Kyra Morris

Kyra Morris is a Research Fellow at Princeton University, affiliated with the Department of English and Environmental Studies Program. She specializes in environmental humanities, ecopoetics, and 20th/21st century anglophone literature. Her work bridges academic and public writing, emphasizing place-based research and climate storytelling.

• Education: BA in English (Yale University), MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature (University of Cambridge)

Her research focuses on landscapes of loss and recovery, particularly through post-1945 poetry. Her dissertation, Landscapes of Loss, Forms of Recovery, examines works by William Carlos Williams, Seamus Heaney, and Robert Macfarlane. She incorporates first-person interludes from site visits to connect literary forms with environmental ethics.

Publications include an article in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (2024) and a forthcoming piece on the New Jersey Meadowlands in The Atlantic. She co-founded the Ecotheories Colloquium, inviting scholars like Anna Tsing and Cary Wolfe to Princeton.

Teaching roles include positions at Princeton’s English Department, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, and institutions in India and the U.S. She is a member of Blue Lab, a climate storytelling initiative.