Research Forum - Climate Fiction Across Borders
Date: October 23, 2026 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Virtual through Zoom - https://queensu.zoom.us/j/92093156647?pwd=g32M6ETxECmZkZY7y92dfTywMUqjSo.1&jst=1
English Literature & Creative Writing presents special guest speakers: THREE PAPERS / COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES1. COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE FICTION - Adeline Johns-Putra • Queen's UniversityAdeline Johns-Putra is a Professor of English Literature at Queen’s University in Kingston. She is a former President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UK and Ireland) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her publications include Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel (2019), Climate and Literature (2019), and The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (2022), all with Cambridge University Press, and over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.2. TOWARD THE UNDERCURRENTS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE - Hongri Wang • Ghent UniversityHongri Wang is an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University whose research focuses on narratology, ecocriticism, comparative literature, and Chinese and American environmental fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Textual Practice, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, and the Bloomsbury Handbook to Literatures of the Nonhuman.3. SITUATED ANTHROPOCENES: ITALIAN CLIMATE FICTION - Giulia Bernuzzi • University College CorkGiulia Bernuzzi is a doctoral candidate at University College Cork researching climate crisis and urban space in contemporary Italian literature. An Irish Research Council scholar, she publishes on Italian cinema and literature, co-convenes UCC’s Rethinking Spatial Humanities cluster, and co-edits Aigne.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://queensu.zoom.us/j/92093156647?pwd=g32M6ETxECmZkZY7y92dfTywMUqjSo.1&jst=1Join and take noteshttps://queensu.zoom.us/j/92093156647?pwd=g32M6ETxECmZkZY7y92dfTywMUqjSo.1&jst=1&mynotes=onMeeting ID: 920 9315 6647Passcode: 091418
Location: Virtual through Zoom - https://queensu.zoom.us/j/92093156647?pwd=g32M6ETxECmZkZY7y92dfTywMUqjSo.1&jst=1
English Literature & Creative Writing presents special guest speakers: THREE PAPERS / COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES1. COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CLIMATE FICTION - Adeline Johns-Putra • Queen's UniversityAdeline Johns-Putra is a Professor of English Literature at Queen’s University in Kingston. She is a former President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UK and Ireland) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her publications include Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel (2019), Climate and Literature (2019), and The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (2022), all with Cambridge University Press, and over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.2. TOWARD THE UNDERCURRENTS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE - Hongri Wang • Ghent UniversityHongri Wang is an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University whose research focuses on narratology, ecocriticism, comparative literature, and Chinese and American environmental fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Textual Practice, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, and the Bloomsbury Handbook to Literatures of the Nonhuman.3. SITUATED ANTHROPOCENES: ITALIAN CLIMATE FICTION - Giulia Bernuzzi • University College CorkGiulia Bernuzzi is a doctoral candidate at University College Cork researching climate crisis and urban space in contemporary Italian literature. An Irish Research Council scholar, she publishes on Italian cinema and literature, co-convenes UCC’s Rethinking Spatial Humanities cluster, and co-edits Aigne.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://queensu.zoom.us/j/92093156647?pwd=g32M6ETxECmZkZY7y92dfTywMUqjSo.1&jst=1Join and take noteshttps://queensu.zoom.us/j/92093156647?pwd=g32M6ETxECmZkZY7y92dfTywMUqjSo.1&jst=1&mynotes=onMeeting ID: 920 9315 6647Passcode: 091418