The GeoHumanities

the GeoHumanities

I teach at Royal Holloway University’s Geography department, within the long tradition of cultural geography and the geohumanities. I am situated within the Centre for the GeoHumanities: a major interdisciplinary initiative cultivating links between geographers, arts and humanities practitioners, and the creative, cultural and heritage sectors.

My courses include the advanced level, third year undergraduate module Atmospheres: Nature, Culture, Politics, which traces the geographies of air and atmosphere through themes of breath; gases; clouds, verticality; communication; affect; weather and the elements. It is taught with a mixture of lecture-based and practice-based workshops, and is assessed through essay writing and a 'practice portfolio'.

Cultural Geographies and the Modern World: a second year undergraduate course co-taught with colleagues in social, cultural and historical geography. My lectures focus in particular on 'material geographies' and include a range of contemporary, creative and aesthetic approaches to matter. My students design and present their own protest objects.

I have taught many courses in the field, from art and architecture courses in Cappadocia, Turkey to activist and cultural geographies courses in New York City and Nicosia, Cyprus. My masters level teaching includes seminars on sonic and creative geographies; the geohumanities and transfeminist futures. I currently supervise five PhD students working on creative and geographical approaches to sensing environmental change at various scales.