
Julia Kuznetski
Professor of English
School of Humanities
S-553
+372 640 9320
julia.kuznetski@tlu.ee
by appointment via e-mail
Introduction
Julia Kuznetski (Tofant拧uk) is Professor of English at the School of Humanities at TLU. Her research and teaching interests include literary theory, film studies, literature by women, gender, identity and crisis studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, postcolonial theory, body, transcorporeality, diasporic and migrant literature, dystopia. She has published in Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang WV, VW Trier, Taylor and Francis journals on these issues. She has taught both practical English (up to C2+ level) and literature as well as literary theory (history of English literature, World literature, introduction to literary theory, key concepts in cultural analysis, methods in humanities, special courses on women writers and ecocriticism) on BA, MA and PhD level, supervised BA, MA and PhD theses and contributed to the development of BA, MA and PhD curricula.
She is a member of ESSE, FINSSE, ASLE, ICFA.
Main tasks
Teching (lectures, seminars) of subjects related to Anglophone culture and literature; literatury theory; World literature; ecocriticism; undergraduate research seminar;
supervision and reviewing of BA, MA and PhD theses
Academic research (articles, editing books and journal special issues), 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;
Areas of research
Anglophone literature, contemporary literature, women writers
ecocriticism, ecofeminism, gender studies, identity studies, crisis studies, postcolonial and diaspora literature
new materialism, posthumanism, dystopia