Stephen E. Hunt | University of the West of England (original) (raw)

My primary research interest is within the environmental humanities. This includes 'Green Romanticism' – taking an ecocritical approach to the Romantic era and its continuing legacy. Within this field, particular interests include the Kurdish ecology movement, human well-being and the natural environment, the great apes, women writers on seaweed and garden cities. I am on the Executive Committee of the Angela Carter Society and a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE).

Publications include:

The Revolutionary Urbanism of Street Farm: Eco-Anarchism, Architecture and Alternative Technology in the 1970s (Bristol: Tangent Books, 2014).

'Power to the People: Renewable Energy in Brenda Vale’s Albion' in Paula Farca (ed.) Energy in Literature (Oxford: Trueheart, [forthcoming July 2015]). See: http://www.trueheartpress.co.uk/content/coming-soon-energy-literature

'The Echoing Greens: The Neo-Romanticism of Earth First! and Reclaim The Streets in the U.K.', Capitalism Nature Socialism, 24 (2), May 2013, 83-101.

'Francis Kilvert and Birds' Marsh', The Journal of the Kilvert Society Vol. 34 (March 2012), 135-138.

Green Romanticism: The Natural World and Human Well-Being, 1775-1900 (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2011).

Book Review ‘Alexandra Harris, Romantic Moderns', Green Letters Vol. 15 (Autumn 2011), 108-110.

Birds' Marsh: The Unfinished Story (Salisbury: Hobnob Press / Chippenham Museum, 2010).

Anarchism in Bristol and the West Country to 1950, no. 14 in Radical Pamphleteer series (Bristol: Bristol Radical History Group, 2010).

‘The Emergence of Psychoecology: The New Nature Writings of Roger Deakin, Mark Cocker, Robert Macfarlane and Richard Mabey’, Green Letters Vol. 10 (2009), 70-77.

Yesterday's To-Morrow: Bristol's Garden Suburbs, no. 8 in Radical Pamphleteer series (Bristol: Bristol Radical History Group, 2009).

‘Friends of our Captivity: Nature, Terror and Refugia in Romantic Women’s Literature’, 273-296 in Inside Out: Women Negotiating, Subverting, Appropriating Public and Private Space, ed. by Teresa Gómez Reus and Aranzazu Usandizaga (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008).

‘Yesterday’s To-Morrow’, The Land, 5 (Summer 2008), 57-58.

‘Yoked together: Anti-slavery and animal welfare’, The Vegan, Winter 2005, 24-25.

‘“Free, Bold, Joyous”’: The Love of Seaweed in Margaret Gatty and Other Mid-Victorian Writers’, Environment and History 11 (1), February 2005, 5-34.

‘Ilford Manor’ in Writing the Land: An Anthology in Aid of Friends of the Earth, ed. by Kevan Manwaring (Bath: Awen Press, 2003).

Book Review: Karen Jones, Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide in Environment and History 9 (3), August 2003, 362-364.

‘Wandering Lonely: Women’s Access to the English Romantic Countryside’ in Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism, ed. by John Tallmadge and Henry Harrington (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000), 51-63.

‘Percy Bysshe Shelley’, The Vegan 9 (1), Spring 1993, 16-17

I completed a PhD thesis entitled Persephone Unbound: The Natural Environment, Human Well-Being and Gender, 1775-1900, validated through the University of the West of England,in 2003. My supervisors at Bath Spa University were Richard Kerridge, Jeremy Hooker, William Hughes, Jeff Rodman and Robin Jarvis at the University of the West of England. Mr examiners were Tim Fulford, Terry Gifford and Greg Garrard.

I was a p-t lecturer for modules on 'European Thought and Culture' and 'Film Studies' at Bath Spa University 1994-2000.

I completed a MA thesis entitled 'Green Earth's Rural Chronicles: John Clare as Naturalist and Environmentalist' at the University of York (1991), under the supervision of Hugh Haughton.

I am a qualified Librarian, with a Diploma in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2006). I am Library Academic Support Coordinator at UWE Bristol, based within the Faculty of Business and Law. I have taught on the Information Contexts module of the MSc Information and Library Management course at UWE.

I have a CELTA qualification from the University of Bristol, awarded in 2017.

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