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 joined the University of New England as Lecturer in English in 2011 following his position as Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh (2010). Tom received UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding for his MA (Leicester); AHRC funding and a College of Humanities and Social Sciences scholarship from Edinburgh for his PhD (Edinburgh); he was the University of Edinburgh funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH, 2009) following his period as British Academy funded Research Assistant in the School of Geosciences (2008).
Tom’s research brings together literature, philosophy and geography; he is a research adjunct to RMIT's Arts, Environment and Global Interpretation of Science group (AEGIS) and he remains a member of the Human Geography research group as a visiting scholar at the School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh. Tom is published in The Australian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, ISLE and Symbiosis, and is a member of the editorial board of PAN (Philosophy, Activism, Nature); he is President of ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture – Australia and New Zealand).
Areas of Teaching
- Introductory Literary Studies
- Contemporary Literature
- Literature and the Environment
Research interests
- British Literature
- Literary Geography
- Ecocriticism
Dr Tom Bristow is part of the Posthuman Literary and Cultural Studies Research Group.
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
University of New England (2012), ‘Larger than a creek: Undulations, Rhythms and Folk Culture’; Rivers in Contemporary Literature, Ecological Humanities Symposium. ‘“Region” and Rhythm in Alice Oswald’s Dart and Sleepwalk on the Severn.'
Monash University (2012), Regarding the Earth, fourth biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture (ASLEC-ANZ). ‘Australian Post-Pastoral: John Kinsella’s Disclosed Poetics.’
The Cultural History of Climate Change (2012), Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra. ‘Necessary Impurities and the Geological Sublime: Standpoint in the Literary Anthropocene.’
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.'