Författare: Satterday Shaw

Pippa Marland returned to academia in 2011 after a career in music. She completed a funded Ph D in ecocriticism at the University of Worcester, looking at the concept of ‘islandness’ in literary nonfiction. The result, Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British–Irish Archipelago, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2022. She has also co-edited a collection for Routledge entitled Walking, Landscape and Environment and is the co-author of Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020: Land Lines (Cambridge University Press, 2022). As a creative writer, she is the co-editor of, and a contributor to, Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the Twenty-first Century (Hodder and Stoughton, 2021). Pippa was recently a Leverhulme Early Career fellow in the Department of English at Bristol University, exploring the representation of farming in British nature writing. She continues to lecture in the Department of English at Bristol University.