Julia Kuznetski
Professor of English
School of Humanities
Introduction
Julia Kuznetski (Tofantšuk) is Professor of English Studies at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, and Head of the English Language and Culture programme. Her research focuses on ecocriticism, ecofeminism, the blue humanities, crisis studies, and critical hope. She has published extensively in these fields and regularly contributes to media discussions on related topics. She is currently writing a monograph on water as an archive of memory. Kuznetski is a core researcher in the research project Memory and Environment: The Environmental Impact of Violent Histories in Transnational European Literature (PRG2592).
She teaches literature and literary theory at BA, MA, and PhD levels, including courses in world literature, research issues in literary studies, key concepts in cultural analysis, and ecocriticism. She supervises BA, MA, and doctoral theses in her areas of expertise.
Main tasks
Teching (lectures, seminars) of subjects related to Anglophone culture and literature; literatury theory; World literature; ecocriticism; undergraduate and postgraduate research;
supervision and reviewing of BA, MA and PhD theses
Academic research (articles, editing books and journal special issues, monographic writing), peer-reviews, writing a mongraph, presenting at conferneces, organising events and conference panels; regular research seminars in English studies
Administrative work: Head of English studies; member of School of Humanities reseach council; member of several strategic work groups and prfessional societies
Areas of research
Anglophone literature, contemporary literature, women writers
ecocriticism, ecofeminism, identity studies, crisis studies, critical hope studies
new materialism, posthumanism, decolonial studies, dystopia