My interest in ecocriticism responds to the need to reconsider ways of thinking that have led us to our current global crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective, whilst advocating for the ecological awareness of the interdependence of human and more than human beings, using environmental arts and humanities as tools to help us find solutions for a more sustainable society.

Lorraine Kerslake is Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Alicante and a member of the Research Institute for Gender Studies. She is a member of the Transhistorical Literary Studies in English (THALIS/VIGROB-292) research group. She has worked as a translator of literary criticism, poetry and art criticism and has published widely on children's and YA literature and ecocriticism.

Since 2010 she has been a member of the Research Group on Ecocriticism (GIECO). From 2016 to 2020 she was executive editor of the journal Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE) and is also a member of the Executive Board for IRSCL: The International Research Society for Children's Literature.

She is currently the leading researcher of the project "Women Who Write Animals" (CIGE/2021/153) and was the PI of the research project  "Angels of the Ecosystem?" (GV/2020/029). She has participated in other projects such as "Stories for Change" and Aglaya "Innovation Strategies in Cultural Mythocriticism" (H2019/HUM-5714 AGLAYA-CM Grupo GIECO).
She is author of The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor of Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities (Brill, 2021).
Her most recent publications include "Aesthetic Entanglements in the Age of the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Reading of Shaun Tan's Tales from the Inner City." Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 60, no. 4 (2022): 38-47. doi:10.1353/bkb.2022.0058; "Reading The Iron Woman in Times of Crisis as a Tale of Hope." Children's Literature in Education 53, 439-453 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-021-09459-4; “Ted Hughes: The Importance of Fostering Creative Writing as Environmental Education”. Children's Literature in Education 52, 478-492 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-020-09427-4; "Of Mice, Rabbits and Other Companion Species in Beatrix Potter's More than Human World". In Besson, Françoise, et al. (Eds.). Reading Cats and Dogs: Companion Animals in World Literature (Lexington Books, 2021), pp. 79-93.

Lines of research: ecocriticism, children's and YA literature, the representation of animals and nature in literature and art, ecofeminism.