Fred Carter is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher in contemporary poetry and environmental humanities. He teaches Queer Studies and pre-honours English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Between May and July 2019, he was a visiting doctoral student at the Rachel Carson Centre, Munich. Currently, he is co-organiser of the AHRC-funded project ‘FIELDWORK: Sites & Infrastructures in the Environmental Humanities’ and co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of Green Letters on ‘Militant Ecologies.’

His doctoral research examines linguistically innovative poetry in relation to the environmental humanities, situating the research practices of the open field, the formal tactics of Marxist-feminist poetry, and their afterlives in contemporary innovative poetics within and against the Anthropocene. He is particularly interested in the relation of environmental poetry to nonlinear temporalities, queer and feminist Marxisms, and critical junctures between historical materialism and the material turn.

A book chapter, titled ‘“time on the rocks”: Parataxis, materialism, & nonlinear time in the archaeopoetic “now” of Wendy Mulford’s innovative lyric,’ is forthcoming in Corroding the Now (Veer Books & Crater Press, 2021) and a review of Rob Kiely’s simmering of a declarative void (87 Press 2020) was recently published by SPAM magazine. 

He has published poetry in Tenebrae, erotoplasty, -algia, and the weird folds: everyday poetry from the Anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe 2020). His first collection, Notes for Presenteeism & Sleep is out with Veer2 in 2021.