Draft:Jeremy Diaper

• Comment: Good work so far on this article. However, unfortunately, in order to prove notability, an article needs to references 2-3 sources which are reliable, independent, secondary sources, which talk about the subject of the Wikipedia article at length. This still has not been done - I suspect because you are treating it like a piece of argumentation, where multiple redundant citations are meant to “prove” a fact, rather than establishing notability. In order to establish notability for Diaper himself, rather than for his works, we need articles which talk directly about the man himself, at length, rather than about his works. Given current sources, you would almost certainly have enough proof of notability for Diaper’s book T.S. Eliot and Organicism, which the sources talk about at length, while not having enough for this article on Diaper. These large strings of multiple cited sources for each of his works should be pared down as citations, with the best one or two cited, and maybe the next one or two best added to a “further reading” list. In addition to the notability issues, the article itself reads like a resume, which should be fixed by editing the language used, and cutting out quotes from reviews. Good luck and keep up the good work 👍 Absurdum4242 (talk) 16:02, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Two reviews for T. S. Eliot and Organicism, an improvement over first draft, but still doesn't seem to meet notability guidelines. Also TLS should be cited directly. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 23:51, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: This isn't meeting the requirements for either [{WP:NPROF]] or WP:NAUTHOR at the moment. The two fellowships do not count under NPROF since they are "apply and pay" fellowships rather than elected. For authors the usual criteria is "two books, two reviews each book". Moreover just name checking the TLS isn't convincing evidence, it needs to be summarised. ChrysGalley (talk) 10:24, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

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Jeremy Diaper FRSA FRHistS
Personal details
Born	1988 (age 37–38)
Education	University of Birmingham

Jeremy Diaper FRSA FRHistS (born 1988), is a British academic administrator, literary scholar and environmental historian. His research specialisms include T. S. Eliot, literary modernism and ecocriticism. Since 2024, he has served as Director of Governance Services and Deputy Secretary to Council at the University of Exeter.

Early Life and Education

During 2000-2004, he was Head Chorister of the Southern Cathedral Singers, a renowned choral group associated with the Southern Cathedrals Festival. During this period his performances were recorded on BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong and he deputised for the Cathedral Choirs of St Paul's Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, and Ely Cathedral.

Career

Diaper graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA, Hons) and Master of Philosophy (MPhil) from the University of Birmingham in 2009 and 2011. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature from the University of Birmingham in 2015, where he studied under the supervision of Steve Ellis (literary scholar). His PhD thesis ('A wrong attitude towards nature': T. S. Eliot and agriculture) was examined by Alexandra Harris. During his doctoral studies he also studied alongside other notable writers including Islam Issa (academic) and Elizabeth O'Connor.

At the University of Birmingham (2017-2019) he was speechwriter for the Vice-Chancellor Sir David Eastwood, which included the Sir Robert Menzies Oration on Higher Education in 2018.

During his time at Durham University (2019-2023) he was Secretary to the Joint Council and Senate Chancellor Appointment Committee and senior advisor on the appointment process for the University's 13th Chancellor Fiona Hill (presidential advisor).

Diaper is the author of T. S. Eliot and Organicism (2018) which received widespread acclaim as an important contribution to environmental history. It provided the first account of Eliot's preoccupation with agrarianism and incorporated original historical research to contextualize several facets of his organic thinking, ranging from composting and soil fertility to regionalism and nutrition.

T. S. Eliot and Organicism (2018) was reviewed by Stefan Collini as the lead review in The Times Literary Supplement in May 2019 and praised for yielding "ample evidence of parallels between that of Eliot's work and a number of prominent writers on agriculture and its place in a good society.".

He is also the editor of Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment and Nature in Literary Modernism (2023) and Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Modernist Cultures on 'Modernism and the Environment'.

Diaper delivered a keynote lecture at the T. S. Eliot International Summer School at Merton College, Oxford in 2024, which brings together renowned scholars, poets and novelists from around the world. Previous speakers have included Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, playwright Tom Stoppard and poet Hannah Sullivan.

Diaper was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2025 for his contribution to research on environmental history and T. S. Eliot's influential role in the espousal of the organic husbandry movement.

He has also been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a member of the Senior Common Room University College, Durham.

Selected Publications

• Diaper, Jeremy. T.S. Eliot and Organicism (2018). Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press.
• Diaper, Jeremy (ed). Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment and Nature in Literary Modernism (2023). Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press.
• Diaper, Jeremy (ed). Modernism and the Environment, Special Issue of Modernist Cultures 16, no 1 (February 2021), 1-137.

Book Chapters

• Diaper, Jeremy. "Introduction: Eco-Modernism." In Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment and Nature in Literary Modernism (Clemson University Press (US)/Liverpool University Press (UK), January 2023): 1-14.
• Diaper, Jeremy. "Planting, Gardens, and Organicism in Literary Modernism." In Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment and Nature in Literary Modernism (Clemson University Press (US)/Liverpool University Press (UK), January 2023): 139-152.
• Diaper, Jeremy. "From 'Squalid Food' to 'A Proper Cuisine': Food and Fare in Eliot's Work." In Gastro-Modernism: Food, Literature, Culture, edited by Derek Gladwin (Clemson University Press (US)/Liverpool University Press (UK), September 2019), 165-182.
• Diaper, Jeremy. "'In Conformity with Nature': T. S. Eliot's Religious Agrarianism." In Religion, Philosophy and Myth in T. S. Eliot's Poetry, edited by Michael Bell and Scott Freer, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), 121-140.