Dr Campbell is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Environmental Cultures, based in the School of Critical Studies. Before arriving at Glasgow she held previous positions at Edinburgh Napier University, the University of Edinburgh, and Bath Spa University. She received her PhD from the University of Glasgow.

• Blue Humanities and Critical Ocean Studies
• Ecopoetics and Contemporary Poetry
• Energy Humanities and Marine Justice
• Infrastructure Humanities
• Critical Logistics
• Radical politics and insurgent poetics

Dr Alexandra Campbell is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Environmental Cultures at the University of Glasgow. Her research interrogates the nexus of interlocking forms of social and environmental resistance that occur within and against logistical infrastructure. Her current monograph project, "Counterlogistical Forms: Infrastructural Resistance, Refusal and Repair in Literature and Culture since 1960", interrogates the lived terrains and emergent grammars of struggle as they materialize in and against logistical infrastructures of circulation and supply from 1960 to the present. From the production line to the port, the shipping container to the cloud, the project tracks an insurgent history of refusal and disruption that manifests beneath and within the circulatory infrastructures of supply-chain capital. If logistics names a regime of accumulation through calculative logics of metrical regulation, efficiency, and optimization, this project asks: what forms of resistance and disruption emerge in and against logistical infrastructures? In reading logistical accumulation and struggle in dialectical relation, the project gathers and examines an archive of sonic, visual, and literary artworks that emerge in tandem with insurgent forms of political antagonism that seek to stutter, stall, and glitch the circulatory flows of capital.

In addition to her work on critical logistics and infrastructure humanities Dr Campbell has published on sabotage and contemporay ecopoetics, energy extractivism in Scottish poetry, and holds wider research interests in offshore extraction cultures and marine energy transition. She has published in international journals and major companions including, The Journal of Postcolonial Literature, Critique, Humanities, The Routledge Companion to Energy Humanities, The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. 

She is the current Co-editor of the ASLE-UKI Journal, Green Letters and founding member of the University of Glasgow's Infrastructure Humanities Group (IHG).

Dr Campbell's research interests greatly inform her teaching in which she strives to pursue forms of antiracist pedagogy and radical inclusivity in the classroom space. In 2021 she was awarded 'Best Practice in Inclusive Education' by the University of Glasgows Student Representative Council. In 2022-4 she will was PI on a Learning and Teaching Development bid with colleagues in the SCS titled 'Decolonising the School of Critical Studies'. 

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• 2023: Landhaus Fellowship, Rachel Carson Centre, 'Insurgent Ecologies'
• 2022-23: British Academy/Wellcome Trust Conference Grant, 'Resisting Toxic Climates'
• 2022-24: Learning Development Fund, University of Glasgow, 'Decolonising the School of Critical Studies'
• 2020-2021: RSE Workshop Grant, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 'World/Water Futures'
• 2018: Brigstow Ideas Exchange Fund, University of Bristol, 'Humans and Oceans'
• 2018: ASLE International Subvention Grant, Association for the Study of Literature and Environmnent USA, 'Ocean Matters'

Dr Campbell welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students in interested in pursuing research on topics relating to: contemporary poetry and ecopoetics; critical ocean studies/blue humanities; energy humanities; critical infrastructure and logistics; environmental justice and radical ecologies.  

• Murray, Rachael
  The Sea as the ‘Beyond’ in Romantic and Victorian Literature

Previous Supervisees:

Sledmere, Maria: 'Hypercritique: Toward a Lyric Architechture for the Anthropocene' (Completed 2022)