David Farrier

Professor of Literature and the Environment

English Literature
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3607
Email: David.Farrier@ed.ac.uk
Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile

Street: Room 2.52
50 George Square
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9LH

Office Hour: Wednesdays 11.00am - 12.00pm

Biography

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

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) 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 Footprints won the Royal Society of Literature's Giles St Aubyn award for unpublished non-fiction in 2017.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.