Neal Alexander

Neal Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature at Aberystwyth University's Department of English and Creative Writing. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Academic Integrity Officer for the university, he leads the 'Place and Belonging' research strand within his department. His scholarly identity bridges

• Literary Geography
• Welsh Writing in English
• Modernist Studies
• Climate Crisis Literature
• Irish Studies

Alexander's research explores how space, place, and landscape shape literary form, with particular focus on late modernism and contemporary writing. Recent work examines literary engagements with energy production systems, producing nuclear criticism studies and fossil economy poetry analysis. He has co-edited

• The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies
• Poetry & Geography
• Regional Modernisms

His editorial roles span

• Literary Geographies journal
• International Journal of Welsh Writing in English
• peer-review for Textual Practice, Comparative Literature

and examination duties for MA Contemporary Literature programs. Supervising four PhD candidates, Alexander maintains active involvement in mentoring doctoral research across literary geographies and experimental fiction domains.