David Higgins

David Higgins is an associate professor in English literature at Leeds university. His areas of expertise include British Romanticism, constructions of the self, nationalism, imperialism, literary ecologies, and ecotheory. He has been at Leeds since 2006, having previously taught at Cambridge University, York University, and others. He originally studied as an undergraduate at the University of Sussex before gaining his masters and PhD at York. Currently David is working on a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to write a history of British nature writing in the last two centuries. He is keenly interested in furthering public conversation on key environment issues.