Current PhD Student

Kate Nankervis

Thesis Title:

In “Pursuit of Shadows”: affective clouds in Romantic poetry and landscape painting

Supervisor:

Professor Jon Mee

Description:

My research focuses on clouds in Romantic poetry and landscape painting as a way into identifying the period’s new mode of ecological consciousness, which is implicitly linked to contemporary climatic changes. Using affect theory as a framework, I consider the affective experience of living through an age of environmental change and witnessing the alteration of a familiar place beyond recognition. Furthermore, I examine how Romantic-period writers and artists explored the shifting intersubjectivity between human and nonhuman subjects that emerged out of a reconception of climate as a dynamic global system.

Email: bmx@york.ac.uk