About

Hello, welcome and thanks for visiting my website. I started this blog because of my interest in the relationship between literature and the environment. I’m a Professor  in Literature at the University of Essex, UK. Our campus is particularly noted for its trees and wildlife and I’m involved in several of advisory groups as well as leading our Environmental Arts and Humanities Hub. I’m also Honorary Fellow in Literary Studies at the University of Wyoming. Through UW, Wyoming became a kind of second home, and I divide much of my time between East Anglia and the western USA. Thinking about those two very different locations informs a fair number of the posts on this site. Others engage with the East Anglian region in which I live, and Australia where I have family and friends. I also write about Romantic and Scottish literature, and transatlantic literary culture, and the role of magazines, newspapers and journals in circulating knowledge. I’m a keen walker and runner, mindful of the fragile nature of the everyday natural world in which we live.

To find out more about my publications and other professional activities, visit my University and professional media webpages at: Susan Oliver @ the University of Essex, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Google Scholar and Academia.edu