education
2018-2021 | PhD in English Literature, University of Surrey
2013-2015 | MA in English Literature (Distinction), Stockholm University
2008-2012 | BA in Anglophone and Lusophone Languages and Literatures, with emphasis on Translation Studies (First-class Honours), Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
employment
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND RESEARCH POSITIONS
2026-present | Visiting Research Fellow, Suffering and Meliorism in Literature and the Philosophy of Literature, part of the Centre of Excellence in Meliorist Philosophy of Suffering (MePhiS), University of Tampere
2024-2025 | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Humanities (Wetland Times Project), Lancaster University
2022-2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London
2019-2020 | Lecturer (fixed-term), University of Surrey
2021 | Research Associate, University of Surrey
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP, IMPACT & ENGAGEMENT
2025-present | Impact & Engagement Officer, Migrant Futures Institute, Goldsmiths, Univerity of London
2022 | Course Leader, Poetry School (London)
2021 | Project Researcher, ONCA (Brighton)
EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2024-present | Editorial Reviewer, Journal of Modern Literature
2024-present | Editorial Reviewer, Routledge Environmental Humanities series
2024-present | Peer Reviewer, Open Library of the Humanities
(Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture)
ADVISORY ROLES
2022-2023 | Strategic Advisor, MA in Ecological Imaginaries, Schumacher College
Professional affiliations
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Member of the Modern Language Association, Member of the British Association for Modernist Studies, Member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), UK and Ireland, Member of the European Conservation Humanities Network, Member of the Environmental Humanities Network, and Member of the European Academy of Religion.
conferences and presentations
INVITED TALKS AND ROUNDTABLES
Invited participant, Transnational Responsibility for Blue-Green Resilience, interdisciplinary roundtable marking the centenary of Sir David Attenborough, University of Oxford, 8 May 2026.
Invited contributor, Philology Garden: A Socio-Ecological Awareness Retreat, Salzburg, September 2025.
Invited speaker, “Wetland Times: Flows and Ruptures Across Two Tidal Landscapes”, Wetlands Across Boundaries: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on History, Ecology, and Future Challenges, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, August 2025.
Invited speaker, “Buddhist Temporalities and Mental Health: Dōgen’s Being-Time as a Contemplative Path in the Anthropocene”, Vita Contemplativa: The Return of Contemplation, University of Lisbon, May 2025.
Invited speaker, “O Zen da Ecopoética: Imaginações Cosmológicas na Poesia Modernista Americana”, Grupo de Estudos Ecocríticos (UFPR & UTFPR), June 2024.
Invited speaker, “The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry”, Plural Modernities Congress, Lisbon, June 2024.
Invited speaker, “Documenting Loss and Preserving Memory through Digital Archives”, Archives and the Environment: An Experimentation Workshop, National Archives, London, May 2023.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS
“The Ineffable Word: Apophatic Poetics in the Anthropocene”, Between Mystical Thinking and Practical Experience, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, November 2024.
Work-in-Progress Seminar: Wetland Times, with Nicola Thomas, Blake Ewing, and Nsah Mala, MESH Green Shoots, University of Cologne, October 2024.
“Marianne Moore’s Taoist Reverie: Sea Creatures and Assemblage Poetics”, EASLCE Biennial Congress: Sea More Blue, Perpignan, June 2024.
“The Zen-Inflected Apophatic Ecopoetics of William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings”, Uses of Modernism Conference, Ghent University, September 2023.
“Zen Transitions in Cummings’ Ecopoetic Imagination”, ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference: Transitions, University of Liverpool, September 2023.
“The Tao of the Non-Human: Ineffability, Materiality, and Ecosemiotics in Marianne Moore’s Assemblage Poetics”, ECHIC Conference, University of Ferrara, May 2023.
“Languages of the Ineffable: Apophatic Poetics in a Time of Environmental Crisis”, Exploring Environmental Humanities, Senate House Library, London, May 2023.
“The Material and the Transcendental in Marianne Moore’s Posthumanist Poetics”, Posthuman Bodies & Embodied Posthumanisms, University of Warwick, October 2022.
“The Material and the Spiritual in Williams’s Zen-Inflected Ecopoetics”, William Carlos Williams Society Biennial Conference, Chicago, June 2022.
“Zen and the Art of Imagined Matter”, International Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia (ISLE-EA), Kobe, Japan, 2021.
“Ecocriticism in the Bardo: A Zen Buddhist Reading of Timothy Morton’s Ecological Thought”, ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference, Plymouth, 2019.
ORGANISATION, CHAIRING, AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
Co-organiser, “The Silent Revolution: Literary and Religious Conversations on What Can(not) Be Said”, panel at the European Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Palermo, May 2024.
Decentring the Poetic Canon through Religion and Ecology, official book launch of The Zen of Ecopoetics, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies & Senate House Library, London, March 2024.
Panel chair, “Modernism and Environment”, ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference: Epochs, Ages, and Cycles, Northumbria University, September 2022.
Co-chair, “In Defence of the Amazon and Its Peoples: A Tribute to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira”, Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), School of Advanced Study, University of London, November 2022.
The Environment and the Sacred in Modern American Poetry, workshop, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies & Senate House Library, October 2022.
Navigating Copyright Permissions for Prose and Poetry in Academic Publications, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies Research Training Programme, School of Advanced Study, University of London, November 2022.
“The Environmental Humanities Research Hub: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Knowledge Exchange”, Knowledge Diplomacy Conference, University of London in Paris, July 2023.
Enaiê Mairê Azambuja 