Disruptive Encounters. Concepts of Care and Contamination out of Control. An Introduction

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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2024.15.2.5618

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Introduction to the guest edited section.

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Solvejg Nitzke, Ruhr-University Bochum

Dr. Solvejg Nitzke is currently interim professor for comparative literature at Ruhr-University Bochum. From 2017-2024 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Dresden, where she conducted the project "Making Kin with Trees/Fremde Verwandtschaft. Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume". She was part of the DFG-funded project “Climate’s Time” at the University of Vienna and earned her doctorate at Ruhr-University Bochum in 2015 with a thesis on the Tunguska-Event (“Die Produktion der Katastrophe. Das Tunguska-Ereignis und die Programme der Moderne” 2017). She published on topics ranging from catastrophe and post-apocalyptic narratives to climate in village stories and science-fiction, mountaineering narratives and the poetics of trees.

Svenja Engelmann-Kewitz, TU Dresden

Svenja Engelmann-Kewitz studied Comparative Literature and English and American Studies at Ruhr University Bochum (BA 2019, MA 2021). Since 2021, she is a research assistant at Dresden University of Technology, where she is pursuing her doctoral dissertation project. In her project, she investigates contemporary narratives of ice loss in the Arctic. Her research interests include ecocriticism, narratology, blue humanities, ice humanities, gender and ecofeminism and waste studies.

Kirsten Jüdt, TU Dresden

Kirsten Jüdt is a doctoral researcher at TU Dresden where she works in the interdisciplinary project “Disrupt!Research. Dynamic Collaboration under the Condition of Disruption”. She studied Comparative Literature and English/American Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) and English Literature & Drama Studies at Bath Spa University (England). In her dissertation project she investigates multimodal ecologies of contact scenes between the sciences and the arts.

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2024-10-30

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