Jonathan Skinner

Dr. Jonathan Skinner is a Reader (equivalent to Associate Professor) in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick's Faculty of Arts, where he researches and teaches ecocriticism, contemporary poetry, and creative writing. He founded and edits the journal ecopoetics, exploring intersections between writing and ecology.

His research examines:

• Ecopoetic theory and environmental literature
• Intersections of sound studies and ethnopoetics
• North American avant-garde poetry (Olson, Kyger, Eigner)
• Translation and transnational poetics
• Third Landscape theory and urban wildness

He leads a research network facilitating cross-cultural poetry exchanges along avian migration routes.

Skinner's publications predominantly explore ecocritical frameworks through poetry analysis, with recent work examining climate change poetics, multispecies communication, and Anthropocene aesthetics. His scholarship connects literary studies with environmental science, acoustics, and landscape theory.

He currently supervises five PhD students researching multispecies poetics and environmental literature through AHRC-funded projects, and has successfully supervised two doctoral candidates studying deindustrialization and extractive urbanism. Previously supervised MA theses span modernist poetry, ecocriticism, and creative writing.