Shannon Lambert is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. Her work on topics like science and narrative, environmental affect, and the nonhuman in literature has been published in journals such as American Imago, ISLE, and SubStance.

Projects

Projects as postdoc

Fictions of bio-messiness. Interspecies ambiguity in the experimental forms and spaces of post-1945 novels (2022 - 2025)

Projects as PhD researcher

Narrating the mesh. Ecology and the nonhuman in contemporary fiction and oral storytelling (2017 - 2021)

Publications

Key publications

Narrative bodies and nonhuman transformations(2019)
- Marco Caracciolo
- Shannon Lambert
‘Mycorrhizal multiplicities’ : mapping collective agency in Richard Powers’s The Overstory(2021)
- Shannon Lambert
'Agents of description' : animals, affect, and care in Thalia Field’s Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction (2016)(2020)
- Shannon Lambert
Affective ecocriticism : emotion, embodiment, environment(2020)
- Shannon Lambert
Bodies of knowledge : experimenting with science and affect in contemporary literature(2021)
- Shannon Lambert

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Services

UGent PhD researcher mentor

UGent meter

(Previously) Co-coordinator Graduate Support Network

(Previously) Co-coordinator English Section Reading Group