Samantha Walton is Reader in Modern Literature at Bath Spa University (BSU), and currently acting director of BSU’s Research Centre for Environmental Humanities. Her research interests address environmental and psychological themes in modern literature, with particular interest in nature writing, Scottish literature, crime fiction, and ecopoetics. She is the author of three books, as well as a poet, whose publications include Bad Moon (Spam Press, 2020) and Self Heal (Boiler House Press, 2018). As an editor, Dr Walton co-leads the poetry publisher Sad Press, and the ASLE-UKI journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. She is delighted to be able to return to the Rachel Carson Center to conduct this new research, having previously held a Carson Writing Fellowship in 2018–2019 for the project Cultures of Nature and Wellbeing: Connecting Health and the Environment through Literature.
RCC Research Project: Life Without Oil
Selected Publications:
- Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure. London Bloomsbury 2021.
- The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
- Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.