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'Vertigo', Consilience, 24 (September, 2025). A poem about the vertiginous feeling of being alive in the Anthropocene.
'How We Got Here', Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review, no. 9 (February 2026). A brief history of the universe, as related by someone older and wiser than all of it.
The Geological Anthropocene, Anthropocene-Curriculum.org.
An in-depth guide to the scientific research into the geological Anthropocene, including in-depth guides to each of the twelve research sites, an introduction to the ratification process, an interview, and FAQs.
'Reading in the Dark', Orion Magazine (Winter 2021).
On my experience of finding out I have aphantasia (the lack of a mind's eye), what it's like to read as an aphantasic, and what it has taught me about how we all tend to underestimate neurodiversities.
‘Inconvenient truths: the psychology of coronavirus and the climate crisis’, The Canary (April 16 2020).
What the pandemic reveals about our pyschology, and how it pertains to effective climate action.
‘To effect change, Extinction Rebellion must learn how to talk to right-wingers’, The New Stateman (May 7, 2019).
Why activist tactics may have the opposite effect from the one intended.
Books
Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2020).
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
'Cognitive dissonance in programming education: A qualitative exploration of the impact of generative AI on application-directed learning', Computers in Human Behavior Reports 19 (2025).
'Programming education and learner motivation in the age of generative AI: student and educator perspectives', Information and Learning Sciences 126:1-2 (2025), 91–109.
‘Mycorrhizal Metaphors: The Buried Life of Language and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s The Grassling’, ECOZON@ 13:2 (2022), 139–153.
‘Birdwatching and Wordwatching: The Avian Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway’, in Danette DiMarco and Tim Ruppert (eds), Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination (London and New York: Lexington, 2022), 9–23.
‘The Uncanny: A Step-by-Step Guide’, Oxford Literary Review 42:2 (2020), 179–183.
‘Deconstruction’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (Oxford University Press, 2020).
‘Quenched: Five Fires for Thinking Extinction’, Oxford Literary Review 41:1 (2019), 1–17.
‘Addressed to You: Nonhuman Missives from Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love’, Mosaic 50:3 (2017), 175–189.
‘More Strange Return: What Freud Owes Literature’, Oxford Literary Review 38:2 (2016), 221–239.
‘A Chance Definition', in 'Responses to Chance in Other Words’, Oxford Literary Review 38:2 (2016), 296–308.
Audio and Video
'Unearthing the Present: The Geology and Culture of the Anthropocene', Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin.
A long-form audio piece that I wrote, narrated, and edited about the geology and culture of the Anthropocene.
'The Anthropocene at HKW', Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2022).
I wrote and performed the script for this video: a culmination of the 10-year Anthropocene Project at HKW.
Shakespeare for All (audio series). Listen on Spotify.
Associate Producer and Narrator of this introduction to Shakespeare's work, featuring Shakespearean actors and scholars including Stephen Greenblatt, Emma Smith, and Farah Karim-Cooper.
EcoCast, the podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (2020–2022). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Founding co-host. Environmental humanities research and teaching, environmental art, and environmental justice.
Space Yoga, Guerilla Science, with the UK Space Agency and the National Space Centre.
A 5-part video series that I wrote and hosted, exploring the effects of microgravity on the body and mind through a strengthening yoga practice.
Interviews and Conversations
Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, on my book Radical Animism.
'Conversation with Jan Zalasiewicz', Haus der Kulturen der Welt. I interview Jan Zalasiewicz about the research into the geological Anthropocene.
Greenhouse environmental book talk series (2021), on Radical Animism.
Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre (ShARC) podcast, on the extinction crisis.
Beyond Species podcast, on fungi, animism, and anti-speciesism.
Edge Effects podcast (with a text version of the interview), on Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
New Books Network podcast, on Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
Alliance: Humanities & Existential Risk, University of Oxford, on literature and climate change.
Conference Talks
'Mycorrhizal Metaphors: The Buried Life of Language', EMERGENCE/Y, ASLE conference (2021).
How thinking fungally can transform how we conceive of the strange, underground life of language and our entanglements in it.
'Quick: Life and Speed in an Era of Extinction', Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency, ASLE online symposium.
The perils and possibilities of quickness in the Anthropocene, through J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World and the October 2018 IPCC report.