Professor

Email: g dot macdonald at warwick dot ac dot uk

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Faculty of Arts Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL

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About

Dr Graeme Macdonald is Professor, and teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies program. MA (Jt Hons in Literature and Sociology) Aberdeen; PhD (Glasgow); (PGCHE) Warwick.

Research interests

Current research interests include Resource Culture in World Literature/Globalisation; Energy Humanities and Petrofiction; Environmental Humanities, Science Fiction; Modern and Contemporary Scottish and British Culture. I am editor of Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature (EUP 2011) and Post Theory: New Directions in Criticism (EUP, 1999). I have recently edited a new edition of John McGrath's play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (2015) Currently preparing a monograph, Petrofiction: Oil and World Literature. I am a member of WreC (Warwick Research Collective), who work on new ways to think about World Literature/Literature in the World. We have published a co-written monograph on Peripheral Modernism and World Literature: Combined and Uneven Development: Toward a New Theory of World Literature (LUP: 2015) I was Co-Investigator on the RSE Research Network, Connecting with a Low Carbon Scotland (2016-18).

I am at present CI on the multi-national project Climaginaries: narrating socio-cultural transitions to a post-fossil society, funded by FORMAS (Swedish Research Council)

Teaching and supervision

Research supervision: I would welcome research projects in the fields of energy humanities and petroculture, environmental humanities, climate change and climate imaginaries, science fiction, modern Scottish/British literature and culture, materialist projects on world literature.

I have currently have two PhD students:

• Nora Castle (Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Speculative Fiction)
• Harry Pitt-Scott (The Offshore Imaginary: Fossil Finance and Petroculture, 1973-2008
• I have supervised the following PhD projects:

• Lara Choksey (‘Life Itself’ in Doris Lessing’s Space Fiction: Evolution, Epigenetics and Culture)
• Rhys Williams (Cognitive Impurities: A Political Approach to Fantastic Fiction in the Neoliberal Age)
• Chris Maughan (Activism Ltd – Environmental Activism and Contemporary Literature)

• Gemma Goodman, (Alternative Cornwalls: Constructing Place in Victorian and Modern Cornish Literature)

• Sumana Ray, (Beyond Multiculturalism: the emergence of the liminal Briton in contemporary British Asian women’s writing) (part-supervision)

• Natasha Dunn, (Trauma in Six Late Twentieth Century Women’s Novels)

• I have also supervised MA Dissertations in a variety of topics, including:

  Dostoevsky and World-Literature"

  Petro-Apocalypse: Three Novels of the end of oil

  Petro-Gothic: the grotesque body in Caribbean Petrofiction

  Globalisation, Reification, and the Culture Industry in the 20^th Century

  Contemporary Mythopoeia: Chuck Palahniuk and Haruki Murakami

  H.P. Lovecraft: Fantasy, Politics, and Reality

  Magic Realism in Calvino and Carter

My BA options include:

• The European Novel
• The Global Novel
• Alternative Lifeworlds

MA options include Petrofiction: Studies in World Literature.

Selected recent publications

• Editor (inc. extensive Introduction): John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (Bloomsbury 2015)
• Co-author, with Warwick Research Collective Monograph: Combined and Uneven Development: Toward a New Theory of World Literature (LUP: 2015)
• Co-ed., Post Theory: New Directions in Criticism (EUP, 1999),
• Co-ed., Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Contexts and Critical Perspectives (EUP 2011)
• "Containing Oil: The Pipeline in Petroculture", Petrocultures: Oil, Culture, Politics (McGill-Queens UP: 2017)
• "Monstrous Transformer: Petrofiction and World Literature", Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Issue: "Resistant Resources/Resources of Resistance: World-Literature, World-Literature and Energetic Materialism", Vol 53, no. 3, 2017
• "Fiction", in Szeman, Yaeger, and Wenzel (eds), Fueling Culture (Fordham University Press: 2017)
• Co-writer (with After Oil School Collective): After Oil (Petrocultures Research Group: Alberta, 2016)
• (Co-Author) “Teaching Climate Change in the Neoliberal University”, Lemenager & Hall (eds), Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities (London: Routledge, 2016)
• "Impossibility Drives: the Energy of SF", Paradoxa Vol. 26 (2014): 111-144. (Winner of SFRA Pioneer Award, 2015) (Reprinted in Online SF Journal Strange Horizons, April 2016)
• "The Resources of Fiction", Reviews in Cultural Theory Vol 4, Issue 2 (2013): 1-24. (Reprinted in Energy Humanities: An Anthology, Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer (eds) (Baltimore Johns Hopkins UP, 2017)
• "Oil and World Literature", American Book Review, March/April 2012, Vol. 33, No. 3
• "The Kilted Dragon: Contemporary Scottish Fiction and the New Imperialism", in Within/Without Empire: Scotland Across the (Post)Colonial Borderline (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2013): 150-67.
• "Scottish Extractions: 'Race' and Racism in Devolutionary Fiction", Orbis Litterarum, Vol. 65: 2, (2010), 79-107
• "Green Links: Ecosocialism and Contemporary Scottish Writing", in Ecology and the Literature of the British Left (2012)
• "Postcolonialism and Scottish Studies", New Formations: After Iraq, 59 Autumn (2006)

Qualifications

• MA [Jt Hons] (Aberdeen)
• PhD (Glasgow)