Fiona Stafford

Professor Stafford is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She works on the literature and culture of the Romantic period, especially Austen, Burns, Byron, Clare, Keats, Macpherson, the Shelleys, Wordsworth and Coleridge, and on their influences on the modern world. Her research interests include Place and Nature Writing (old and new); Trees, Flowers and their cultural history; coasts and seascapes; Environmental Humanities; Irish and Scottish literature; Archipelagic literature; literature and the visual arts.

Her most recent book is The Brief Life of Flowers (2018).  Like her acclaimed book, The Long, Long Life of Trees (2016), it draws on first-hand observation, literature, art, folklore, mythology, cultural history, natural science, botany, history of medicine. She is currently working on a book about Place and landscape, and on a history of Romantic Literature.