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Alexandra Campbell is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Glasgow specializing in poetry and environment. Her current research interests revolve around issues of waste, energy, water, and marine justice in contemporary world literature. She is particularly interested in examining how poetic texts manifest asymmetries of power and conditions of unevenness that are shaped by contemporary water crises, oceanic and otherwise. She is increasingly fascinated by the emergent fields of infrastructure studies and critical future studies and the ways in which the poetics of infrastructure shape, condition, promise, or prohibit certain ideas of the future. Working with Dr. Fred Carter, their RCC project “Insurgent Ecologies” will examine the relations between insurgency and ecology within the climate activist movement.
RCC Research Project: Insurgent Ecologies
Selected Publications:
- “Marine Energy.” In Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities, edited by Graeme Macdonald and Janet Stewart. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2023.
- with Michael Paye. “Water Enclosure and World-Literature: New Perspectives on Hydro-Power and World-Ecology.” Humanities 9, no. 3 (August 2020): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030106.
- “Atlantic Exchanges: The Poetics of Dispersal and Disposal in Scottish and Caribbean Seas.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55, no. 2 (May 2019): 195–208. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2019.1590622.
- “Extractive Poetics: Marine Energies in Scottish Literature.” Humanities 8, no. 1 (January 2019): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010016.
- “Sound Waves: “Blue Ecology” in the Poetry of Robin Robertson and Kathleen Jamie.” Études Écossaises 19, no. 1 (2017). https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesecossaises.1199.