Natalie's research specialisms are in multi-disciplinary approaches to contemporary writing and visual culture. She is an expert in Anglophone poetry and its connection with artistic practices, ecologies and entangled agencies. Natalie has just completed her third book, due out with Bloomsbury in 2025, on global climate imaginaries. She is the author of two published monographs: Fugitive Pieces: Poetry, Publishing and Visual Culture from Late Modernism to the 21C (Oxford UP, 2020) and Speaking to You: Contemporary Poetry and Public Address (OUP, 2012), and the editor of Don Paterson: Contemporary Critical Essays (Edinburgh UP, 2014). She is also the director of Unhoming Pedagogies, a network which brings together global scholars and students to consider the potential for unmooring anthropocentric educational norms, colonial knowledge structures and power hierarchies, through practices that involve risk-taking and bewilderment, creative digression, environmental and multispecies collaboration.

Natalie has active research and teaching interests at the intersections of the arts, humanites and natural/social sciences. Her current research explores the narrative and visual potentials for mapping-worlds-otherwise. She also has particular interest in the following 20-21C writers, amongst others: Craig Santos Perez, Alice Oswald, Rita Wong, M. NourbeSe Philip, Caroline Bergvall, J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, J.R. Carpenter, Jordan Abel, Cecilia Vicuña, Geoffrey Hill, Paul Muldoon, Zoe Wicomb, Ivan Vladislavic, Denise Riley, Ted Hughes, David Jones, T.S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes.

Research supervision:

I am open to discussing future research proposals on any relevant subject in my research areas. I would be especially happy to consider working with candidates with interests in the following areas: transdisciplinary approaches to literature and culture, contemporary poetics and ecological care, modernism, issues-based theory/criticism, anti-colonial and decolonial practices in HE, writing and philosophy, artworks as forms of knowledge, publishing cultures and anti-canonicity, literature and the plastic arts (especially architecture, sculpture), the repurposing of classical, medieval, early modern artefacts in contemporary culture, posthumanist and new materialist appraoches to research.