Writing and Editing Samples
Please find a selection of writing and editing samples from my most recent academic work.
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Special Issue - Languages of the Future - Think Pieces - November 2025
I edited a special issue of the journal 'Think Pieces', entitled 'Languages of the Future'.
I selected articles for publication, worked closely with authors in their development, edited and proofread articles, and I wrote the editorial and co-wrote the conference proceedings.
The articles collected in this special edition reflect a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, and positionalities, each taking up the challenge of thinking of language as both a medium and a maker of futurity. Articles span from an examination of geopolitical memory to cellular ecologies; from architectural speculation to machine-made verse; from language education to future-oriented librarianship. These pieces do not seek to define Languages of the Future but instead open new interpretive paths – through theory, critique, practice, and imagination.
Digressions in Deep Time - Book Chapter - June 2024
“Curlew or Curfew. You Choose”: Nature, Time, and Politics in Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet
Book Chapter in 'Digressions in Deep Time' (Ed. 2024)
In this chapter, I explore the innovative ways in which contemporary British author Ali Smith engages with notions of deep time, ecological temporality, and socio-political crisis through her Seasonal Quartet and Companion Piece. Framed within the Anthropocene, my analysis argues that Smith’s unique adoption of serialist aesthetics—mirroring Victorian publication rhythms—offers a radical narrative strategy for representing both natural and human cycles of regression and renewal. Drawing on intertextual, historical, and formalist analysis, the chapter positions Smith's work as emblematic of “thick time”—a literary temporality that compresses multiple historical and ecological rhythms into a single, ambient experience. Through this lens, Smith’s accelerated publication timeline and cyclical thematics become both a reflection of and response to the compressed temporalities of the Anthropocene.
This chapter appears in 'Digressions in Deep Time', the first interdisciplinary anthology to address literary and artistic engagements with deep time across genres. The volume includes contributions from leading scholars and authors such as Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee, Richard Irvine, Benjamin Morgan, and Andrew Tate, and highlights the growing role of narrative and the arts in developing planetary time-consciousness