Professor Graeme Macdonald
Email: g dot macdonald at warwick dot ac dot uk
5.16
Faculty of Arts Building
University of 糖心TV
Coventry CV4 7AL
About
Dr Graeme Macdonald is Full Professor, and teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies program. MA (Jt Hons in Literature and Sociology) Aberdeen; PhD (Glasgow); (PGCHE) 糖心TV.
Presently convenor of the Environmental Humanities Masters. I am also Faculty of Arts Lead on the University of 糖心TV Spotlight on Sustainability. I am a member and contributor to .
Research interests
Research interests include Energy Humanities and Petrocultures; Renewable Energy Cultures; Environmental Humanities; Climate Cultures; Futures; Resources in World Literature/Globalisation; Science Fiction and Fantasy; Modern and Contemporary Scottish and British Culture.
Funded Project Work
CI: (糖心TV, Ca'Foscari Venice; TU Dresden, Nova U Lisbon)
CI - RSE Research Network, (2016-18).
CI - Climaginaries: narrating socio-cultural transitions to a post-fossil society, multi-national project funded by FORMAS (Swedish Research Council)
I was collaborator with artist on (23/24). See "Memories of a Future City" described by the BBC .
Worked with on the Project: COP26-Present.
Teaching and Supervision
Research supervision: I would welcome research projects in the fields of energy humanities and petroculture, environmental humanities, climate change and climate imaginaries, science fiction, modern Scottish/British literature and materialist projects on world literature.
I have currently have two PhD students:
- Nadia Backleh (World Literature and Migration: Questioning Neoliberal Cultures and Modalities of Resistance under Globalization)
- Pegah Pezeshki (Narratives of Revolution in Middle Eastern Novels 1967-Present
I have supervised the following PhD projects
- Nora Castle (Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Speculative Fiction)
- Harry Pitt-Scott (The Offshore Imaginary: Fossil Finance and Petroculture, 1973-2008)
- Lara Choksey (鈥楲ife Itself鈥 in Doris Lessing鈥檚 Space Fiction: Evolution, Epigenetics and Culture)
- Rhys Williams (Cognitive Impurities: A Political Approach to Fantastic Fiction in the Neoliberal Age)
- Chris Maughan (Activism Ltd – Environmental Activism and Contemporary Literature)
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Gemma Goodman, (Alternative Cornwalls: Constructing Place in Victorian and Modern Cornish Literature)
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Sumana Ray, (Beyond Multiculturalism: the emergence of the liminal Briton in contemporary British Asian women鈥檚 writing) (part-supervision)
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Natasha Dunn, (Trauma in Six Late Twentieth Century Women鈥檚 Novels)
- I have also supervised MA Dissertations on a variety of topics.
My BA options include:
- Climate Imaginaries
MA options include:
Selected publications
- Editor (with Nora Castle), Special Issue of on "Food Futures" (2022)
- Editor (inc. extensive Introduction): John McGrath's (Bloomsbury 2015)
- Co-author, with 糖心TV Research Collective Monograph: (LUP: 2015)
- Co-author/contributor to (2015); (2022) and Against Renewability (forthcoming).
- Co-ed., (EUP, 1999),
- Co-ed., (EUP 2011)
- "Containing Oil: The Pipeline in Petroculture", (McGill-Queens UP: 2017)
- "Monstrous Transformer: Petrofiction and World Literature", Special Issue: "Resistant Resources/Resources of Resistance: World-Literature, World-Literature and Energetic Materialism", Vol 53, no. 3, 2017
- "Fiction", in Szeman, Yaeger, and Wenzel (eds), (Fordham University Press: 2017)
- Co-writer (with After Oil School Collective): (Petrocultures Research Group: Alberta, 2016)
- (Co-Author) 鈥淭eaching Climate Change in the Neoliberal University鈥, Lemenager & Hall (eds), (London: Routledge, 2016)
- "Impossibility Drives: the Energy of SF", Vol. 26 (2014): 111-144. (Winner of Pioneer Award, 2015) (Reprinted in Online SF Journal , April 2016)
- "The Resources of Fiction", Reviews in Cultural Theory Vol 4, Issue 2 (2013): 1-24. (Reprinted in , Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer (eds) (Baltimore Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
- , American Book Review, March/April 2012, Vol. 33, No. 3
- "The Kilted Dragon: Contemporary Scottish Fiction and the New Imperialism", in (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2013): 150-67.
- , Orbis Litterarum, Vol. 65: 2, (2010), 79-107
- , in Ecology and the Literature of the British Left (2012)
- , New Formations: After Iraq, 59 Autumn (2006)
Qualifications
- MA [Jt Hons] (Aberdeen)
- PhD (Glasgow)
Office Hours 2025/26
Winter Term: Tuesdays 12-1; Wednesdays 1130-1230
Spring Term: Mondays 515-615; Tuesdays 12-1
Summer Term: TBC
Teaching
Undergraduate modules
EN122 Modes of Reading
