Visiting Scholars
Current and former visiting scholars at the Vienna Anthropocene Network
Visiting Scholars (Summer Term 2023)
Elisa Mazzocato
Elisa Mazzocato
Keywords: Literary Criticism, Ecocriticism, Modern German Literature, Anthropocene Literature
Erasmus exchange student
Visiting from April – June 2023
Hannah Spector
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
Egidijus Mardosas
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
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
Giulia Simeoni
Keywords: Ecocriticism, Contemporary Italian Literature, Anthropocene Literature, Catastrophe Literature
PhD Student (Venice)
Visiting in June 2023
E-Mail:
giulia.simeoni@unive.it
Vera Thomann
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
Prof. Bronislaw Szerszinsky
Guest Researcher invited by the Vienna Anthropocene Network
Keywords: Sociology, Technological Innovation, Environment and Culture
Professor in Sociology
Bowland College
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
Johannes D. Kaminski, PhD
Keywords: Literary Studies, Science Fiction, Future Imaginaries, Planetary Dystopia, Technosphere
Project 'Anthropocene World Literature'
Independent Scholar
(Department of German Studies
University of Vienna)
Olga A. Smith, PhD
Keywords: Art History, Nature, Nonhuman, Landscape, Environmental emergency
Project 'EcoLandscapes'
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
(Department of German Studies
University of Vienna)