Mike Niblett

Mike Niblett is a Professor in modern world literature at the University of Warwick, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. His research bridges Caribbean literature, world-literature frameworks, and world-ecology paradigms.

Research interests include:

• Caribbean literature and its ecological imaginaries
• World-ecology and environmental history
• Global proletarian writing
• Critical theory and materialist approaches
• Postcolonial environmental humanities
• Commodity frontiers in literary contexts

His Leverhulme-funded project on World Literature and Commodity Frontiers analyzes literary responses to ecological transformations linked to sugar, cacao, coal, and tin production. Key publications include monographs on Caribbean novels and co-edited collections exploring transcultural ecologies.

Scientific contributions and awards:

• Leverhulme-funded research grant
• Editorial leadership in Caribbean studies
• Foundational work in ecocritical postcolonial theory

Teaching and supervision focus on postcolonial theory, world-literature systems, and environmental criticism, with doctoral projects welcomed in Caribbean studies, global working-class fiction, and world-ecology intersections.