John Kinsella

John Kinsella serves as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at The University of Western Australia, with research deeply rooted in poetics, environmental activism, and political resistance through literary expression. His work prominently features Western Australian landscapes and intertextual reinterpretations of classical texts.

His primary research domains include:

• Antifascist poetics and legibility in literature
• Environmental and eco-critical poetry
• Intertextual dramatisation (notably Milton's Samson Agonistes)
• Political resistance through poetic form
• Western Australian cultural landscapes

Recent publications demonstrate a cohesive trajectory merging ecological concerns with political activism, particularly through experimental poetic structures. His 2022 monograph Legibility: An Antifascist Poetics establishes theoretical frameworks connecting poetic coherence to resistance movements, while performance works like Samson Agonistes (2021) recontextualize classical narratives within contemporary political struggles.

Professor Kinsella maintains an extensive research profile with 397 outputs including books, articles, and performances, supervised at least one student, and his work contributes to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. His research fingerprint shows dominant engagement with Poetics (100%), Poem (93%), and Western Australia (66%), with significant connections to dramatisation, legibility, and pastoral themes.