Astrid Bracke writes on twenty-first-century British fiction and nonfiction, ecocriticism and narratology, climate crisis and floods. Her monograph, Climate Crisis and the Twenty-First-Century British Novel, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2018. Her work has appeared in English Studies, and The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. She is currently working on a project on climate crisis flood fictions. She is lecturer of British literature at HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen (Netherlands).
“Science and Ecology.” In The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan, edited by Dominic Head. In press.
“Living to Tell the Story: Characterization, Narrative Perspective and Ethics in Climate Crisis Flood Novels.” In The Palgrave Handbook in Literature and Contemporary Philosophy, edited byRidvan Askin, Frida Beckman, and David Rudrum. In press.
“Flooded Futures: The Representation of the Anthropocene in Twenty-First-Century British Flood Fictions.”Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 60, no. 3 (2019):278-288.
Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
“‘Man Is the Storytelling Animal’: Graham Swift's Waterland, Ecocriticism, and Narratology.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 25, no. 1 (2018): 220–37.