CURRICULUM VITAE DR ASTRID BRACKE a.bracke@let.ru.nl radboud.academia.edu/AstridBracke

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SPECIALISMS

Ecocriticism Literary theory Narratology Twentieth and twenty-first century British literature, including non-fiction Literature and photography The short story

EDUCATION 2008 2012 PhD in contemporary British literature. Department of English, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Supervisors: Prof dr Odin Dekkers; Dr Greg Garrard (Bath Spa University, UK) Examination committee: Prof dr Sofie Levie (Radboud University Nijmegen), Prof dr Dominic Head (University of Nottingham), Dr Maarten Depourcq (Radboud University Nijmegen). 2001 2005 MA English Language and Culture. Leiden University. Specialization: 19th and 20th-century British and American literature. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2013 present Lecturer. Department of English, University of Amsterdam. (0.2 fte) Courses taught:

English Research Seminar (BA 3). Responsibilities included planning courses and marking. BA thesis supervision. 2013 present Lecturer. Department of English, HAN University of Applied Sciences. (0.6 fte, replacement due to maternity leave) Courses taught: Young Adult Fiction (BA 2); Australian Literature (BA 1); American Culture (BA 1); Language Skills (BA 1); English Vocabulary (BA 1); Grammar (BA1); Responsibilities included lesson planning and marking. BA thesis supervision. 2012 present Lecturer. PGCE English HAN University of Applied Sciences.

CURRICULUM VITAE ASTRID BRACKE 2 (0.2 fte) Teaching (average student evaluation mark: 3.35 on 4-point scale)

Module convenor: o 17th and 18th-century British literature (MA); o 19th and 20th-century British literature (MA); o The English Novel (MA). 2009 present Lecturer. Department of English, Radboud University Nijmegen. (0.15 fte) Courses taught (average student evaluation mark: 4.4 on 5-point scale)

Module convenor o Empire & Beyond: Postcolonial Literatures in

English (BA 2/3); o Wuthering Heights (BA 2/3); o Introduction to Literary Studies (BA1); o British Modernist Fiction (BA2/3); o 18th and 17th-century British Literature in Context (BA2).

Other o Postcolonialism and Empire (MA). Responsibilities included lesson planning, devising exams and marking.

MA thesis supervision. 2009 2012 HE Teaching Qualification (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs) Radboud University Nijmegen. 2008 2010 Workshops and courses on presentation skills and literary studies. Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies. 2007 2009 Lecturer. Department of English, Leiden University. (0.2 fte) Teaching (average student evaluation mark: 4.3 on 5-point scale) Module convenor:

o Contemporary Literatures in English (BA3); o Contemporary British Literature (BA3).

Other: o British Literature 1660 1785 (BA1); o Basic Academic Skills (BA1). Responsibilities included lesson planning and marking.

Second reader MA thesis. 2005 2008 Workshops on tutorship, supervision and course development. InHolland University of Applied Sciences. 2005 2008 Lecturer. InHolland University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam. (0.8 fte) Teaching Module convenor:

o Grammar and Writing (BA1-4);

CURRICULUM VITAE ASTRID BRACKE 3 o Business English (BA1-4); o Legal English (BA2-4); o Cross Cultural Management (BA2-4);

Tutor year 1-3 Project and internship supervision.

RESEARCH Publications (* denotes invited publications) Monograph projects (in planning) More than Green: Contemporary Fiction and its Challenges to

Ecocriticism. Target publisher: University of Virginia Press 2012 Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. Dissertation Radboud University Nijmegen. Peer-reviewed journal articles (under review) Man is the story-telling animal: Narratives of Place in Graham Swifts Waterland and the Future of Ecocriticism. Under review with Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. 24 pp. (forthcoming) Solitaries, Outcasts and Doubles: the Fictional Oeuvre of John Burnside. English Studies. 22 pp. 2010 Redrawing the Boundaries of Ecocritical Practice. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 17.4: 765-68. 2010 Ecocriticism and English Studies: an Introduction (with Margurite Corporaal). English Studies 91.7: 709-12. Chapters in edited collections (forthcoming) * Anything that mattered couldnt be talked about in words: Language and Photography in John Burnsides Fiction. Collection of articles on John Burnside. Eds. Julika Griem and Helga Schwalm. 18 pp. (forthcoming) * The Contemporary English Novel and Its Challenges to Ecocriticism. The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. Ed. Greg Garrard. 24 pp. 2011 * Literatuur, Plaats en Plaatsverbondenheid: Graham Swifts Waterland. Filosofische Beschouwingen over Plaats. Verbondenheid met natuur en landschap. Zeist: KNNV Uitgeverij. 148-61.

