DrTreasa De Loughry

I am a Lecturer/ Assistant Professor in World Literature in the School of English, Drama and Film; a co-lead of the Climate Research Strand at UCD's Earth Institute; and a co-lead of the Environmental Humanities Research Strand in UCD's College of Arts and Humanities.

My main research and teaching interests are the study of the environmental humanities in contemporary world and postcolonial literature, especially around pollution/ waste, climate change and energy. I use eco-materialist and environmental justice frameworks, and focus on realist and irrealist novels and short stories in texts predominantly from global peripheries. Major publications include The Global Novel and Capitalism-in-Crisis: Contemporary Literary Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and Environment with Sharae Deckard, Kerstin Oloff and Claire Westall (2026).

I am also very interested in interdisciplinary research, and in communicating the value of humanities approaches to tackling major environmental challenges to colleagues and students in other disciplines. I occasionally escape the library to conduct community engaged research on energy transitions and climate action!

Before joining UCD I worked as a Lecturer in Global and World Literatures at the University of Exeter in the UK, and as an Assistant Lecturer in World Literature in Maynooth University, Ireland. I was also a Fulbright-National University of Ireland PhD fellow at the University of California in Los Angeles.

You can find my publications here, and a short CV here.