Lydia Nixon is a PhD student in the English department, where her research focuses on contemporary literature and environmental justice. Her dissertation explores emergent temporal and ontological orientations in contemporary ecopoetry, specifically in the context of the climate crisis. Lydia’s HASTAC project dovetails with the growing interest within ecocriticism in joining traditional literary analysis with empirical ecocriticism: her project will examine how people engage with contemporary ecopoetry on social media, with the hope of better understanding how ecopoetry can serve as a mediator for the incomprehensible scale of the climate crisis.