Keynote Speaker

Dr. Graeme Macdonald is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including modules on The European Novel, The Global Novel, Alternative Lifeworlds and Petrofiction. His recent editorial work includes Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature (2011) and and the peer-reviewed journal collections Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2019) and Environment, Ecology and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature (2019). He also edited a recent edition of John McGrath’s play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (2015). He is a member of The Warwick Research Collective (WReC) and co-author of Combined and Uneven Development: Toward a New Theory of World Literature (2015). He is also co-author of After Oil (2016) with the Petrocultures Research Group. Recent articles on energy and petroculture include “Impossibility Drives: the Energy of SF” (winner of SFRA Pioneer award, 2015); “Containing Oil: The Pipeline in Petroculture” (2017); “Monstrous Transformer: Petrofiction and World Literature” (2017); “The Resources of Culture” (2013, repr. in Energy Humanities: An Anthology, 2017) and “Fictional Resources” (2017). He is currently preparing a monograph, entitled Petrofiction: Oil and World Literature, and co-editing Energy Humanities: A Handbook (2020). He was co-investigator on the Royal Society of Edinburgh Humanities Research Network, Connecting with a low carbon Scotland and is presently CI on the FORMAS funded international research project Climaginaries.

 

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