University of Dundee

Formal Innovation in Contemporary Radical Landscape Poetry as the Rearticulation of Romantic Attitudes towards the Visual & the Environment

Academic History:

2011-12 MSc by Research English Literature: Romanticism

2006-2010 MA (Hons) English Literature

Supervisors:

Andrew Roberts, Professor of Modern Literature, the University of Dundee

Murdo MacDonald, Professor in the History of Scottish Art, the University of Dundee & DJCAD

Research Interests:

Twentieth & twenty-first century landscape poetry; formally innovative poetry; Romantic poetry; intermediality & visual culture; word & image studies; ecocriticism & environmental art; phenomenology & theories of perception; mimesis & theories of representation.

Previous Research Projects:

Reading Frankenstein as a critique of gendered educational practices in the late eighteenth & early nineteenth centuries

Scholarships/ Awards/ Publications:

Carnegie-Cameron Postgraduate Bursary

AHRC PhD Studentship

Publications:

Articles

'The "specific evidentness" of contemporary radical landscape poetry: innovative form & spatial presence in The Ground Aslant', special issue of English, the journal of the English Association, published by Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

'Walking Women: Embodied Perception in Romantic & Contemporary Radical Landscape Poetry', The Journal of British & Irish Innovative Poetry (forthcoming).

Book Chapters

'Affinities with innovative & visual poetry in the work of Geoffrey Hill', for publication in a volume on the poetics of Geoffrey Hill, edited by Andrew Michael Roberts, Shearsman (forthcoming).

'Walking & Visual Perception in Romantic & Modernist Literature', co-written with Andrew Michael Roberts, for publication in The History of Distributed Cognition, Edinburgh University Press (currently under peer review).

Edited Journals

Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, special issue on 'Traversing the Field' conference proceedings, co-edited with Alice Tarbuck (forthcoming).

Conferences Organised:

Traversing the Field: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Walking & Thinking in Scottish Landscapes, University of Dundee, 30 April 2016. Funding secured from the Centre for Scotland's Land Futures, the Centre for Scottish Culture & the Centre for Poetic Innovation.

Doctoral Internship:

'What is a civilised nation?': How Arts & Humanities research informs debate Scotland's Futures Forum, Scottish Parliament, Jan - Jun 2017

Contact Details:

Address: The University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN

Tel No: 07769 200540

Email: e.widger@dundee.ac.uk

First published: 1 October 2014