Terry Gifford (born in 1946) is a British scholar at Bath Spa University [1] and poet.
He is known for his role in developing British ecocriticism and his research interests include pastoral literary theory, ecofeminist analysis of D.H. Lawrence, John Muir, Ted Hughes, creative writing, poetry, and mountaineering.
His book D. H. Lawrence, Ecofeminism and Nature (Routledge 2023) was put on the shortlist for the Association for Studies in Literature and it garnered the Environment prize in 2023 for Best Academic Monograph.
In 1985, he became a senior lecturer in English at Bretton Hall College in Leeds University.
A small sample of his major works, chosen to demonstrate the variety of his output, includes: