MLitt, Modernities: Literature, Theory and Culture, University of Glasgow

BA, English and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

Thesis Working Title

Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Speculative Fiction

Publications

• The Sociopolitics of Language: Bilingual Education in Tibet in Sino-Platonic Papers
• Remaking Mao: From Propaganda to Pop Culture in the Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs

Conference Papers

• 7-9 November, 2019: "Which came first, the broiler chicken or the Anthropocene?: Meat Imaginaries in Contemporary Speculative Fiction", At Craving Planet Earth: Food in Culture - Past, Present, and Future, hosted at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
• 1-5 July, 2019: "Meat Culture/Cultured Meat: Food Futures in Contemporary Climate Fiction" At "Utopia, Dystopia and Climate Change", 20th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, Europe, hosted at the Monash University Prato Centre, Italy
• 11-13 April, 2019: "Techno-Utopia and the Future of Food in The Blind Pig." At More Meals to Come: An International Conference, hosted at the University of Porto, Portugal
• 17th November, 2018: "'Ethical' Foodways: Justifying Cannibalism in Contemporary Speculative Fiction." At ''Bites Here and There'': Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism across Disciplines, hosted at the University of Warwick, UK

Organisation

• Flows and Floods: Changing Environments and Cultures, a one-day interdisciplinary conference funded by the HRC Doctoral Fellowship
• 15th Annual English Postgraduate Symposium, a one-day conference showcasing the work of the University of Warwick's postgraduates in English and Comparative Literary Studies and related disciplines

Editorial Roles

• Associate Editor, Exchanges, Special Issue on Cannibalism, forthcoming
• Associate Editor, Exchanges, Special Issue on Climate Fiction, forthcoming

Teaching

• 2019-2020: Seminar Tutor for EN122 Modes of Reading

Membership

• Environmental Humanities Network
• Utopian Studies Society (Europe)
• New Voices in Postcolonial Studies

Nora.Castle@warwick.ac.uk

Supervisor:
Dr. Graeme Macdonald

Funded by:
Chancellor's International Scholarship

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Office Hour:
Thursdays 11am-12pm
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