Hello

A bit of backstory

I'm currently a freelance pain coach and yoga teacher, and I do freelance copyediting. Until February 2026, I was Strategic Communications Officer at TMG Think Tank for Sustainability. From 2023-2024, I worked as a Learning Science Researcher at CODE University of Applied Sciences. From 2021-2022, I was Writer and Editor on the Anthropocene Curriculum project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.

Previously, I was a Researcher in Residence at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (2020-21) and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (2018-20). I completed my PhD at the University of Sussex (UK) in 2017. My academic work was at the intersection of literary studies and the environmental humanities, and is concerned with how ecological crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss are transforming our understanding of the world and our place within it. 

I have previously published under the name "Jemma", but now go by Rowan.