Dr Wendy Wheeler

Qualifications

BA Hons English (Polytechnic of North London)
MA English Literature (University of Sussex)
DPhil From the Sublime to the Domestic: Postmodernism and the Novels of Graham Swift and Peter Ackroyd. (University of Sussex)

Role

Reader in English
Lecturer in MA Literature, Representation & Modernity
Budget Holder of Communications, Cultural & Media Studies Research Committee
Member of Department of Humanities, Arts and Languages Research Committee

Wendy’s research interests are in contemporary fiction, in literary and cultural theory, and in the ways in which these can inform aesthetic, social and political thought. She is also interested in potential meetings between the arts and sciences. In particular, she is interested in evolutionary systems theory (‘complexity’), ecocriticism, ecophenomenology, and biosemiotics, as providing new ways of thinking about human knowing and creativity in terms both of philosophical theory and also creative praxis. She is interested in all aspects and periods of literary writing and its reception, but has a particular interest in the literatures of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.

Wendy is on the Editorial Board of New Formations, and is joint journal Editor. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-UK), and on the Advisory Board of its journal Green Letters.

She is on the Advisory Board of Soundings: a journal of politics and culture. She is a member of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA-USA), and of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies. She is also (2006-2009) London Research Associate for Arts and Sustainability Research Group - a three-year project within the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University Global Cities Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

She has delivered more than 60 papers at conferences in the UK, Europe, and the USA, and has published two monographs and one edited collection, as well as many essays in journals and edited collections. She is currently working on two further monographs.