DrEmily McAvan

I am a literary critic and theorist, whose work deals primarily with queer and trans ecologies and the intersection between literature, religion and the environment. I am the author of Pollution Theory: Reading Toxic Entanglement in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman: The Material Sacred (Bloomsbury, 2024), Jeanette Winterson and Religion (Bloomsbury 2020), The Postmodern Sacred (McFarland 2012) and numerous articles in journals such as Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Angelaki, Textual Practice, SubStance, Diacritics, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 

Drawing on materialisms old and new, I work on what I call the "speculative archive" - Gothic, fabulist modernisms, science fiction and fantasy fictions - as a means of understanding human and non-human agencies, bodies, climate, and uses of technologies, and the multiple, entangled crises in which we find ourselves.