David Farrier
Senior Lecturer
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3607
- Email: David.Farrier@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2.52
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Wednesday 12.00 - 1.00pm
Background
David Farrier studied at the University of Leeds (BA, MA, PhD). Before being appointed at Edinburgh in 2010, he was Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature for four years at the University of Leicester (where he was awarded a University Teaching Award in 2008). In 2017 he held a Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship at the University of New South Wales.
Research summary
David's most recent books consider the new reality of the Anthropocene. Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction (Minnesota Press, 2019) is a study of contemporary environmental poetry, and Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (4th Estate/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020), written for a general readership, explores what traces of present societies will persist in the deep future. Footprints won the Royal Society of Literature's Giles St Aubyn award for unpublished non-fiction in 2017. David is particularly interested in how literature, especially poetry, responds to the challenges of the Anthropocene.
David is also the author of Postcolonial Asylum (Liverpool University Press, 2011), and Unsettled Narratives (Routledge, 2007), and has published widely in the fields of ecocriticism and postcolonial studies.
Research activities
Project activity
David convenes the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network and is a co-investigator on the multi-disciplinary AHRC-funded project 'Caring for the Future Through Ancestral Time'.
In 2012-13 he was part of a Creative Scotland funded project, Making it Home, which used poetry-based film-making to build bridges of shared experience, dialogue and integration between two diverse groups of women in Scotland: women who are refugees, supported by the Maryhill Integration Network in Glasgow; and local women from Women Supporting Women in Pilton, Edinburgh.
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Unexpected encounters with Deep Time
In:
Environmental Humanities, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 213-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-4385534
Contribution to journal › Editorial (Published) -
Anthropocene Poetics : Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction
Book/Report › Book (Accepted/In press) -
Footprints : In Search of Future Fossils
Book/Report › Book (Accepted/In press) -
Animal detectives and ‘Anthropocene noir’ in Chloe Hooper’s A child’s book of true crime
(20 pages)
In:
Textual Practice, pp. 875-893
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2016.1275756
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Sands of Time
(Published) -
What does deep time mean?
(Published) -
Deep time’s uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces
(Published) -
J.A. Baker's The Peregrine and its Readers
(17 pages)
In:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 742-759
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv094
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Composing a world of common vulnerability : Spectral metaphors and disoriented migrations in Ruth Padel’s 'The Mara Crossing'
(14 pages)
In:
Culture, Theory and Critique
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2015.1104255
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Disaster’s gift : Anthropocene and Capitalocene temporalities in Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha’
(17 pages)
In:
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, pp. 450-466
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1079500
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)