Axel Goodbody

Axel Goodbody is Emeritus Professor of German and European Culture at the University of Bath, and Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University’s Centre for Environmental Humanities.

His main fields of research are literary representations of nature and environment, and ecocritical theory. Current projects include editing (with Adeline Johns-Putra) Cli-Fi: A Reader (Peter Lang, forthcoming 2018) and (with Bradon Smith) Stories of Energy: Narratives for the Anthropocene (Resilience 6:1, October 2018), and co-authoring (with Greg Garrard, George Handley and Stephanie Posthumus) Cultures of ‘Denial’: An Ecocritical Analysis of Climate Scepticism in the UK, Germany, the USA and France (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). He is Associate Editor of the journal Ecozon@ and co-editor of the Brill/ Rodopi book series ‘Nature, Culture and Literature’.