Overview
Hunter is a PhD candidate working on the representation and conceptualization of nature, the environment, and non-human life in Old and Middle English literature. His dissertation focuses on the intersection of human subjectivity and non-human creatures and environments. His work studies the idea of the "self" in the Middle Ages from an ecosystemic point of view, examining how the regulation of the human soul and body, as well as the competing faculties of the soul such as reason and the will, mimics and even draws upon the same language, metaphors, and systems that govern how early English poets, philosophers, and theologians construct human relationships with the natural world.
Research Focus
- Medieval Literature
- Ecocriticism
- Animal Studies
- Posthumanism