- 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
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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 in the final year of a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA), exploring hope in dystopian climate fiction. Her peer-reviewed articles have been published in journals including The Cormac McCarthy Journal and LOGOS, and she has presented at conferences including the ASLE -UKI Biennial Conference 2022 and UEA/EACWP CW50 Futures for Creative Writing International Conference 2021. She is currently an ECR Respresentative for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
In 2019, Jasmin graduated from an MA Creative Writing: Prose Fiction at UEA. Her Hugo-nominated short fiction has appeared in magazines including Tor.com. Her ecocritical poetry has been published in magazines including Presence and Frogpond, and she was shortlisted for the 2019 Museum of Haiku Literature Award. She is the current 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.
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
- 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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- Kirkbride, J. (2020). Understanding our place: publishing’s role in the reading ecosystem under neoliberal economics. In Baverstock, A., Bradford, R. and Gonzalez, M. (Eds.), Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-44315-3.