Dr. Adeline Johns Putra

Biography

Adeline Johns-Putra specializes in climate literature, particularly contemporary climate fiction, and has a background as a trained Romanticist. Her research interests also include women’s writing from the British Romantic period and epic poetry. Born and raised in Malaysia, she has attended university in Australia and worked in universities across Finland, the United Kingdom, China, and Malaysia, eventually joining Queen’s University. She has held distinguished positions such as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. Additionally, she was a Visiting Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University. From 2011 to 2015, she served as President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in the UK and Ireland (ASLE UKI) and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. Currently, she is working on a study of the life writings of the poet Eleanor Anne Porden within the context of poethood and the gendering of knowledge during the British Romantic period. Her research encompasses comparative cultural histories of climate and welcomes inquiries from graduate students interested in supervision regarding ecocriticism, especially questions related to climate, the Anthropocene, British Romanticism, gender issues, and the epic form from the eighteenth century onwards.

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