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Professor Susan Oliver

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Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
Professor Susan Oliver

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Biography

I joined Essex in 2010, serving as Faculty Dean of Research in Arts and Humanities between July 2019 and December 2022. I am currently Deputy Head of Department and Director of Partnerships for Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies. My main interests are late 18th century and Romantic period literature through to the 1860s, transatlantic studies, periodical culture, ecocriticism and environmental writing, and Scottish literature. The visual arts and music also inform my work. My latest monograph is Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation (Cambridge University Press, 2021; paperback and Kindle 2023). The British Academy awarded me the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (2007) for my earlier book, Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter (Palgrave, 2005). I was guest editor of the Yearbook of English Studies 47 (2017) titled "Walter Scott: New Interpretations," which brings together innovative new ways of reading Scott for the 21st Century. Recently, I have published interdisciplinary articles on coastal Romanticisms, authored a book chapter on Scott and the Anthropocene, and another on women Scottish novelists and memoirists Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton and Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus. I am writing a new book about transatlantic periodical culture in the 70 years between the French Revolution and American Civil War, looking at the rise of a principled critical journalism that today is under threat. I regularly speak at conferences around the world and have given many public talks including recently for the National Trust Scotland and, on John Constable, for The National Gallery. I serve on the Editorial Boards of Romanticism on the Net (RoN), The Wordsworth Circle, and the Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, and am an active member of several professional associations in nineteenth-century, transatlantic, and environmental studies. The UKRI appointed me as a panel member of their Interdisciplinary Assessment College (IAC) and I am a member the AHRC Peer Review College. I am a Fellow of the English Association and of the Higher Education Academy and have held research Fellowships at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, The Huntington Library, The American Philosophical Society, the Modern Language Association, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. I am a Senior Member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, an Honorary Fellow in Literary Studies in the Department of English at The University of Wyoming. In 2018 I was awarded Essex's PhD Supervisor of the Year (Humanities). I was honoured with the University Motivational, Inspiring, and Empowering Women award in 2017 and as Research Impact Champion (Humanities) in 2016. Doctoral supervision: I welcome enquiries about supervising PhD research in 18th century literature, Romanticism, Transatlantic studies, ecocriticism, environmental writing and Scottish literature. My current and former PhD students have worked on topics including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins; 19th-century periodicals and education; Women and illustration in transatlantic 19th-century fiction; literary ecologies of the North Sea and its archipelagos,; literary pre-Darwinism; environmentalism in contemporary fiction; and the novels of William Godwin.

Qualifications

  • B.A. (Hons) English and European Literature University of Essex,

  • Ph.D. English University of Cambridge,

Appointments

University of Essex

  • Faculty Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Essex (22/7/2019 - 31/12/2022)

  • Director of Research, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (10/8/2015 - 17/8/2018)

  • Academic Staffing Committee, Literature, Film, and Thatre Studies, University of Essex (1/8/2014 - 31/7/2020)

  • Collaborative Board, Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex (31/1/2016 - present)

  • Athena SWAN Institutional Self Assessment Team, University of Essex (3/12/2013 - present)

  • Deputy Head of the Department, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (1/1/2024 - present)

  • Director of Partnerships, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (1/1/2024 - present)

Other academic

  • External Examiner, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University (1/9/2018 - 31/8/2022)

  • Honorary Fellow in Literary Studies, English, University of Wyoming (1/1/2013 - present)

  • Advisory Committee, MLA International Bibliography, Modern Language Association (1/7/2015 - 30/6/2018)

  • Senior Bibliographer, MLA International Bibliography, Modern Language Association (1/7/2015 - present)

  • Bibliographer, MLA International Bibliography, Modern Language Association (1/7/2009 - 30/6/2015)

  • Bibliography Fellow, MLA International Bibliography, Modern Language Association (1/7/2005 - 30/6/2009)

Research and professional activities

Research interests

Romanticism and Romantic period literature and culture

Open to supervise

Scottish literature

Open to supervise

Late 18th Century British and American literature

Open to supervise

19th century British and American literature

Open to supervise

Periodicals and magazines

Open to supervise

Transatlantic studies

I am a leading specialist in transatlantic studies, with a focus on the 18th, 19th and 21st centuries. My published work in this field includes many journal articles and book chapters. My current monograph project is on transatlantic periodicals 1790-1860 and the 21st century, looking at how those publications encouraged freedom of thought and created an exchange for knowledge and ideas that changed the world.

