- Professor of Literature and Environment, University of Hull
Stewart Mottram is Professor of Literature and Environment and Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre for Water Cultures at the University of Hull. His research focuses on the literature of living with flood risk, with a particular focus on the North Sea.
He currently leads the AHRC project, ‘From Noah to Now: A cultural history of flooding in English coastal and estuary communities’ (AH/Y004779/1). ‘Noah to Now’ explores how the centuries-long experience of living with the risk of flooding along England's East Coast has helped shape English literature, from Chaucer to contemporary climate fiction today.
Experience
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2022–presentReader in English, University of Hull
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2019–2022Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull
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2010–2019Lecturer in English, University of Hull
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2008–2010Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Aberystwyth University
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2006–2008Research Lecturer, Aberystwyth University
Education
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2005University of Leeds, PhD English
Publications
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2021'A Most Excellent Medicine': Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell, The Seventeenth Century
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2019Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell, Oxford University Press
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2018The religious geography of Marvell’s An Horatian Ode: Popery, Presbytery, and PartiColoured Picts, The Seventeenth Century
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2018'With guiltles blood oft stained': Spenser’s Ruines of Time and the saints of Saint Albans , Spenser Studies
Grants and Contracts
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2021On the Edge: A co-created exploration of young people’s eco-anxiety in the face of climate uncertainty
- Role:
- Co-Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Natural Environment Research Council
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2020Risky Cities: Living with Water in an Uncertain Future Climate
- Role:
- Co-Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
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2019By the Rising tide of Humber: Flooding Andrew Marvell’s Hull in VR
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (XR Stories)
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2014Representing Ruins in English Renaissance Literature
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
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2008Pastoral: Writing Reformation in England and Wales.
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Leverhulme Trust
Professional Memberships
- Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. (Royal Society of Arts)
Contact Stewart for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Hull, UK
- Website
- BlueSky: @stewartjmottram.bsky.social
- LinkedIn: stewart-mottram-663718334
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