Profile
Adeline Johns-Putra’s research interests are ecocriticism (with a focus on climate change), Romanticism, and epic poetry. She is Professor of English Literature at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. She was President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, from 2011 to 2015. She serves on the editorial boards of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism and C21: Journal of Twenty-First-Century Writings, and the advisory boards of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change and the Oxford Intersections: Climate Adaptations book series for Oxford University Press.
Her monographs include Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel (Cambridge University Press) and The History of the Epic (Palgrave Macmillan). Her edited books include The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, with Kelly Sultzbach (Cambridge University Press), Climate and Literature (Cambridge University Press), Cli-Fi: A Companion, with Axel Goodbody (Peter Lang), and Literature and Sustainability, with John Parham and Louise Squire (Manchester University Press). Her papers have appeared in leading journals such as Studies in the Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and English Studies. With Nicole Seymour and Sam Solnick, she edits the Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment book series for Liverpool University Press.