Open to supervise

Ecocriticism

Open to supervise

Borders and cultural encounters

Open to supervise

Environmental literature

Key words: Ecology
Open to supervise

Romanticism

Open to supervise

Walter Scott

I am a leading scholar in the study of Walter Scott and his writing. My recent focus has been on his interest in the land and environment. I have authored many publications on Scott, including two monographs, a journal special issue, several journal articles and several book chapters. I have given numerous public and academic talks on Scott and his work.

Open to supervise

Charles Lamb studies

I am a leading scholar in Charles Lamb studies and a Trustee of The Charles Lamb Society. My publications include journal articles and book chapter. Lamb features prominently in a new monograph that I am writing on transatlantic periodical culture. I gave the Charles Lamb Birthday Lecture in 2023.

Open to supervise

Current research

Climate Fiction of the Anthropocene

I am a specialist in environmental literature, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and interdisciplinary environmental studies. I am Guest Co-Editor of, and a contributor to, this special edition of the Australian Journal of Environmental Eduction (Cambridge University Press). The other co-editors are Cassandra Tytler (Edith Cowan University), Joseph Paul Ferguson (Deakin University), and Peta J. White (Deakin University).
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Sounding Scotland's Waters, 1800-1900: History, Literature, Science

I am an invited participant in this interdisciplinary project run by the University of St. Andrews and funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. There will be a series of workshops in Autumn 2024, followed by the publication of a collection of essays in 2025/26. My interdisciplinary contribution is on interrelationships between literature, art, and maritime meteorology in the early 19th Century. The project leader/PI at St Andrews is Dr Katie Garner. CI at St Andrews is Dr Asha Hornsby.
More information about this project

Conferences and presentations

Maritime Weather: Meteorology and the North, from Macpherson and Scott to J.M.W. Turner.

Invited presentation, “Walter Scott, North and South,” The Thirteenth International Walter Scott Conference., University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States, 23/5/2024

“Life Below Ground: James Hutton, Theories of the Earth, and Imagined Animals.”

Invited presentation, Soil-Dirt-Earth: Ecologies Below Ground (1750-1850)., University of Passau, Passau, Germany, 22/6/2023

Romanticism on the Coast, BARS/NASSR Salon

Invited presentation, New Romanticisms, Ormskirk, United Kingdom, 3/8/2022

"Fields of Conflict and Ecologies of War: Walter Scott’s Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk and the Site of Waterloo."

Invited presentation, British Romanticism and Europe, Ascona, Switzerland, 23/6/2022

The Bass Rock: J. M. W. Turner, Ecologies, and Transmutable Forms of an Inshore Island.

Invited presentation, Scotland’s Coastal Romanticisms Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, 5/2/2022

Transformative Geologies: Scott, Byron and the Stones of Italian Romance.

Invited presentation, Eco-Romanticism: Human-Nonhuman Conversations (plenary panel), Parma, Italy, 25/11/2021

Romanticism and Posthumansim - Session presider and co-organiser with Professor Richard Sha (American University, DC)

Invited presentation, Modelr Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, United States, 11/1/2020

"Managed Extinction? The Scottish Clearances as an Anthropocene Event."

