Dr Isabel Galleymore

• BA (Hons) English Literature, University of Reading
• MLitt Creative Writing, University of St Andrews
• PhD English Literature, “Trope on Trope: Rethinking Nature Writing Pedagogy through Metaphor”

Previous to my post at the University of Birmingham, I have taught English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter and the University of Reading. I was awarded a PGCert in Higher Education with Distinction in 2019. 

I would be interested in proposals regarding ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice. I am currently supervising doctoral projects on interspecies collaboration in poetry and 'How the Environment ‘Signs’ the Climate Crisis: A Poetic Interpretation through the Lens of BSL'.

Find out more - our PhD Creative Writing  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

I am the author of two award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry collections Significant Other (Carcanet) and Baby Schema (Carcanet). My poetry and criticism have featured widely in magazines such as The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. My poetry pamphlet, Cyanic Pollens, was published in 2020 and is an account of time as poet-in-residence at the Tambopata Research Centre in the Amazon rainforest in 2016. My academic monograph, Teaching Environmental Writing: Ecocritical Pedagogy and Poetics, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2020. I held the position of Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2022-23. In 2023-24, I was awarded an AHRC Research Development and Engagement Fellowship for 'Cuteness in Contemporary Environmental Culture: Developing Ecopoetic Practice' - a project which brought together six partners including the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust, the Poetry Society and the Oxford University Natural History Museum.