Nicola Hamer
IATL ECTF
Email: Nicola.Hamer@warwick.ac.uk
Bio
Nicola Hamer has recently completed an AHRC-funded PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her doctoral thesis explored how communities across the USA, Jamaica and Barbados use poetry to process and protest ecological grief — grief caused by broken relationships within ecosystems. Nicola has given talks at conferences in five countries and shared her work in creative and academic publications. An Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate classes on literary theory and ecocriticism, and done public engagement work with schools in the Coventry area. She also founded the Warwick Ecopoetics Reading Group, which has hosted events with many internationally acclaimed writers.