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monika.szuba@ug.edu.pl
Monika Szuba is a professor of literature at the Institute of English and American studies at the University of Gdańsk. Her PhD (2009) investigated strategies of contestation in contemporary Scottish women’s writing. She was previously a Bednarowski Trust Fellow at the University of Aberdeen and was awarded the Saltire Scholarship at the University of Edinburgh. In 2021–22 she conducted interdisciplinary research as part of a National Science Centre grant (2020/04/X/HS2/00929). Her research is concerned with twentieth-century and contemporary literature informed by environmental humanities, with particular interest in phenomenology. Her previous book titled Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World takes a theoretically informed approach to the reading of the nonhuman world in the work of four poets that merges phenomenology and literary criticism. Her current book project, Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice, 1928–Present is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to situate Scottish authors in relation to their landscapes by investigating how the self is entwined in place.
RCC Research Project: Elemental Entanglements: A Study of Changing Environmental Landscapes in Scotland