Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability

Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis expands postcolonial precarity studies by addressing the current climate crisis and threats to the habitability of the planet from a range of ecocritical and environmental perspectives.

Janet M. Wilson is emerita Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. Her research focuses on the diaspora and postcolonial writing of the settler colonies of New Zealand and Australia, and on literature and globalisation, transculturalism and transnationalism, and refugee writing. Her most recent publication is the coedited volume, New Zealand medievalism: Reframing the medieval (2024). She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, coeditor of Studies in World Literature (Ibidem-Verlag), and chair of the global network, Challenging Precarity.

Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her main research interests are Postcolonial Studies and eighteenth-century British literature and culture. She is a member of the steering committee of the international network Challenging Precarity and has co-edited the collections of essays Representing Poverty in the Anglophone Postcolonial World (Bonn University Press, 2021) and Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World (Brill, 2022). She is a member of the DFG-funded research training school Gegenwart/Literatur (Contemporary/Literature) and an elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science, Humanities and the Arts.

Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English literature at Bennett University, Utter Pradesh, India. He is the author of Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English (2022); Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (2014); and co-author with Lisa Lau of Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014).