Dr Thomas (Tom) Bristow
Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
BSc (Hons), BA (Hons), MA (Hons), PhD
Contact
| Email: | tom.bristow@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) LG38 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3386 (or +61 2 6773 3386 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Tom completed his BA (2002) and MA (2003) at the University of Leicester. Tom’s MA in Modern Literature was fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (ACHRC), as was his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, for which he was offered a scholarship from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Tom’s doctoral thesis on contemporary poetry (2008) triggered an interest in literature and the environment, which he took to the question of geography in his post-doctoral thesis, written while he was a funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and an honours course convenor in the Department of Philosophy at Edinburgh (2009). Tom’s teaching in literature has covered the eighteenth century to the present day, with particular emphasis in twentieth century literature, especially poetry and place, and time and the novel during his position as Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of English Literature at Edinburgh (2010), which followed five years of pre-honours undergraduate teaching. In addition to his individual awards, Tom has been a team member of successful grant applications to the British Academy and the Mellon Foundation for innovations in bringing together scholars in literature, philosophy and geography; he remains a member of the Human Geography research group as a visiting scholar at the School of GeoSciences, the University of Edinburgh. Tom joined UNE in 2010 and is currently working within an interdisciplinary framework with colleagues in the Water Research and Innovation Network (WRaIN) and Heritage Futures Research Centre. Tom is Australia Vice President, ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture – Australia and New Zealand).
Areas of Teaching
- Introductory Literary Studies
- Composition
- Contemporary Literature
- Critical Theory
- Literature and the Environment
Research interests
- Architectonics, Modalities and Representation in British literature, 1987-1997
- Twenty-first century literary forms
- Poetry as Machine/ Concrete Poetry
Honours or Postgraduate Research Supervision and Examination
- British, Irish and American Literature, post-1945
- Ecopoetics/ Ecocriticism
- Literary Geography
- Post-Romanticism
Publications
“Environment, History, Literature: Materialism as Cultural Ecology in John Burnside’s ‘Four Quartets’” Scottish Literary Review 3.2 (2011): 149-170
“Toward History and the Creaturely: Language and the Intertextual Literary Value Space in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals” in Transformative Values: Human-Environment Relations in Theory and Practice, edited by Emily Brady and Pauline Phemister (New York: Springer, 2011).
“Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature by Louisa Gairn” Scottish Literary Review 2.2 (2010): 216.
“Phenomenology, History, Biosemiotics: Heideggerian and Batesonian Poetics in John Burnside’s Post-Romantic Process Ecology” Green Letters 13 (2010): 74-94.
“Towards New Materialism or Semioclasm and its Discontents: Laurence Coupe, Myth, 2nd ed.” (2009) Green Letters 12 (2010): 64-67.
with Mark Dickinson, “Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Nancy Holmes, Ed. 2009)” Green Letters 12 (2010): 75-76.
“Negative Poetics and Immanence: ‘Homage to Henri Bergson’ by John Burnside” Green Letters 10 (2009): 50-69.
“Les Murray: Biography”, profile “James K. Baxter”, and an extended essay, “Ecopoetics” in Facts on File Companion to World Poetry: 1900 to Present (New York: Facts on File, 2007).
“E.E. Cummings” in Facts on File Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry (New York: Facts on File, 2007).
“ecopoetics no. 4/5 2004-200.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 14.1 (2007): 251-253.
"Contracted to an Eye-quiet World: Poetics of Place in Alice Oswald and William Carlos Williams" Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo American Literary Relations 10.2 (2006): 167-185.
Selected Conference Papers, Seminars and Guest Lectures
Association of American Geographers (2012), New York, USA, "Bioregional Biography and the Geography of Affect: Alice Oswald's Sleepwalk on the Severn"
University of Nottingham, (2010), Universitas 21 International Summer School, Ningbo, China. “Eating Animals: Food Farms and Ethics in Contemporary Literature.”
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), Edinburgh (2009), Postdoctoral seminar. “Iain Sinclair’s Critical Literary Geography.”
University of AlCalá (2009), Third International Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASCLE), AlCalá de Henares. “Cultural Landscape: Cognitive and Aesthetic Construction in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.”
University of Edinburgh (2008), Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, (ASLE-UK), Edinburgh. “Towards Interdisciplinary Environmental Aesthetics.”
University of Wales (2006), British Association of Romantic Studies (BARS): Romanticism, Environment, Crisis. Centre for Romantic Studies, Aberystwyth. “John Burnside’s Post-Romanticism.”
University of Oregon (2005), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Department of English, Eugene. “Contracted to an eye-quiet world: Linking the principles behind Williams' Paterson to Oswald's Dart.”
University of Nottingham (2003), Post-Romantic Identities: the Impact of Romanticism on Subsequent Constructions of Self, the School of English Studies, Nottingham. “Players and Painted Stage: The ‘Last’ Poems of W.B. Yeats.”