Brian J. McAllister's research and teaching includes modern and contemporary literature, poetry studies, narratology, spatial theory, environmental literature and science fiction. Dr. McAllister guest edited a special issue of the journal Narrative on the intersections of poetry studies and narrative theory. He has published articles on topics such as visual poetry, science-fiction poetry, disorienting spaces and unnatural narrative. His current work includes mapping post-WWII networks between British and American poets, a study of art and literature that confront transformations of space and time in the Anthropocene, and a project on the politics of disorienting space in post-WWII Scottish and Irish literature.