CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Project title: Anthropocene nature and environmental crisis narrative, 1960 to the present
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: University of Leeds (UK)
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  Anthropocene; nature; nature writing; environmental crisis narrative

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I\'m looking for partners to join a Europe-wide consortium for a CHANSE-HERA project with the current working title \'Anthropocene nature and environmental crisis narrative, 1960 to the present\'. I have a sketched-out version of the project already, but would be more than willing to adapt it to others\' interests. Being based as I am in the UK, and having previously received HERA funding, I think I might have to be restricted to a back-up role so am actively looking for someone to lead. Partners from all over Europe are welcome; however, I\'d particularly appreciate expressions of interest from eastern and southern Europe, and from smaller European countries. The project as it stands focuses on British and American nature writing, but it would be great to have people with expertise in non-Anglophone nature writing on board. Someone with expertise in Indigenous and/or minority ethnic perspectives would also be good, and generally speaking I\'m looking for a decent disciplinary mix, so geographers, anthropologists and ecologists (among others) are most welcome as well.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  As noted above, the project focuses on contemporary British and American nature writing, which I\'d like to re-badge as environmental crisis narrative in the context of four interrelated crises linked, directly or indirectly, to the Anthropocene: the climate crisis, the extinction crisis, the crisis of the commons, and the crisis of health. All of these crises are folded, of course, into the global environmental crisis. The project works with literature in the main, but could also include film, TV and other media.

Professor Graham Huggan

• Organisation: University of Leeds (UK)
• Position: Professor of English
• E-mail: g.d.m.huggan@leeds.ac.uk
• Phone: +44(0)7807473471
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