Professor Stewart Mottram
Professor of Literature and Environment
+44 (0)1482 465597
s.mottram@hull.ac.uk
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Hull
Specialities: Literature and environment, eco-criticism, environmental humanities, seventeenth-century studies, digital heritage.
STEWART MOTTRAM is Professor of Literature and Environment with a research focus on the literatures and cultures of coastal communities. He explores how the risks and benefits of living with water shape coastal experience and leave their ‘water mark’ on the literatures and art forms these communities produce.
Stewart leads the AHRC project, From Noah to Now: A Cultural History of Flooding in English Coastal and Estuary Communities and is Project Lead for the AHRC (with NERC) Living Well with Water Doctoral Focal Awards in the Arts and Humanities.
Stewart collaborates with environmental specialists from across the humanities and sciences and leads the AHRC/XR Stories funded Rising Tide of Humber project, which recreates historical flooding within the Humber estuary using virtual reality in order to raise awareness of today’s changing climate.
A Co-Director of the University of Hull’s Centre for Water Cultures, Stewart has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust (2008-10) and AHRC (2014-15, 2024-25) and was Co-I on the AHRC Risky Cities project at Hull (2020-23).
