Dr. Joshua King

Research Interests

Romantic and Victorian Literature

Education

PhD, Harvard University
BA, University of Virginia

Selected Research, Publication and Presentation Highlights

Book Chapters in Collections

• King, Joshua. “Wordsworth’s Churchyards: Composting Localism in Compromised Sacred Commons.” Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1810s, ed. Emma Mason, Cambridge series on Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition (Cambridge UP, 2026), pp. 66-91. (10,000 words).
• King, Joshua. "“Literary Counter-Liturgies and Environmental Justice.” Handbook of Religion and the Environment, eds. Ibrahim Ozdemir, Stephanie Boddie, and Susan Bratton (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2026), pp. 124-140 (9,000 words).
• King, Joshua. “Ecology.” Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context, ed. Marton Dubois, Cambridge series on Literature in Context (Cambridge University Press 2025), pp. 149-156 (3,000 words).

Journal Articles and Special Issues of Journals

• King, Joshua, Chris Adamson and Dino Franco Felluga. Special issue on "Conferencing, Crisis, and the Profession" in Victoriographies 15.2 (July 2025). Free access online.

• King, Joshua, Chris Adamson and Dino Franco Felluga. "Introduction: Conferencing, Crisis, and the Profession," special issue of Victoriographies 15.2 (July 2025), pp. 101-117 (6,619 words). Free access online.

• King, Joshua, Chris Adamson, Emily Allen, Dino Franco Felluga, and Monica Wolfe. “Event 2024: Embodied and Virtual Events across Nations and Time,” Victorian  Review 50.1 (pub. 2025 [issue for Spring 2024]), contribution to special “Forum: Thinking Relationally: Victorian Studies and the Climate Crisis” guested edited by Barbara Leckie, pp. 31-35.

Presentations and Lectures

• King, Joshua. “Other Creatures Praise: Poetry, Liturgy, and Ecological Crisis in Modernity.”
  Annual Lectureship on Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, April 2026

• King, Joshua. “Cultivating Refugia: Literature Classes and Local Healing.”
  Annual Lectureship on Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, April 2026

Bio

Joshua King is a Professor of English and directs the Environmental Humanities Minor, which examines the cultural and social roots of environmental harm and healing while involving students in co-creating just and thriving futures through community-engaged learning projects.  In connection with this work, Dr. King serves on the Core Faculty Leadership team for Baylor’s contributions to the related SCRAP Collective (Sustainable Community and Regenerative Agriculture Project). He is author of Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print (2015) and coeditor, with Winter Jade Werner, of Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue (2019). He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on poetics, religion, print culture, and ecotheological and environmental perspectives in nineteenth-century British literature.  

For details on Dr. King’s publications, research, and teaching, please visit his Personal Website.