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Professor Fiona Becket serves as Professor of Contemporary Poetics and Head of School at the University of Leeds' School of English within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Her academic leadership and research focus on bridging literary scholarship with environmental and technological contexts.
Education:
- PhD in English Literature
- MA in English Literature
- BA in English Literature
- Diploma in Polish Language
Research Interests: Professor Becket specializes in Modernist and Contemporary Literature with deep expertise in Eco-poetics and Eco-criticism. Her work critically examines Post-war Poetry, particularly Avant-garde and Experimental movements, with original contributions to Concrete Poetry and Visual Poetry (including under-represented women experimentalists). She actively explores intersections of Literature and Environment, Green Cultural Critique, and Environmental Humanities, with specific focus on D. H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, and British/Irish contemporary poetry.
Supervision: She has mentored doctoral researchers on diverse topics including nature representations in Powys, green poetics of Silkin/Armitage, Jungian analysis in modernist poetry, and olfactory sensation studies. Former supervisees investigated object theorization across poetic eras, Yeats-Tagore comparative studies, Ted Hughes' eco-poetics, Joyce, Rushdie, Barnes, Orwell, and Carson. Current PhD candidates include Charlotte Makepeace and Jon Gilbert, with active supervision of MA dissertations and undergraduate Final Year Projects.
Research Initiatives: As a core member of the Environmental Humanities Research Group, she curates a visual/concrete poetry exhibition using Brotherton Library special collections while developing a book-length analysis of poetry-technology dynamics in the post-War/pre-computer era, centered on Ian Hamilton Finlay's 'extended poet' concept.