Invited presentation, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, United States, 10/1/2020

“Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and Romantic Plant Poetry: Seeking Spirituality in Real-Life Flowers”

Invited presentation, Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies, Waco, United States, 21/9/2019

“Exposed to the Elements: Romantic Time, Weather, and Science Then and Now”

Romantic Elements: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) 27th Annual Conference, Chicago, United States, 11/8/2019

"Sea Stories and Freshwater Tales: Washington Irving, Walter Scott and the Transatlantic Romantic Imagination."

Invited presentation, Symbiosis 12th Biennial Conference., Dundee, United Kingdom, 13/7/2019

"David Douglas’ Canadian Trees: The Romantic Imagination versus the Lumber Industry."

The Transatlantic Studies Association 18th Annual Conference., Lancaster, United Kingdom, 10/7/2019

Transatlantic Romanticisms Reviewed

Invited presentation, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, United States, 3/1/2019

“Towards an Aesthetics of the Unseen: or, Romanticism Below and Beyond the Horizon."

Open: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) 26th Annual Conference, Providence, United States, 23/6/2018

"The MLA International Bibliography as an Active Archive: Knowledge Creation for the Twenty-First Century."

Invited presentation, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, United States, 5/1/2018

"Rocks and Hard Places: Romanticism and the Agency of Stone."

Invited presentation, Romantic Improvement: British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) 15th International Conference, York, United Kingdom, 28/7/2017

“Ecologies of Destruction: The Politics and Poetics of the Planetary: Oil, Coal and Air in 1820s Scotland.”

Invited presentation, Dialogues and Diasporas: 2nd World Congress of Scottish Literatures., Vancouver, Canada, 22/6/2017

“The Road to Publication Begins with Research.”

Invited presentation, Modern Language Association Annual Convention., Philadephia, United States, 6/1/2017

“Transatlantic Discontent: Homecoming from the American Tropics in Walter Scott’s Rokeby.”

Romanticism and Its Discontents: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism 24th Annual Conference., Berkeley, United States, 13/8/2016

“Reading the Land: Interpreting Forms of Violence.”

Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Environments: British Comparative Literature Association PG Conference, Colchester, United Kingdom, 8/6/2016

“Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing Up in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae.”

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Austin, United States, 9/1/2016

“Romantic Ecocriticism: Thinking Forward.”

Invited presentation, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Austin, United States, 8/1/2016

Conference co-organiser

Invited presentation, Trauma, Conflict, and Reconciliation: 10th Symbiosis Transatlantic Studies Biennial International Conference., Colchester, United Kingdom, 9/9/2015

“Environmental Justice and the Romantic Ballad: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border versus Lyrical Ballads.”

Romanticism and Rights: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) 23rd Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Canada, 15/8/2015

"Teaching Transatlantic Romanticisms."

Romantic Imprints: British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) 14th International Conference., Cardiff, United Kingdom, 18/7/2015

“Publishing in Academic Journals and Edited Essay Collections.”

Romantic Imprints: 14th British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) International Conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 18/7/2015

"The Land Writes Back: Walter Scott, Ballads and Grounding the Imagination."

Invited presentation, Notes from Underground: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) 11th Biennial Conference., Moscow, United States, 27/6/2015

“Scottish Literature: Into the Great Unknowns.”

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Vancouver, Canada, 9/1/2015

“Woodland as Cultural Archive in The Lay of the Last Minstrel.”

Invited presentation, Activating the Archive: 10th International Walter Scott Conference., Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 12/7/2014

"“Walter Scott and the Presence of Place: An Ecocritical Phenomenology for the Twenty-First Century.”"

World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3/7/2014

“Green Scotland: Seeds of Independence.”

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, United States, 11/1/2014

“Narratives of western travel in the Edinburgh Review 1802-1815.”

Invited presentation, The Journey and Its Portrayals: Explorers, Sailors, (Im)migrants.", Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Province of China, 25/11/2012

“The Slipperiness of Genre: Thomas De Quincey’s 'On Murder' Essays and Catastrophic Spaces in the Romantic Press.”

