David Farrier

Professor David Farrier is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. He also convenes the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network. David’s current research is in literary responses to environmental change and the Anthropocene. He is especially interested in:

• the way contemporary poetry responds to or can be read in light of these issues
• issues to do with deep time and the difficulty of imagining environmental futures
• the problem of defining an Anthropocene poetics.

David's previous work looked at the relationship between asylum/refugee discourse and postcolonial studies. David’s notable publications include:

• Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (4th Estate, 2020)
• Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
• Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) with E. Cox, S. Durrant, L. Stonebridge, and A. Woolley.