Research Overview

Enaiê Mairê Azambuja is Research Associate in Environmental Humanities at Lancaster University. She has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Surrey with a thesis entitled “Cosmological Imaginations: Zen and material ecopoetics in William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings”. This doctoral project, funded by the AHRC TECHNE Doctoral Training Partnership, was a study of the impact of Zen on twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to debates on material ecocriticism and current definitions of ecopoetics. Her first book The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry was published by Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media series (2023). Her research and teaching interests are ecocriticism and ecopoetics, Modernist poetry, intersections of literary and religious studies, and creative writing.