Biography

Adeline is Reader in English Literature and English Subject Leader. She joined the University of Surrey in 2012, having previously worked at the University of Exeter, where she was head of English at the Cornwall Campus from 2005 to 2010.

Research Interests

• Environmental criticism
• Romanticism, esp. women’s writing
• Epic literature
• Genre theory

Research Collaborations

Adeline is Chair of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (UK and Ireland) [www.asle.org.uk]. She is also a member of the editorial board for the journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.
Her grants include:

• From Climate to Landscape: Imagining the Future (2009-12), European Social Fund  (co-investigator)
• Understanding Landscape through Creative Auto-Ethnographies (2007), AHRC network (co-investigator)
• The History of the Epic (2004), AHRB research leave
  

In 2012, she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University.
Adeline welcomes enquiries from doctoral students interested in working in any aspect of environmental criticism, Romanticism or epic poetry.

Publications

Books

Process: Landscape and Text. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010 (co-edited with Catherine Brace).
The History of the Epic. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006.
Heroes and Housewives: Women’s Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (1770-1835). Bern: Peter Lang, 2001.

Journal articles
“Eleanor Anne Porden’s Cœur de Lion: History, Epic, and Romance”. Women’s Writing 19.3 (2012): 351-71.
“‘Blending Science with Literature’: The Royal Institution, Eleanor Anne Porden, and The Veils”. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 33.1 (2011): 35-52.
“Climate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism”. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 2.2 (2011): 185-200 (with Adam Trexler).  
“Ecocriticism, Genre, and Climate Change: Reading the Utopian Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy”. English Studies 91.7 (2010): 744-760.
“Recovering Inspiration in the Spaces of Creative Writing”. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35.2 (2010): 399-413 (with Catherine Brace)
“Satire and Domesticity in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Minding the Gap”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 33.1 (2010): 67-87.
“Home and the Harem: Early Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Representations of Women by Women”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 2.3 (2006).
“Satirising the Courtly Woman and Defending the Domestic Woman: Mock Epics and Women Poets in the Romantic Age”. Romanticism on the Net 15 (1999).
“Christ as Woman’s Seed: Romantic Women Poets Rewriting the Bible”. Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism 6 (1999): 59-81.

Book chapters
“Care, Gender and the Climate-Changed Future: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People”. Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction. Ed. Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013 (in press).
“Key Critical Concepts and Topics”. The Romanticism Handbook. Ed Sue Chaplin and Joel Faflak. London: Continuum, 2011. 100-18.
“The Importance of Process”. Process: Landscape and Text. Ed. Catherine Brace and Adeline Johns-Putra. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 29-44 (with Catherine Brace).
“Anna Seward’s Translations of Horace: Poetic Dress, Poetic Matter and the Lavish Paraphrase”. Translators, Interpreters, Mediators: Women Writers 1700-1900. Ed. Gillian E. Dow. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. 111-28.
“Gendering Telemachus: Anna Seward and the Epic Rewriting of Fénelon’s Télémaque”. Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982. Ed. Bernard Schweizer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 85-97.

Encyclopaedia essays
“Epic”. The Literary Encyclopaedia. Ed. Robert Clark. <www.litencyc.com>
“Feminist Approaches to Romantic Literature”. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760-1850. Ed. Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.
“Helen Maria Williams”. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760-1850. Ed. Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.
“Joanna Baillie”. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760-1850. Ed. Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.

Departmental Duties

English Subject Leader
English Exams Officer (undergraduate)