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This Research Cluster takes the term ‘Anthropocene’ as the marker for a series of conversations about the climate emergency, the condition of being human and humankind’s relations with other species.

The IAS Quirk Postdoctoral Fellowships are funded from the generous bequest of Professor the Lord Charles Randolph Quirk, 1920-2017, linguist and life peer, who began his academic career as a lecturer at ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ and was Professor here from 1960 to 1981. Professor Quirk was renowned for his pioneering Survey of English Usage, which resulted in a series of publications that became standard works of reference, both on the English language itself and on how to approach the study of linguistic form and usage.

Professor Quirk’s endowment is to support ‘humanistic scholarship’ in the fields of language and literature, broadly conceived, and in the spirit of his wide-ranging intellectual outlook, Languages of the Anthropocene takes the contested term ‘Anthropocene’ as the marker for a series of conversations and disputes about the climate emergency, the condition of being human, and humankind’s relations with other species.