Dr Louise Squire
PhD, FHEA, AMBDA, ADSHEQA421, PGCtHE, PGCPSE (Open).
Conference Organising
“Ecological Encounters: Agency, Identity, Interactions.” Co-organiser with Adeline Johns-Putra and Gregory Tate. ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference, University of Surrey, August, 2013.
“Literature and Sustainability.” Co-organiser with Matthew Jarvis. University of Aberystwyth ASLE UKI one-day symposium, University of Wales TSD, March 2013.
Invited Talks and Activities
Discussion leader for #Bookhour, Chang Rae Lee On Such a Full Sea, U.S. Studies Online, the Online Journal for the British Association for American Studies (April 5, 2016).
“Environment, apocalypse and the politics of death-facing in contemporary fiction” Interdisciplinary workshop: The Ethics and Politics of Apocalyptic Imaginaries. Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Warwick (November 27 2015).
“Death’s Role at a Time of Environmental Crisis” Seminar Series, Department of Philosophy Manchester Metropolitan University (November 27 2014).
Conference Presentations
"Storytelling For Learning Leaps: Narrative Imagery as Threshold Concept". PASSHE Conference, Aston University. 14th June, 2024.
"Death-facing Ecology in Contemporary Fiction". The 14th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal. University of Bath, 4-7 September 2019.
“Losing the Ground Beneath Our Feet: The Politics of Rising Waters in 21st century literature”. Bloomsbury C21 Conference 2016: Writing and Insecurity. University of Brighton, 31 March-1 April 2016.
“The Speculative Real in Contemporary Fiction and Theory: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and the Limits of Knowing”. ASLE-UKI biennial conference: Green Knowledge. Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, 2-4 September 2015.
“Circles Un(g)rounded: Sustainability and Necessity in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi” ASLE biennial conference. Notes from Underground: the depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice. University of Idaho, June 23-27, 2015.
“Death Equals Life: Time, Space and Change in Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam Trilogy and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide” ALECC Biennial Conference. Culture, Justice and Environment, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, August 7-10, 2014.
“Reframing Reality: New Stories of Death in Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam Trilogy”. EASLCE Biennial Conference. Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, Ecologies of Meaning, University of Tartu, Estonia, April 29-May 3, 2014.
“The World Reconfigured: New Stories of Death in Contemporary Environmental Crisis Fiction. The Bloomsbury C21 Conference 2014, University of Brighton, 10-11 April 2014.
“(Re)constructing Ecological Agency in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide”. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland. Ecological Encounters: Agency, Identity, Interactions, University of Surrey, August 29-31, 2013.
“The Post-Mortal Posthuman: Life, Death and Paradox in an Environmental Crisis world Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits. University of Kansas, Lawrence, May 28-June 1, 2013.
“The Post-Mortal Posthuman: Life, Death and Paradox in an Environmental Crisis world”. Critical Ecologies: Theory, Culture and the Environment Conference, Cardiff University, May 2013.
“What intervention? Posthumanism in Winterson’s repeating worlds” Biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Composting Culture: Literature, Nature, Popular Culture, Science. University of Worcester, 5– 9 September, 2012.
“A Discourse of Death and Environmental Crisis in Twenty-First Century Fiction”. What Happens Now? 21st Century Writing in English, 2nd International Conference. University of Lincoln, 16-18, July, 2012.
“Atwood’s Discourse of Environmental Crisis”. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland. Postgraduate Conference: Emergent Critical Environments: Where Next for Ecology and the Humanities? Queen Mary University, London, 9-10th September, 2011.
“The Animals are Breaking Out”. Postgraduate Symposium: Unexpected Agents. University of Birmingham. June, 2011.
