DrTreasa De Loughry

My teaching is exclusively in contemporary (post-1970s) postcolonial and world literary approaches to major environmental crises.

I am keen to develop interdisciplinary conversations on environmental challenges at UCD, especially in articulating the role of the arts and humanities in addressing major environmental problems like climate change which exceed technical solutions; and I am currently involved in several cross-School/ College teaching initiatives.

Recently convened modules include:

• ENG20800/ ENG32310 Global Eco-Literature 
• ENG32800 Wasted Worlds: Waste and World Literature 
• ENG32650 The Global Short Story 
• ENG42150 Energy, Modernity, Culture 
• CCI30050 Sustainability and the Cultural and Creative Industries (with Dr Tori Durrer) 

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In terms of postgraduate research students, I am open to discussing proposals on relevant subjects. Before contacting me make sure that I am the right supervisory fit for your project, and secondly, that you have researched the cost of living in Dublin (among the most expensive in Europe), and explored your funding options and the cost of PhD research fees at UCD. 

I am happy to consider working with candidates with interests in the following areas:

- contemporary global, world and/or postcolonial literatures (novels and/ or short stories) [essential]

- materialist ecocritical or postcolonial or world-literary methodologies [essential]
- world-systems, world-literature, world-ecology
- ecocriticism, toxicity, waste, discard
- energy humanities, petro-modernity, energy transition