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.

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(0.2 fte)

2009 present

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). 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. HE Teaching Qualification (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs) Radboud University Nijmegen. Workshops and courses on presentation skills and literary studies. Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies. Lecturer. Department of English, Leiden University.
(0.2 fte)

2009 2012 2008 2010 2007 2009

2005 2008 2005 2008

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. Workshops on tutorship, supervision and course development. InHolland University of Applied Sciences. Lecturer. InHolland University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam.
(0.8 fte)

Teaching Module convenor: o Grammar and Writing (BA1-4);

CURRICULUM VITAE ASTRID BRACKE 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 Reviews 2012 2012 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.

Book review: Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby, Ecocritical Theory. New European Approaches. Ecozon@. 3.2: 197-201. Book review: Timothy Clark, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment. Ecozon@ 3.1: 127-30.

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 04/2012 2010 present 01/2010 2009 2011 2006 Research visit UK literature and photography (University of Durham; University of East London; Birkbeck University of London) Assistant European Society for Periodical Research. Responsibilities: maintaining membership list and website.

Primary organizer international conference New Grounds: Ecocriticism, Globalization and Cultural Memory. 13 15 January 2010. Radboud University Nijmegen. Member of postgraduate committee. Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies. Organizational and administrative tasks. 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 08/2013 06/2013 11/2012 09/2011 09/2010 06/2009 07/2008 06/2007 09/2006 06/2006

Mammoths in Bond Street: Ecological Time in Virginia Woolfs Novels. Time and Temporality in European Modernism and the Avantgardes. KU Leuven. The New British Nature Writing: Forms, Themes and Ecocritical Approaches. ASLE-UKI Conference 2013. University of Sussex. The Unseen Photograph in Contemporary British Fiction. International Conference on Narrative 2013. Manchester Metropolitan University. * Ecocriticism and the Contemporary British Novel. BASCE meeting. Radboud University Nijmegen. * Language was too difficult: the Limits of Language and Non- Linguistic Forms of Expression in Burnsides Fiction. John Burnside Colloquium. Technische Universitt Darmstadt. Imagining Disaster: the Success and Failure of Apocalyptic Narratives. ASLE-UK/EASLCE Conference. Bath University. Ecocriticism and Cultural Memory. ASLE 2009 Conference. University of Victoria, Canada. Images of Post-Apocalyptic Nature in David Mitchells Cloud Atlas. ASLE-UK 2008 Conference. University of Edinburgh. Escape or Warning? Environmental Concerns in Contemporary British Fiction. ASLE 2007 Conference. Wofford College, Spartanburg SC. The too-much loved earth: Human-Nonhuman Relations in A.S. Byatts Fiction. ASLE-UK Conference. University of Lincoln. 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.

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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.