Tom van Bunnik is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University in the ERC-funded project Ecologies of Violence: Crimes Against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination. The project explores how contemporary culture frames and remembers environmental degradation as violence. 

Specifically, Tom's research explores how eco-violence is framed and remembered in contemporary ecopoetry and ecopoetics and how such representations can make visible the entanglement of eco-violence with other histories of violence. His research investigates how ecopoetry and ecopoetics reflect on questions of guilt, implication, and responsibility in eco-violence. 

Tom holds a BA in English Literature and in German Literature, and an MA in Comparative Literary Studies. He wrote his MA thesis on the poetics of the commons.