Dr Campbell is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Environmental Cultures, based in the School of Critical Studies. Before arriving at Glasgow she held previous positions at Edinburgh Napier University, the University of Edinburgh, and Bath Spa University. She received her PhD from the University of Glasgow.

Dr Alexandra Campbell is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Environmental Cultures at the University of Glasgow. Her research and teaching interests broadly encompass the cultural aesthetics of critical infrastructures with a focus on just transition, supply chain cartographies, and political ecology.

With Dr Henry Ivry and Max Karpinski she is the author of the book Sounding Out: Sonic Revolt, Insurgent Listening, Abolition Ecologies (Goldsmiths 2027), which listens with Black and Indigenous sound artists to address contemporary entanglements of ecological crisis, sonic resistance, and racial violence. Her current monograph project, Counterlogistical Aesthetics, examines the lived terrains and cultural grammars of contemporary circulation struggles in the wake of the logistics revolution of the 1960s to the present day. From the production line to the port, the shipping container to the cloud, the project tracks an insurgent history of artistic refusal and disruption that manifests against the circulatory infrastructures of supply-chain capital. In addition to her work in critical logistics, she is a founding member of a new international research network in ‘Supply Chain Criticism’ which examines the conjunctural moment of twinned transition and critical supply chain expansion proposed by the EU Critical Raw Materials Act.

Her work has appeared in major international journals and edited collections including, The Journal of Postcolonial Literature, Humanities, Social Science Information Journal, Études écossaises, The Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities, The Routledge Companion to World Literature and the Environment, The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. She is the Co-General Editor of Green Letters and Co-Director of the Infrastructure Humanities Group (IHG) at the University of Glasgow.

Research groups

• Postcolonial/Critical Race Theory
• Infrastructure, Energy & Environment

List by: Type | Date

• 2023: Landhaus Fellowship, Rachel Carson Centre, 'Insurgent Ecologies'
• 2022-23: British Academy/Wellcome Trust Conference Grant, 'Resisting Toxic Climates'
• 2022-24: Learning Development Fund, University of Glasgow, 'Decolonising the School of Critical Studies'
• 2020-2021: RSE Workshop Grant, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 'World/Water Futures'
• 2018: Brigstow Ideas Exchange Fund, University of Bristol, 'Humans and Oceans'
• 2018: ASLE International Subvention Grant, Association for the Study of Literature and Environmnent USA, 'Ocean Matters'

Dr Campbell welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students in interested in pursuing research on topics relating to: contemporary poetry and ecopoetics; media ecology; energy/environmental humanities; critical infrastructure and logistics studies; environmental justice and radical ecologies. 

She has suucessfully supervised a number of interdisciplinary PhDs and DFAs on topics including: Dalit feminist poetics; Contemporary Migrant poetry and the Qasida; Anthropocene poetics and 'hypercritique'; and ocean energy transition cultures.

She is currently not accepting new PhD candidates until 2027. 

• Douge, Amanda
  Rosa Luxemburg and I
• Fornells Nadal, Helena
  Provisional Title – Poetry and Land Reform: A New Ecopoetics for Scotland
• Murray, Rachael
  Dead Water: The Aqueous ‘Beyond’ in Romantic and Victorian Gothic
• Roy, Persephone Liezel
  We Are All Eaters of Souls: Polar Wastelands and the Gothic Legacy of Imperial Exploration

Previous Supervisees:

Sledmere, Maria: 'Hypercritique: Toward a Lyric Architechture for the Anthropocene' (Completed 2022)

Dr Campbell's research interests greatly inform her teaching practices in which she strives to pursue forms of antiracist pedagogy and radical inclusivity in the classroom space. In 2021 she was awarded 'Best Practice in Inclusive Education' by the University of Glasgows Student Representative Council. In 2022-4 she will was PI on a Learning and Teaching Development bid with colleagues in the SCS titled 'Decolonising the School of Critical Studies'. She is the current Pre-Honours convener in English Literature.

She currently convenes the following courses:

• ENGLIT1011 1A: Poetry and Poetics
• ENGLIT4140: Global Anglophone Literature: Colonailism, Capitalism and the Infrastructural Imaginary
• ENGLIT4134/5121 Futures: Unbundling the Now
• COMMS5008: Media Ecologies