lawrence@warwick.ac.uk
Nick Lawrence teaches on the MA in Environmental Humanities at the University of Warwick. His research and teaching interests include theorising recent world-literary debates under the sign of the Anthropocene; modernism and the poetics of world-ecology; ecology and labour in American literature and culture; eco-Marxism and critical theory; and theories of degrowth. These interests are reflected in three current studies: Sacrifice Zones: Neoliberal Culture and the Limits to Capitalist Nature, on the co-production of weird nature and weird culture in contemporary literary responses to capitalist crisis; World-Literature in the Anthropocene, a disciplinary field assessment; and Degrowth Imaginaries, a survey of cultural prefigurations of a world order beyond the present regime of open-ended capitalist accumulation, extractivism and ecocide. He gardens against the apocalypse outside Coventry in the UK.