Cardiff University

Alumnus, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory

Other Affiliations: University of Exeter, Department of English

Thesis Title: Violent Signs: Ecocriticism and the Symptom

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Having recently completed my Ph.D at Cardiff University, I am currently developing aspects of my work towards a post-doctoral project. Fully funded by the AHRC between 2007-2009, my thesis argued for the construction of an 'eco-clinic', a libidinal-materialist approach to issues of environment and ecology, specifically as these might be understood after post-Lacanian psychoanalytic and political theories. Engaging the work of Jameson, Žižek, and Deleuze-Guattari, I argued for a re-commitment to issues of neurosis and pathology for eco-critical thinking, particularly as these might relate to issues of aesthetics, ideology, and noology / noopolitics.

Whilst working on the Ph.D, I was engaged in a range of other academic duties. In 2006-2007, I served as a P/T Lecturer on the BA in Popular Music Production at Southampton Solent University, working specifically on the Contexts & Issues module, and during which time I taught aspects of Frankfurt School critical theory, principally the work of Theodor Adorno.

In August 2008, I served as co-convener of the First International Deleuze Studies Conference at Cardiff University, and later as assistant editor to Dhruv Jain on the Deleuze Studies special issue, 'Deleuze and Marx' (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

More recently I have prepared a didactic module entitled 'Rhythms and Milieus: Deleuze and Guattari's Concept of the Refrain' for the National Training Course "InNova Musica" of the Italian ANSAS (National Agency for the Development of Scholastic Autonomy). I have also recently begun editing a volume with Aidan Tynan on the relationship between Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalytic project and literature.

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