Dr Mandy Bloomfield

I am an Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature. I teach across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, drawing on my research expertise in poetry, critical theory and literary environmental studies. I'm also Programme Leader for MA English Literature and MA Environmental Humanities. 

Association for Studies in Literature and Environment, UK & Ireland (Committee Member)

I am an Editorial Board Member for the Environmental Cultures series, Bloomsbury Academic, and Editorial Board Member for the journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. I also peer review a number of journals, including Green Letters, English, Textual Practice, Humanities, College Literature and The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. 

Undergraduate Teaching

I predominantly teach twentieth and twenty-first century literature and critical theory. During my time at Plymouth, I have designed and led modules linked to my research interests, including Literatures of Environmental Crisis. This module explores how literature has responded to the science and the cultural implications of environmental change, from the1960s to the present. We read a wide range of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, including work by Gary Snyder, Jeanette Winterson, Indra Sinha and Juliana Spahr. Another of my modules, World Literature, examines a range of poetry and fiction from around the world, in relation to contexts of colonialism and decolonisation, migration, increasing global interactions and the dominance of English as a world language. Authors studied on this module include Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite and Amitav Ghosh. 

I also very much enjoy teaching core modules on Modernism and Critical theory.

Postgraduate Teaching & Supervision

I lead the MA English Literature, subject to approval). I teach the Research Methods module on this programme and a module on Ocean Modernity. I also lead the MA Environmental Humanities programme. 

I have supervised (or am currently supervising) PhD projects on the following topics:

• poetry, 'radical landscape' and walking
  
• post-apocalyptic and eco-dystopic fiction
• women's Nepali poetry
• ecopoetics 

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in pursuing research in modern & contemporary literature, including areas such as poetics, ecocriticism, postcolonial writing, American literature, the legacies of modernism and literatures of the sea.