Visiting Scholars

Current and former visiting scholars at the Vienna Anthropocene Network


Visiting Scholars (Summer Term 2023)

Elisa Mazzocato

Portrait photo of Elisa Mazzocato

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Ecocriticism, Modern German Literature, Anthropocene Literature


Erasmus exchange student

Visiting from April – June 2023

E-Mail: elisa.mazzocato@studenti.unitn.it

Keywords: Curriculum studies, Education, Anthropocene, Hannah Arendt


Associate Professor
(Penn State at Harrisburg)

Visiting from May – June 2023

E-Mail:
hms22@psu.edu

Egidijus Mardosas

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Keywords: Anthropocene-Capitalocene debate, Metabolic Rift, Marxism, Ecology


Post-Doctoral Researcher
(Lithuania)

Visiting from 15 May – 13 June 2023

E-Mail:
egidijus.mardosas@fsf.vu.lt

Ángela López García

Portrait photo of Ángela López García

Keywords: Ecofeminism, North American Literature, Science Fiction Studies, U.S. Green Movement


PhD Student (Spain)

Visiting from June –
September 2023

E-Mail:
angela.lopez3@um.es 

Keywords: Ecocriticism, Contemporary Italian Literature, Anthropocene Literature, Catastrophe Literature


PhD Student (Venice)

Visiting in June 2023

E-Mail:
giulia.simeoni@unive.it

Keywords: German Literature, Literary Theory, Poetics of Knowledge, Diagrammatics


Post-Doctoral Researcher
(starting in July 2023)

Project 'Landscape, Life, Form – Anthropocene Poetics'

E-Mail: vera.thomann@ds.uzh.ch

Former Visiting Scholars


Guest Researcher invited by the Vienna Anthropocene Network

Keywords: Sociology, Technological Innovation, Environment and Culture


Professor in Sociology

Bowland College
Lancaster University
United Kingdom

Keywords: Literary Studies, Science Fiction, Future Imaginaries, Planetary Dystopia, Technosphere


Project 'Anthropocene World Literature'

Independent Scholar

(Department of German Studies
University of Vienna)

Keywords: Art History, Nature, Nonhuman, Landscape, Environmental emergency


Project 'EcoLandscapes'

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

(Department of German Studies
University of Vienna)