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Matthew Lear is currently a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. His research on ‘Repurposed Poetics,’ which is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, looks at how writing is recycled to think dynamically about environmental change in the Asia-Pacific region.
A Scotland-based scholar recently selected for the British Council’s EARTH Scholarship, Matthew also convened the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN), leading the organization of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) Biennial Postgraduate Conference 2024.
He has won multiple grants for EEHN, directed its PhD Lab, and led collaborative events with the universities of St Andrews, Oslo, Utrecht, Dundee, Aberdeen, Bristol, and Oxford. His work has been published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Matthew was previously a visiting fellow at Harvard University.
RCC Research Project: Repurposed Poetics: (Re)Writing Imperialism and the Environment in the Pacific
Selected Publications:
- “Arts of Noticing: Attention and the Environment.” Green Letters (forthcoming).
- “Re-Presentation and Repurposing: Climate Realism in Ben Lerner’s 10:04.” In “Climate Fiction and the Limits of Representation.” Ed. Caleb Ferrari and Lenka Filipova. Special Issue, Future Humanities (forthcoming).
- “Thick Language and the Ecological Stuplime in Juliana Spahr’s Well Then There Now (2011).” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2024). https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isad083.