Romantic Catastrophes: International Conference on Romanticism (ICR) Annual Conference, Tempe, United States, 9/11/2012

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Origins and Transformations in Literature and Drama (LT111)

  • Text Up Close: Reading for Criticism (LT182)

  • Criticism: Practice and Theory (LT204)

  • The Romantics: Poetry, Prose, Imagination (LT215)

  • Transatlantic Romanticisms (LT378)

  • Climate Fiction (LT899)

  • Literature and the Environmental Imagination: 19th to 21st Century Poetry and Prose (LT978)

Previous supervision

Jordan Jacob Welsh
Jordan Jacob Welsh
Thesis title: “Tread Softly! All the Earth Is Holy Ground”: An Environmental and Materialist Interpretation of Selected Works By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/8/2024
Adam Barton Neikirk
Adam Barton Neikirk
Thesis title: Your Very Own Ecstasy: A Life in Verse of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Degree subject: Creative Writing
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 17/1/2023
Edwin Powell
Edwin Powell
Thesis title: Complex Twists of Becoming: Debates About Elementary Education in English Periodicals, 1833-1880.
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 2/3/2020
Elaine Margaret Ewart
Elaine Margaret Ewart
Thesis title: Archipelago: A Literary Ecology of Heligoland and the Frisian Coast
Degree subject: Creative Writing
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 17/9/2019
Hsiao-Hsien Hsu
Hsiao-Hsien Hsu
Thesis title: In Between Materiality and Meaning: World, Dust and Daemon in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 22/5/2017
Tabitha Grace Kan
Tabitha Grace Kan
Thesis title: Renderings of the Abyss: Some Changing Nineteenth-Century Literary Perceptions of the Animal / Human Divide
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/4/2017
Wafaa Alfares
Wafaa Alfares
Thesis title: Serialisation, Settings, Characters: A Comparative Case Study of Gender Roles in Society, as Addressed in Selected Novels By Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Edith Wharton
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 11/11/2016
Sawsan Saber D Qashgari
Sawsan Saber D Qashgari
Thesis title: The Image and Role of Women in Selected Works By William Faulkner
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 30/6/2015

Publications

Oliver, S., (2017). "Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land". Yearbook of English Studies. 47, 279-299

Oliver, S., (2017). "Introduction to 'Walter Scott: New Interpretations'". Yearbook of English Studies. 47, 1-15

Oliver, S., (2016). "Cloaking and Hiding: Dressing up in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae.". The Bottle Imp. [Supplement 3] (Supplement Issue 3), [no-pagination]

Oliver, S., (2016). Byron and the Discourses of History. EUROPEAN ROMANTIC REVIEW. 27 (1), 96-101

Oliver, S., (2015). "Introduction: Scottish Literature at the MLA 2015". The Bottle Imp. 2 (Supp)

Oliver, S., (2014). "Green Scotland: Literature and the Seeds of Independence". The Bottle Imp. [Supplement 1] (Supp 1), [no-pagination]

Oliver, S., (2014). Walter Scott and the Matter of Landscape: Ecologies of Violence for our Time.. The Bottle Imp. 16 (16), 1-5

Oliver, S., (2013). Sir Walter Scott's Transatlantic Ecology. The Wordsworth Circle. 44 (2-3), 115-120

Oliver, S., (2013). DeQuincey's “On Murder“: The Generic Conflict. The Wordsworth Circle. 44 (1), 44-51

Oliver, S., (2012). Review Essay: Robert Burns in Global Culture (Bucknell UP, 2011) ed. Murray Pittock; James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace (Ashgate, 2009) ed. Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson.. The Wordsworth Circle. 43 (4), 209-212

Oliver, S., (2011). Walking and Imagining the City: The Transatlanticity of Charles Lamb's Essays for the London Magazine. Charles Lamb Bulletin. 154, 115-130

Oliver, S., (2009). Planting the Nation's ‘Waste Lands’: Walter Scott, Forestry and the Cultivation of Scotland's Wilderness. Literature Compass. 6 (3), 585-598

