Paul Cockburn, PhD

[2025-] Marketing Executive for British Academy Publishing, Liverpool University Press

[2015-] Tutor of English Literature, English Language, & Academic Writing

Doctoral Thesis

Concrete-Jungle: Reading Nature in Representations of New York City

Fellowships and Awards

[2023] British Research Council Fellowship, Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

[2019-2023] Doctoral Award, Northern Bridge Consortium (Arts & Humanities Research Council)

Publications

[2024] co-author, ‘Responding to the Growing Issue of Journal Hijacking‘, International Development Planning Review, 46.4 (Liverpool University Press)

[2022] ‘Forgotten Futures: Caesar’s Column (1890)’, Imaginary Papers, Centre for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University

Posts

[2026] co-author, ‘Review: The British Academy Early Career Research Network Book Publishing Conference 2026‘, Liverpool University Press Blog

[2024] co-author, ‘Journals and Publishers Facing Issues from Fraudulent Sites (2)’, Liverpool University Press Blog

[2021] co-author, ‘PGR Contribution on Leading Interdisciplinary Workshop’, Transformations, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University

[2020] ‘Review: Eliza Mood, O Man of Clay‘, Research in English at Durham

Papers

[2024] ‘Manhattan as Supervenice: Why Finance Thrives in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Flooded Future’, re/Writing Crisis: Climate, Environment and Ecocritical Imagination, Newcastle University

[2023] ‘New York on the Loose: a Hunt in Progress’, Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

[2021] ‘”all the strange weeds”: Cultivation, Nativism, and Revolution in Edith Wharton’s New York’, New Work in Modernist Studies, 11, British Association for Modernist Studies

[2021] ‘The Tiger Who Came to Manhattan: Reading Nature in Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City’, Late Summer Lecture Series, Department of English Studies, Durham University

[2021] ‘Nature and Agency in the Creative Literature of New York City’, Cities in a Changing World, Architecture Media Politics and Society, 24, City University of New York

Panels

[2026] ‘Publishers: What do Early Career Researchers Want?’, Redux, Association of Learned Presses and Society Publishers

[2026] ‘Nonlinear Routes to Publication’, Academic Book Publishing Conference, British Academy Early Career Research Network

[2025] ‘Early Career Researcher Publishing Roundtable’, Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne, University of Liverpool

[2025] ‘Plenary Roundtable: Alternative Academic Careers’, Romantic (un)Consciousness, British Association for Romantic Studies

[2021] ‘Leading Interdisciplinary Research’, Northern Bridge Autumn Conference, Durham University

Teaching

[2023-2024 & 2020-2021] Teaching Assistant, ‘Introduction to Poetry’, Department of English Studies, Durham University

[2021-2022] Teaching Assistant, ‘Introduction to the Novel’, Department of English Studies, Durham University

Qualifications

[2026] Doctor of Philosophy, English Literature, Durham University

[2017] Master of Arts (Distinction), ‘Twentieth- & Twenty-First Century Literary Studies’, Durham University

[2015] Bachelor of Arts (1st Class), ‘English Literature with Creative Writing with International Experience’, Bangor University (13-14, Pace University, New York City)