Literary Futures Guest Lecture Series: “Apocalypse Now and Then, Here and There: Comparative Cultural Histories of Climate” (Feb 7)

Please join us for the inaugural guest lecture as part of the University of Ottawa English Department’s Literary Futures Guest Lecture Series.

Professor Adeline Johns-Putra (Queen’s University) will be presenting her ongoing research with a lecture entitled “Apocalypse Now and Then, Here and There: Comparative Cultural Histories of Climate.”
Johns-Putra is an internationally renowned literary scholar, with a particular interest in the relationship between literature and climate. She is author of several academic monographs, including Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and The History of the Epic (Palgrave, 2006), as well as numerous edited collections, including the Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (2022), Climate and Literature (2019), Cli-Fi: A Companion (2018), Literature and Sustainability (2017), and Process: Landscape and Text (2010). She is former president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment UKI (2011-2015), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts UK, and Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. 
Students, staff, and interested parties from all departments are welcome to attend. 

For any questions, please contact Dr. Emelia Quinn at equinn@uottawa.ca