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Catherine M. Lord publishes in the areas of ecocriticism, film and literature, planetary studies, critical and gender theory; and literary studies. She has a supplementary project in  practice-based research, which involves her own creative writing and performance work. Her present academic project focuses on the psychical effects of global warming. She lectures in ecocriticism, film and literature, media ecology and transmedial studies. In addition, she has project devoted to the oeuvre of select English speaking actresses; here, the aim is to explore the threshold between text and performance.

Voyage

Stories think. Lectures erupt into moments of poetry and performance. From the archaeology of knowledge emerge the cavedwellers, posthuman, all gathered around the camp fire.

Journey of Themes

I started out in literary studies with The Intimacy of Influence, and have published in the areas of psychoanalysis, feminism and Virginia Woolf studies, an experience which informs my current  projects in ecology, ecocriticism and practice-based research. My adventure in ecology has inevitably brought me to postcolonial studies, and I am now exploring the interdisciplinary space between ecology and postcolonial studies.  

Edited Books and Book Chapters

Essays in Migratory Aesthetics: Cultural Practices between Migration and Art-Making, ed. Sam Durrant and Catherine M. Lord. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.

Book Chapter (Theoretical fiction)

"Scholars, Dreams and Memory Tapes" in Mind the Screen: Media Concepts according to Thomas Elsaesser, ed. Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters and Wanda Strauven, Amsterdam: AUP, 2008.   

Book Chapter (Essay as Aesthetics)

"Set Adrift in Style." 

Book Chapter (Orphic Journeys into Film Translation)