Oliver, S., (2009). Silencing Joseph Johnson and the "Analytical Review". The Wordsworth Circle. 40 (2-3), 96-102

Oliver, S., (2009). Romantic 'Dantism,' Travel, Visions and Exile: Byron, Ugo Foscolo and Henry Francis Cary. Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies. 10, 1-16

Oliver, S., (2008). Crossing "Dark Barriers": Intertextuality and dialogue between Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott. Studies in Romanticism. 47 (1), 15-34

Oliver, S., (2005). Transatlantic Influences in Periodical Editing: From Francis Jeffrey's Edinburgh Review to Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune. Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. 9 (1), 45-62

Oliver, S., (2002). Resisting Radical Energies: Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and the Re-Fashioning of the Border Ballads. Cycnos. 19 (1), 49-63

Books (3)

Oliver, S., (2021). Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation. Cambridge University Press. 978-1108831574

Oliver, S., (2017). Walter Scott: New Interpretations. Modern Humanities Research Association. 9781781882931

Oliver, S., (2005). Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter. Palgrave Macmillan. 9780230555006

Book chapters (13)

Oliver, S., (2022). "Private Thoughts and Public Display: Gender, Genre and Lives.". In: The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature. Editors: Kidd, S., McNeil, K. and McCracken-Flesher, C., . Scottish Literature International, Association for Scottish Literature. 42- 49. 978-1-908980-35-9

Oliver, S., (2021). "Reading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene". In: Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward.. Editors: McCracken-Flesher, C. and Wickman, M., . Edinburgh University Press. 161- 180. 9781474429863

Oliver, S., (2021). 9 Reading Walter Scott in the Anthropocene. In: Walter Scott at 250. Edinburgh University Press. 161- 180

Oliver, S., (2019). Walter Scott and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.. In: Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture.. Editors: Everson, JE., Hiscock, A. and Jossa, S., . Oxford University Press. 186- 209. 9780197266502

Oliver, S., (2016). "Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism". In: The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies. Editors: Eckel, L. and Elliott, C., . Edinburgh Companions to Literature. 340- 353. 1474402941. 9781474402941

Oliver, S., (2016). 23. Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism. In: The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies. Edinburgh University Press. 340- 354

Oliver, S., (2013). Stevenson as Transatlantic Romanticism. In: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Modern Language Association of America. 130- 134. 9781603291217

Oliver, S., (2013). Horror and Melancholia in Romantic Greece: British Reviews of John Keats’s Lamia and John Polidori’s The Vampyre.. In: Southern Horrors: Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World. Editors: Bonifas, G. and Monacelli, M., . Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 201- 211. 1443850306. 9781443850308

Oliver, S., (2013). Reading Morocco in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press before National Geographic.. In: Beyond Colonial/postcolonial Interventions Revisiting the Debate of Morocco in English Writings and Moroccan Writings in English.. Editors: Essrhir, A., Amine, K., Ennassiri, MK., El Assad, YR., Younes, R., Mars, A. and El Ayadi, R., . Abdelmalek Assadi University Press and The British Council. 191- 212. 9981610542. 9789981610545

Oliver, S., (2013). A Royal and Romantic Nation. In: La Donna del Lago. Royal Opera. 31- 37

Oliver, S., (2012). "Contagion and the City: Writing Boston as a Transatlantic City in the Early Nineteenth Century.". In: The City and the Ocean: Journeys, Memory, Imagination. Editors: White, JC. and Wang, I., . Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 60- 74. 9781443837194

Oliver, S., (2010). Ecologies of Disaffection: Interpreting Wastelands in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly and Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor. In: An Interpretive Turn: Essays on Cultural Expressions of Art and Literature. Bookman Books, Ltd.. 23- 40. 9789574453429

(2007). Romanticism's Debatable Lands. In: Romanticism's Debatable Lands. Editors: Lamont, C. and Rossington, M., . Palgrave Macmillan UK. 39- 51. 9781349353743

Conferences (11)

Oliver, S., Impact Metrics in the Humanities: Administrative Perspective of Impact Metrics:

Oliver, S., 12th International Walter Scott Conference, University of Edinburgh. Paper titled 'Inshore Fishing in Scotland in the 21st Century: the Romance and Realism of Scott’s Legacy.'

