megan Myers under advance contract with Amherst College Press (a peer-reviewed, open-access publisher).
• Professor Susan Oliver: "Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land", Yearbook of English Studies. 47 (2017), pp. 279-299

Book Chapters

• Professor Susan Oliver: “Reading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene”, in Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward, ed. C. McCracken-Flesher and M. Wickman, (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
• Professor Susan Oliver: "Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism", in The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, ed. L. Eckel and C. Elliott (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 340- 353
• Professor Maria Fumagalli: Ways of Seeing: Derek Walcott and the Visual Arts. In: Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017: In Various Light,. Editors: Doumerc, E. and Goethals, H., . (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), 1-5275-8401-1
• Professor Karin Littau: “Just Ask the Stones”: Eco-Translation, Natural History, and Geomedia. In: History as a Translation of the Past: Case Studies from the West. Editors: Alonzi, L., (Bloomsbury. 2023), pp. 167- 189.

Articles

• Professor Maria Fumagalli: ‘La carne repta entre Dajabón y Juana Méndez’: Manuel Rueda’s ‘geography of living flesh’ and the borderland of Hispaniola’”, Caribbean Quarterly 60.3 (2014), pp.1-18.

Bulletins

• A trilingual (English, French, and Spanish) bulletin devoted to On the Edge by OBMICA summarises the activities in Hispaniola (.pdf), French Antilles (.pdf), and Cuba (.pdf).

• September 2022 - “'Just Ask the Stones': Translation and Geomedia", International Conference: The Tangibility of Translation, Keynote presentation, University of Galway, Ireland, by Professor Karin Littau
• August 2019 - ‘Exposed to the Elements: Romantic Time, Weather, and Science Then and Now.’, NASSR 25th Annual Conference August 2019: Romantic Elements,  University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago, by Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli.
• July 2019 - 'David Douglas’ Canadian Trees: The Romantic Imagination versus the Lumber Industry.' The Transatlantic Studies Association 18th Annual Conference, Lancaster University, by Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli.
• July 2019 - 'Sea Stories and Freshwater Tales: Washington Irving, Walter Scott and the Transatlantic Romantic Imagination.' Symbiosis 12th Biennial Conference, University of Dundee, by Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli.
• 2019 - 'Symbiosis 2019, University of Dundee'. Paper titled 'Sea Stories and Freshwater Tales: Washington Irving, Walter Scott and the Transatlantic Romantic Imagination'. by Susan Oliver.
• 2019: 'Exposed to the Elements: Romantic Time, Weather, and Science Then and Now', by Susan Oliver

Public talks

• March 2020 - Professorial Inaugural Lecture and Essex Book Festival 2020: Reading the Environment, Then and Now, Professor Susan Oliver.
• March 2020 - Wild Writing Workshop, Essex Book Festival 2020 by Dr James Canton.
• September 2019 - Talk and workshop, SALT Literary Festival 2019, Folkestone, Kent, by Dr James Canton.

Online interviews

• October 2019 - “Eagle View / Vista de águila: Karmadavis performing borders”, An interview with Maria Cristina Fumagalli and Bridget Wooding”, in performing borders conversations on live art | borders | crossings, 14/10/2019, by Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli

Podcasts and broadcast media

• 'Getting to the Roots of the Matter: Trees in 19th Century Literature,' Interdisciplinary Explorations: The Idea of Nature (public lecture series) by Professor Susan Oliver.
• 'The myth of hyperabundance: the environmental history of the Americas.' Eastern ARC podcast, Susan Oliver with Karen Jones (Kent), Hazel Marsh (UEA) and Phil Ward (Eastern ARC) 2020.
• 'There is no revolution without songs: environment & art in the Americas.' Eastern ARC podcast, Susan Oliver with Karen Jones (Kent), Hazel Marsh (UEA) and Phil Ward (Eastern ARC) 2020.
• 'Endemic, Epidemic, Pandemic! Contagion, the Doctors, and the Press in Early-19th-Century Boston.' Susan Oliver, Essex Explores public lecture series.
• 'Getting to the Roots of the Matter: Trees in 19th Century Literature,' by Susan Oliver. Interdisciplinary Explorations: The Idea of Nature public lecture series, Boise State University, Idaho.

Professor Maria Fumagalli - Impact Project: Reframing border relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the wake of the denationalization crisis: implications for society, policy, and culture 

• 2019: winner of University of Essex - Best Creative and Cultural Research Impact.