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About

Dr Jonathan Skinner is Reader in English and Comparative Literary Studies and teaches Ecocriticism and Creative Writing. His interests include Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies; Small Press Culture; Sound Studies; Critical Theory; and Translation. He is founder and editor of , a journal which features creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology.

Research interests

My main interests are ecopoetics and contemporary poetry and poetics (mostly North American, but with an international scope and emphasis). I have published critical essays on Charles Olson, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Ronald Johnson, Larry Eigner, Lorine Niedecker, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Bernadette Mayer, and Will Alexander, translations of French poetry and garden theory, essays on bird song from the perspective of ethnopoetics, and essays on horizontal concepts such as the Third Landscape. Currently, I am composing a book of poems investigating connections between birdsong, conservation and lyric tradition, writing a critical introduction to ecopoetics for a university press, and building a research network that facilitates poetry exchanges across languages and cultures along avian flightways.

Teaching and supervision

My current teaching includes the modules:

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• EN9ZE Critical EnvironmentsLink opens in a new window
• EN3E0 DissertationLink opens in a new window

My past teaching has included the modules:

• (Unit 2: Writing Poetry)
• (Science Writing Unit)
• EN238 Practice of PoetryLink opens in a new window
• EN908 Writing PoetryLink opens in a new window
• EN248 Modern American Poetry (Term 2: Post-war American poetry and poetics)

Current PhD supervision:

If茅sinachi Nwadike, "Atlantic Poetics and Hydro-Imaginaries in Nigerian Poetry"
September 2025 -
Chancellors Scholarship
(Co-supervision with Professor Mike Niblett)

Sarah Stewart-Smith, "In Communion: Faith and common land in the works of Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) and John Clare (1793-1864)"
September 2025 -
(Co-supervision with Professor Emma Mason)

Sarah Westcott, "The Animal as Poetic 鈥楳akar鈥�: The Poem as Multi-Species Event"
September 2024 -
AHRC M4C Doctoral Training Partnership
(Co-supervision with Dr. Isabel Galleymore and Dr Megan Cavill, University of Birmingham)

Helena Hunter, "Algae Ecologies: Scale, Temporality and Modes of Address in Contemporary Anthropocene Poetry."
September 2022 -
AHRC M4C Doctoral Training Partnership
(Co-supervision with Dr Philip Leonard and Dr Sally Little, Nottingham Trent University)

Completed PhDs supervised:

Lizzie Smith, "The 'Environmental Uncanny': Unsettling the Multispecies Encounter in Contemporary Environmental Poetry"
September 2021 - November 2025
AHRC M4C Doctoral Training Partnership
(Co-supervision with Nick Lawrence)

Nicola Hamer, "Beyond Elegy: Confronting Grief in Contemporary Ecopoetry"
September 2021 - July 2025
AHRC M4C Doctoral Training Partnership
(Co-supervision with Dr Fabienne Viala)

Joe Bedford, "Green, Pleasant and Ours: Challenging 鈥楩ar-right Ecologism鈥� through Contemporary Environmental Fiction"
September 2021 - July 2025
AHRC M4C Doctoral Training Partnership
(Co-supervision with Dr Jonathan Taylor and Dr Bernhard Forchtner, University of Leicester)

Sam Weselowski, 鈥淢etropolitan Frontiers: Vancouver Poetry and the Urban Form of Extraction, 1965-2018"
September 2020 - October 2024
Chancellors Scholarship
(Co-supervision with Dr Myka Tucker-Abramson and Nick Lawrence)

Tom Crompton, 鈥淧oetics of the Deindustrialising Landscape"
September 2019 - April 2024
Wolfson Fellowship

I have supervised MA dissertations in modernist poetry and ecocriticism, as well as Long Projects in Poetry (Creative Writing) with the 糖心TV Writing Program.

I welcome supervisions in the areas listed under my research interests, for projects with a focus on poetry and poetics.

Selected publications

Essays and Book Chapters

• 鈥淒iffractive Index: Will Alexander鈥檚 Cosmopolitics,鈥� , ed. Joshua Schuster (Palgrave Macmillan Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 2025)
• 鈥淎gain as Eco-Dharma: The Generosity of Joanne Kyger鈥檚 Ecopoetics,鈥�  eds. Jane Falk and Mary Paniccia Carden (Clemson University Press, 2024)
• 鈥淲itness to the Exchange: Documentary Environmental Poetics,鈥� , eds. Bernie Quetchenbach, Mary Newell, Julia Fiedorczuk, Orchid Tierney (Routledge, 2024)
• "," with Tom Crompton, 脡tudes Anglaises 74-1 (2021): 82-103.

• 鈥淏lockade Chants and Cloud-Nets: Terminal Poetics of the Anthropocene,鈥� , ed. Timothy Yu (University of Cambridge Press, 2021)
• 鈥淲hat Sounds: Larry Eigner鈥檚 Environments,鈥� , eds. George Hart and Jennifer Bartlett (University of New Mexico Press, 2021)
• 鈥淭he Unbending of the Faculties: Learning from Frederick Law Olmsted,鈥� , eds. Eric Magrane, Linda Russo, Sarah de Leeuw, and Craig Santos Perez (Routledge Press, 2019)
• 鈥淪tirrup Notes: Fragments on Listening,鈥� , ed. Stephen Benson and Will Montgomery (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)

• 鈥淰isceral Ecopoetics in Charles Olson and Michael McClure: Proprioception, Biology, and the Writing Body,鈥� , ed. Angela Hume and Gillian Osborne (University of Iowa Press, 2018)

• 鈥淓肠辞辫辞别迟颈肠蝉,鈥� , ed. Rachel Greenwald Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

• 鈥淐all the Pulsing Home: Poetry, Fascination and Resonance in Ecocritical Environments,鈥� , ed. Sonja Frenzel and Birgit Neumann (anglistik & englischunterricht, 2017)

• 鈥淰ibrational Communication: Ecopoetics in the Seismic Channel,鈥� , ed. Heidi Lyn Staples and Amy King (BlazeVOX [books], 2017)

• "Gardens of Resistance: Gilles Cl茅ment, New Poetries, and Future Landscapes." Qui Parle, , ed. Katrina Dodson. 19.2 (Spring/Summer 2011).

• "Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape," , ed. Iijima, Brenda (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010)
  
  Poetry

• (Gong Farm, 2024)
• (Little Red Leaves, 2014)
• (BlazeVOX [books], 2011)
• (San Francisco: Albion Books, 2010)
• (Palm Press, 2005)
  
  Translation
• In Praise of Vagabonds (selections) by Gilles Cl茅ment. (Spring/Summer 2011).
• "Toto," Ma Langue est Po茅tique--Selected Work, Christophe Tarkos (Roof Books, 2000)
  
  Edited
• , vols. 1-7 (2001-2007)
  
  Online
• "." Common-place. Vol. 11, no. 4.5. September 2011.
  

  Professional service

  External examiner for BA Creative Writing, University of Roehampton.

  Peer Reviewer for ASAP/Journal, Contemporary Women鈥檚 Writing, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, University of Alabama Press Modern and Contemporary Poetics, Palgrave Macmillan and Paideuma, amongst others.

  External PhD examiner at University of Western Sydney (2014), University of Southampton (2017), University of Nottingham (2019), University of Essex (2019), University of Umea虋 (2020), Nottingham Trent University (2021), University of Otago (2022), University of Edinburgh (2022), Bangor University (2022).