Oliver, S., (2019). The Transatlantic Studies Association 18th Annual Conference. Paper 'David Douglas’ Canadian Trees: The Romantic Imagination versus the Lumber Industry.'

Oliver, S., (2019). Symbiosis 2019, University of Dundee. Paper titled 'Sea Stories and Freshwater Tales: Washington Irving, Walter Scott and the Transatlantic Romantic Imagination.'

Oliver, S., (2019). Exposed to the Elements: Romantic Time, Weather, and Science Then and Now

Oliver, S., (2018). Towards an Aesthetics of the Unseen: or, Romanticism Below and Beyond the Horizon

Oliver, S., (2016). Walter Scott and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.

Oliver, S., (2015). Environmental Justice and the Romantic ballad: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border versus Lyrical Ballads

Oliver, S., (2014). Getting to the Roots of the Matter: Trees and the Environmental Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Oliver, S., (2013). “Melancholia and horror in Romantic Greece: British reviews of John Keats’s Lamia and John Polidori’s The Vampyre.”

Oliver, S., (2013). “Reading Morocco in the nineteenth-century periodical press before National Geographic.”

Media (7)

Oliver, S., Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland.. Video

Oliver, S., Riding, C., Hopper, J. and Greenberg, R., Life Inside The Hay Wain: Constable's Landscapes 200 years on. The National Gallery, panel and webinar.. Video

Pretty, J., Dixon, M., Tearne, R., Oliver, S., Shaheed, A. and Lichtenstein, J., Louder than Words Podcast: Migration. Audio

Jones, K., Marsh, H., Ward, P. and Oliver, S., ‘The myth of hyperabundance’: the environmental history of the Americas.' Available online: https://easternarc.ac.uk/podcasts/episode-6-the-myth-of-hyperabundance-the-environmental-history-of-the-americas/. Audio

Oliver, S., Jones, K., Marsh, H. and Ward, P., ‘There is no revolution without songs’: environment & art in the Americas.. Audio

Oliver, S., 'Endemic, Epidemic, Pandemic! Contagion, the Doctors, and the Press in Early-19th-Century Boston.' Essex Explores (public lecture series). Available online https://lnkd.in/dVWc3M7. Video

Oliver, S., 'Getting to the Roots of the Matter: Trees in 19th Century Literature,' Interdisciplinary Explorations: The Idea of Nature (public lecture series). Available online: https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/ideaofnature/18/. Video

Oliver, S., (2016).Ice thoughts.,blogpost. susanoliverweb.com

Oliver, S., (2015).Wildflower thoughts . . .,susanoliverweb.com

Oliver, S., (2015).Sculptured Coast.,blogpost. susanoliverweb.com

Oliver, S., (2014).City of Trees: Boise, Idaho and an Urban Natural Experience.,Blogpost. susanoliverweb.com

Oliver, S., (2014).Hot Springs, Atomic Cities, and Craters of the Moon . . . on the Road in Idaho.,Blogpost. susanoliverweb.com

Oliver, S., (2014).Sage Grouse Lekking and Canyon Fiction.,Blogpost. susanoliverweb.com

Oliver, S., (2014).Of Rocks and Hard Places . . .,Blogpost - https://susanoliverweb.com

Grants and funding

2022

Coastal Scotland: The Bass Rock, J. M. W. Turner, and the ecologies of an inshore island

Natural Environment Research Council

2015

Green Scott: Walter Scott's Environmentalism and Writing the Ecologies of a Nation

The British Academy

Contact

soliver@essex.ac.uk

Location:

5NW.4.3, Colchester Campus