Professor Dr. Martin Schauss
Assistant Professor
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Biography
Joined University of Glasgow in September 2024 as a Lecturer in Comparative Literature. Previously held an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on Twentieth Century Literature. Spent a year as an IRC postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin under the mentorship of Dr. Sharae Deckard, working on intermedial ecopoetics. Additionally, had a short teaching stint at Glasgow School of Art and a longer stint as a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Warwick, where completed a doctoral thesis on Comparative Literary Studies focusing on Samuel Beckett and W.G. Sebald. Currently, he has a monograph based on his thesis titled 'Forsaken Things: Politics of the Nonhuman in Beckett, Sebald, and Tokarczuk' under contract with De Gruyter. His research interests include twentieth-century and contemporary literatures and cultures, with a focus on ecology, energy, waste, and resources. He examines the materiality of texts and ecological concepts in cultural production, emphasizing the relationship between literature and ecological issues. His current explorations include intermedial writing practices within the context of ecopoetics and the study of energy infrastructures in video games.