Sharae Deckard

Dr. Sharae Deckard is Associate Professor in World Literature at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin (UCD). She is a leading scholar in the fields of world literature, postcolonial ecocriticism, world-systems theory, and speculative fiction. She serves as Director of the UCD Environmental Humanities research strand and is a member of the Irish Humanities Alliance's Environmental Humanities Steering Group. Her editorial roles include co-editing Palgrave's New Comparisons in World Literature series and serving on the editorial board of Liverpool Studies in Literature and the Environment.

Her research interests include:

• Postcolonial literature and environmental criticism
• World-systems and world-ecology approaches to literature
• Neoliberalism and cultural production
• Genre fiction, including ecogothic, ecohorror, cli-fi, and weird fiction
• Social reproduction feminism and gendered labor
• Peripheral modernism and critical irrealism

Her recent publications reveal a strong focus on the intersections of capitalism, ecology, and cultural form, particularly in the Global South. Themes such as hydro-dependency, fossil capital, food and energy systems, and the socio-ecology of gendered labor recur across her work. Her 2024 article on 'women’s work' in world-literature and the co-authored book Tracking Capital exemplify her current trajectory in integrating Marxist, feminist, and ecological frameworks for literary analysis.

Her scientific recognition includes the BACLS Edited Collection Prize for World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent. She has secured multiple research grants, including on food, energy, and climate representations, and is currently co-investigator on the 'Cultural Imaginaries of Just Transition' project.

She advises and mentors students, though specific names are not listed. Her teaching portfolio is extensive, covering courses such as Reading World Literature, Global Science Fiction, Climate and Environment in Global Literature, and World-Systems/World-Literature. She has coordinated these modules for several years, demonstrating sustained pedagogical leadership.

She is an active member of professional networks, including the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment (UK-Ireland) and the Postcolonial Studies Association (UK). She engages in public scholarship through radio and television appearances and has organized public events, such as an interview with author Mohsin Hamid.