I work in an area called the Environmental Humanities. I have a particular interest in environmental politics and culture in Palestine/Israel. My first book, Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature (EUP 2020), was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment UK and Ireland Best Academic Book Prize 2021. I am now writing my second book, Water Crisis and World Literature. My new book looks at what contemporary literature from a number of different countries can tell us about past, present and future ways of living with water in an age of crisis. I'm also interested in the politics of food and in human relationships with animals.
Other topics I have written about include: the politics of waste in contemporary Palestinian literature; tree-planting in Israeli literature and culture; women IDF soldiers in popular culture; water justice in contemporary Canadian poetry; far-right environmental politics; Tiger King and the history of zoos and nature documentary. I also write from time-to-time on feminist theory and politics.
I co-edit the journal Environmental Humanities and co-convene the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network.
Experience
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–presentChancellor's Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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2020–2023Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
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2019–2020Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick
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2016–2019Teaching Fellow in Contemporary and Postcolonial Literature, University of Birmingham
Education
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2016University of York, PhD English Literature
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2010University of York, MA Postcolonial Studies
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2009University of Nottingham, BA Philosophy and English
Publications
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2020Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature,
Professional Memberships
- Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
- British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies
- Edinburgh, UK
- Website
- @hannahkateboast
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
