- Kirkbride, J. (2022). Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach. Green Letters, 26(2), pp. 190–193. doi:10.1080/14688417.2022.2037865.
- Kirkbride, J. (2021). Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene. Green Letters, 25(4), pp. 441–444. doi:10.1080/14688417.2021.2012365.
- Kirkbride, J. (2021). Fragments from the history of loss: the nature industry and the postcolony. Green Letters, 25(1), pp. 99–101. doi:10.1080/14688417.2021.1888480.
- Kirkbride, J. (2020). The Burning Core: Using Heraclitus's Concept of an Arche of Fire to Examine Humanity's Connection with Nature in Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The Cormac McCarthy Journal, 18(2), pp. 100–112. doi:10.5325/cormmccaj.18.2.0100.
- Kirkbride, J. (2020). Cohesive Plurality. Logos, 31(2), pp. 52–56. doi:10.1163/18784712-03102005.
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About
Overview
Dr Jasmin Kirkbride is a Lecturer in Publishing at City, University of London, teaching on the BA in English and MAs in Publishing, International Publishing, and Creative Writing and Publishing.
Alongside teaching at City, she is currently a Humanities Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UEA). She completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in 2023 with no correction. Her thesis explored radical hope in dystopian climate fiction. Her peer-reviewed articles have been published in journals including The Cormac McCarthy Journal and LOGOS, and she is currently co-editing 'Epochs, Ages, and Cycles', a Special Edition of the ASLE-UKI Journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. She has presented at several conferences, including the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2022 and 2023, and UEA/EACWP CW50 Futures for Creative Writing International Conference 2021. She is currently the Secretary and Podcast Co-Host for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI).
In 2019, Jasmin graduated from an MA Creative Writing: Prose Fiction at UEA. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines including Tor.com, Failight Books, and as the cover-story of Open Pen. Her ecocritical poetry has been published in magazines including Presence, Blithe Spirit and Frogpond, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Museum of Haiku Literature Award. She was the 2022 Research-in-Residence for the British Haiku Society, working on a creative archival project called 'Twisting Point: the evolution of haiku in the climate crisis', which featured as the Keynote for the Society's Winter Gathering 2023.
Prior to joining City, Jasmin worked in trade publishing, notably as a book trade journalist for industry magazine BookBrunch and as Publishing Director at Endeavour Media. Her specialty is in editorial and she had a successful freelance career as a developmental editor, copy editor, and proofreader. She's worked with publishing houses from indie literary presses to commercial genre imprints. This included work on Pulitzer-winners, Booker-longlistees, BBC Books of the Week, and Amazon top ten bestsellers.
Qualifications
- MA Creative Writing: Prose, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, Oct 2019
- PhD Creative and Critical Writing, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, Oct 2019 – Sep 2023
- MA Ancient History, King's College London, United Kingdom, Oct 2012 – Oct 2013
- BA Classical Studies, King's College London, United Kingdom, Sep 2009 – Jun 2012
Publications
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Chapter
- In Baverstock, A., Bradford, R. and Gonzalez, M. (Eds.), Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books. In Routledge.