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
Office Hour: Mondays 1.00 - 2.00pm
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.
Project activity
David convenes the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network.
He spent three months as a visiting scholar at the University of New South Wales in 2017, courtesy of a Leverhulme Fellowship.
In 2016 David was an expert advisor on 'Deep Time,' the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival opening evet, seen live by over 25,000 people.
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Refugee Imaginaries : Research Across the Humanities
(Accepted/In press) -
Anthropocene Poetics : Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction
Book/Report › Book (Published) -
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) -
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)