Wendy Anne Kopisch

studied French and German at Wadham College, Oxford, and completed her PhD in modern German literature at the Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, on the subject Nature Poetry and Ecological Crisis. New Challenges for a Troubled Genre, for which she was awarded a scholarship by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Her research interests include ecocriticism, globalisation discourse and translation theory. She holds a Diploma in Translation from the Chartered Institute of Linguists, London, and has worked as a research fellow and editor at the Georg Eckert Institute since January 2007.

Publications

• “Still Writing of the Linden Tree: The Role of Nature as Preserver of the Lyric in the Poetry of Meena Alexander” in: Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander, eds. Cynthia Leenerts and Lopamudra Basu, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.
• "'Verseuchte Metaphern' – Repräsentationen der Elbe als Zeichen der Zeit in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartslyrik" in: Wasser – Kultur – Ökologie. Beiträge zum Wandel im Umgang mit dem Wasser und zu seiner literarischen Imagination, eds. Axel Goodbody and Berbeli Wanning, Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2008: 217-238.
• "Judith Wright: 'Request to a Year'", "Judith Wright: 'Australia 1970'", "Robert Bridges: Biography" and Robert Bridges: 'London Snow'" in: Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry, ed. Rob Watson, New York: Facts on File, 2007.
• "Zwischen 'parenthensen des sandes': Die Wüste als literarischer Ort in den Gedichten Raoul Schrotts" in: TEXT + KRITIK, Zeitschrift für Literatur, Nr. 176: 2007.