Nick Lawrence

Nick Lawrence is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, affiliated with the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. His research focuses on environmental approaches to world-literary studies, global modernism, Marxism, and Frankfurt School critical theory, with a particular emphasis on the Anthropocene, degrowth, and postcapitalist futures. He co-leads the university's Sustainability Spotlight Initiative and convenes the MA in Environmental Humanities.

• Research Interests: Theorising world literature through capitalist history, global modernism in uneven development, aesthetics of ecology, eco-Marxism, and postcapitalist cultural imaginaries.
• Teaching: Contributes to undergraduate modules like Literature, Environment, Ecology and postgraduate modules such as Critical Environments.
• Collaborations: Active member of the Warwick Research Collective, advocating for nonhierarchical collaborative knowledge production.

Publications explore themes like literary responses to neoliberal crisis, anticolonial ecologies, and the Frankfurt School’s ecological roots. Notable works include the Combined and Uneven Development book and contributions to journals such as Modern Language Quarterly. Supervisions span PhD topics on environmental uncanny, poetics of uneven development, and urban extraction.