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Dewey W. Hall is Professor of English at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, CA. where he has taught for over two decades. As a materialist ecocritic, he has written extensively on Romanticism, Victorian Studies, New Materialism, and Early Environmental History. Major publications in these fields include:

• Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789-1912 (Routledge 2014)
• Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies (Rowman & Littlefield 2016)
• Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice (Rowman & Littlefield 2017)
• Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Clemson and Liverpool University Presses 2020)
• Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles (Bloomsbury 2025)

At Cal Poly ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, he is the co-director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative, which convened its inaugural symposium in March 2026. He is also the chairperson of the EML Department's Retention, Tenure, and Promotion committee. He has served in various capacities with major organizations, which include the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), and currently the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) on the program committee to convene NASSR 2026 in Los Angeles.

As part of his engagement with the broader research community, he gave a keynote address titled “The Ecology of the Goslar Verses: Weather, Pico Viejo, and Material Objects” to a gathering of international scholars at German Society for English Romanticism Conference 2022 held in Augsburg, Germany, which has been published by the noteworthy German publisher Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT) in Romantic Ecologies: Selected Papers from the Augsburg Conference (October 2023). His chapter titled “The Political Ecology of Matter: Marbles, Volcanoes, and Humans” has been published in Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s (Cambridge UP, 2026 see link below).

Further, he delivered a series of invited lectures at the University of Bristol hosted by various departments that included English, Environmental Humanities, Geographical Sciences, and History of Art, featuring his project “Revisiting the Elgin Marbles: A Materialist Approach” as a visiting professor in the fall 2024 (see link below). The lectures were derived from his published monograph Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles (Bloomsbury, December 2025 see link below). Recently, he delivered a plenary lecture to a gathering of international scholars in the History of Art at the Watercolour and Weather Conference hosted by the Université de Lausanne and Université de Genève in June 2025.

Currently, his new monograph is under construction titled The Volcanic Imagination in the Age of Climate Change: Materiality in Print and Visual Culture, 1780s–1880s (forthcoming Routledge, Fall 2027). His new edited volume titled Volcanic Materiality: Literature and Art in the Anthropocene is under review with Edinburgh University Press pending a decision from the editorial board in May 2026.

*Materialist Romanticism: The Matter of the Marbles

 

*Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1810s

 

*Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol (Fall 2024)

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