Madeline Bassnett, Professor Department of English and Writing Studies and Director of Writing Studies, is a poet and scholar who specializes in early modern food studies, ecocriticism, climate studies, and women's writing and teaches English and Creative Writing at Western University.

She earned her PhD at Dalhousie University.

Dr. Bassnet is the author of the poetry collection Under the Gamma Camera, and two chapbooks, Pilgrimage and Elegies, as well as a literary monograph, Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England. Her work has recently appeared in The Scales Project, Watch Your Head, long con magazine, Prairie Fire, Hamilton Arts and Letters, The New Quarterly, and in the anthology, In Fine Form, 2nd Edition: A Contemporary Look at Canadian Form Poetry. She is also on the board of the Poetry London reading series.