Aili Channer
DPhil Candidate
Lincoln College
Thesis Title: Hidden Minds, Minerals, and Meanings: Extractive and Unreachable Zones in Interregnum and Restoration Writings on ‘Nature’
Supervisor: Professor Kathryn Murphy
Research interests: ‘Nature writing’ broadly defined; natural history, natural philosophy and natural theology; plant and animal studies; environmental humanities; empire and colonialism; extractivism; alchemy; mysticism, prophecy and enthusiasm; the Royal Society and the Cambridge Platonists; literary responses to the Scientific Revolution; allegory in scientific writing
