Visiting scholars

The Network for Environmental Humanities is committed to fostering cooperation with universities and research institutes around the world and welcomes visiting scholars – senior scholars, post-docs and PhD students.

Current

Ido Fuchs is a PhD Candidate in the Programme for Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. In addition to his doctoral dissertation, which examines the poetics of return in Palestinian literature, Fuchs is researching violence in Palestine/Israel in relation to discourses of the end of the world and ecological catastrophe. 

Anna Potoczny is a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her PhD research revolves around nonhuman sources of literary creativity with a focus on British modernist writing, specifically Virginia Woolf. Her overall research interests include posthumanist theory, modern and contemporary Anglophone literature(s), new materialism, and critical animal studies.

Kennedy Dragt is a an FSR-FNRS Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Her thesis, entitled “RELIC: Religion, Literature, and Climate”, is an in-depth study of contemporary literature that seeks to understand the role of religion and spirituality in the climate crisis. The research project describes and contextualizes religious beliefs, experiences, and practices found in climate writing as a way to map emerging forms of post-secular “crisis spirituality.”

Past

Deborah Schrijvers is an Ad Astra PhD Candidate at University College Dublin. Her thesis entitled “Decolonizing Extinction Narratives: Intersections of Race, Gender and Species in Contemporary Art and Film” explores extinction narratives and temporalities with an emphasis on gender, race and decolonisation through analyses of contemporary and transnational film and art. 

Ali Yiğit is an Assistant Professor at the Kırklareli University (Turkey). He is working on an essay-project entitled: “Neo-modern Self-destruction: The Interconnections between the Exploitation of Man and of Nature/Animals in Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo and Songbirds”. 

Aliaksandr Piahanau is a researcher from the KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden). His research focuses on the nexus between energy & geopolitics. In his new project (2023-26), together with Per Hogselius (PI) & Marta Musso, he will explore 'coal transnsationalism' in Europe in 1918-39. In particular, Aliaksandr will investigate how international experts, municipal actors and infrastructure engineers dealt with the fundamental dependence on coal as the main energy source in the interwar period. 

Dianora Hollmann is a PhD Candidate from Ca Foscari, Venice (Italy) and is interested in: ecosystem modelling as a novel theoretical framework in this field of studies, working at the intersection between ecology, natural sciences, and complexity.

Eliška Švarná is a PhD Candidate from Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic). In her PhD thesis, she deals with the "great water works of socialism" from the point of view of environmental history.

Eline Tabak is a PhD Candidate from Universities of Bristol and Bath Spa, Bristol (UK). She is a Visiting researcher at the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University & Research.