Wendy Anne Kopisch

MA Oxon, DipTrans IoLET, originally from North London and resident in Germany since 2001, studied French and German at Wadham College, Oxford, specialising in nineteenth and twentieth century poetry with a study on Richard Wagner’s libretti. She was awarded a PhD scholarship by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and will soon complete her doctoral thesis at the University of Goettingen, Germany: Ecological Consciousness and Nature Poetry: New Challenges for a Misunderstood Genre. Her research interests focus on literary catastrophe discourse, ecocriticism and the literary relationship between ecological consciousness and globalisation; she has been a member of the Advisory Board of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) since May 2006. Wendy Anne Kopisch has worked as an English and French teacher in adult education and has given a seminar on modern nature poetry at the University of Goettingen. She holds a translation diploma 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.