Martin Schauss
Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: mschauss@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 2.06
21 Buccleuch Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Availability
Office hours: Tuesday 2-3pm
Room 2.06 21 Buccleuch Place (or online by appointment)
Please note: this building has no elevator or wheelchair access. Please email me to arrange an alternative meeting point if this affects you.
Background
Martin joined the department in Autumn 2021 after a postdoctoral research fellowship at University College Dublin. In his research, he is keen on teasing out the connections between literature, literary production, and ecology, and asks how we ‘read’ material environments, resources, and energy. He concentrates on twentieth-century and contemporary literatures with modernist, experimental, and/or intermedial bends, drawing on eco-materialist methodologies. He completed his PhD at the University of Warwick in 2019, writing on the politics of materiality in the works of Samuel Beckett and W.G. Sebald. For his monograph, he has expanded the scope of the research to compare the animal imaginaries and world-ecological narratives of Olga Tokarczuk. He is currently working on a new project, looking at experimental languages that have emerged as a response to the eco-political crisis, focusing on intermedial literatures by contemporary poets including Caroline Bergvall, Claudia Rankine, Renee Gladman, and Lisa Robertson.
CV
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Qualifications
Ph.D. University of Warwick, English & Comparative Literary Studies
M.A. University of Calgary, English
B.A. University of Strathclyde, English and Journalism/Creative Writing
Undergraduate teaching
Waste & Modernity: Dispatches from the Sewers of Literature
George Orwell and the Politics of Literature
Contemporary Scottish Fiction
Literary Studies 1A & 1B
Postgraduate teaching
Tragedy and Modernity
Research summary
Martin’s research ties together late modernist, experimental and intermedial forms of literature in the twentieth and twenty-first century with his interest in ecology, waste, resources, and energy. He explores how we ‘read’ materiality and the nonhuman in literature and how literary production can be considered as ‘ecological force’ within neoliberal capitalism’s ecological regimes.
Interests:
post-1945 and contemporary literatures
ecocriticism/environmental humanities/energy humanities
experimental and intermedial writing
global modernisms/avant-garde