CURRICULUM VITAE ASTRID BRACKE 4 Reviews 2012 Book review: Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby, Ecocritical Theory.

New European Approaches. Ecozon@. 3.2: 197-201. 2012 Book review: Timothy Clark, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment. Ecozon@ 3.1: 127-30. Articles in progress Ecocritical Approaches to the New Nature Writing. Green Letters. Estimated completion date: 15 June 2013. The Unseen Photograph in Fiction and Non-Fiction. Contemporary Literature. Estimated completion date: 15 September 2013.

Guest editorships 2013 Guest editor. Image & Narrative. 2010 Guest editor special Issue on Ecocriticism. English Studies 91.7. Funding Successful funding bids 2013 1000 received for conference organization (internal) 2012 1500 received for research visit UK (internal) 2011 1500 received for conference visit US (internal) 2010 2700 received for conference organization (internal) Unsuccessful funding bid 2013 Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni. Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Success rate: 11%. Awards 2012 PhD award for completion before the end of contract. Graduate School for the Humanities, Radboud University Nijmegen. Research environment 10/2013 Research visit. Ecocriticism and nature writing. University of Idaho. 2012 present Founding board member. Benelux Association for the Study of

Art, Culture and the Environment. Responsibilities: increasing visibility of the association, organizing events, establishing contacts with potential members, researching publication possibilities. 10/2012 Primary organizer international conference Worth a Thousand Words: At the Intersections of Literature and the Visual Arts. 24 26 October 2012. Radboud University Nijmegen.

CURRICULUM VITAE ASTRID BRACKE 5 04/2012 Research visit UK literature and photography (University of Durham; University of East London; Birkbeck University of London) 2010 present Assistant European Society for Periodical Research. Responsibilities: maintaining membership list and website. 01/2010 Primary organizer international conference New Grounds:

Ecocriticism, Globalization and Cultural Memory. 13 15 January 2010. Radboud University Nijmegen. 2009 2011 Member of postgraduate committee. Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies. Organizational and administrative tasks. 2006 Research assistant Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama, 1558 1642 by Dr Jan-Frans van Dijkhuizen. Department of English, Leiden University.

Selected conference papers (*denotes invited papers) 09/2013 Mammoths in Bond Street: Ecological Time in Virginia Woolfs Novels. Time and Temporality in European Modernism and the Avantgardes. KU Leuven. 08/2013 The New British Nature Writing: Forms, Themes and Ecocritical Approaches. ASLE-UKI Conference 2013. University of Sussex. 06/2013 The Unseen Photograph in Contemporary British Fiction. International Conference on Narrative 2013. Manchester Metropolitan University. 11/2012 * Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. BASCE meeting. Radboud University Nijmegen. 09/2011 * Language was too difficult: the Limits of Language and Non-Linguistic Forms of Expression in Burnsides Fiction. John Burnside Colloquium. Technische Universitt Darmstadt. 09/2010 Imagining Disaster: the Success and Failure of Apocalyptic Narratives. ASLE-UK/EASLCE Conference. Bath University. 06/2009 Ecocriticism and Cultural Memory. ASLE 2009 Conference. University of Victoria, Canada. 07/2008 Images of Post-Apocalyptic Nature in David Mitchells Cloud

Atlas. ASLE-UK 2008 Conference. University of Edinburgh. 06/2007 Escape or Warning? Environmental Concerns in Contemporary British Fiction. ASLE 2007 Conference. Wofford College, Spartanburg SC. 09/2006 The too-much loved earth: Human-Nonhuman Relations in A.S. Byatts Fiction. ASLE-UK Conference. University of Lincoln. 06/2006 Rooted to the Middle of the Earth: Crossing the Human-Nonhuman Boundary in Virginia Woolfs Novels. 16th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. University of Birmingham.

CURRICULUM VITAE ASTRID BRACKE 6 Professional Memberships

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture and the Environment. European Association for the Study of Art, Culture and the Environment. Society for Novel Studies. International Society for the Study of Narrative.

SERVICE 2012 present Staff member curriculum committee. PCGE, HAN University of Applied Sciences. 2012 Contributor student recruitment activities (lectures, open days). Department of English, Radboud University Nijmegen. 2011 present Advisor on American and British fiction. Dutch Foundation for Literature. Responsibilities: advising foundation on awarding grants to translators. 2011 2012 Convenor Best Practices sessions on teaching. Department of English, Radboud University Nijmegen. 2005 2006 Coordinator student recruitment activities (open days, campus visits, workshops). InHolland University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam.