Zeitz Megan

Zeitz Megan

email : Megan.Zeitz@unil.ch ORCID record : https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0356-5517 Faculté des lettres Section d'anglais Position(s): Chargée de cours Section d'anglais Quartier UNIL-Chamberonne Bâtiment Anthropole CH - 1015 Lausanne

Keywords

19th century literature and culture
British Romanticism
Ecocriticism
English literature
Environmental aesthetics
Environmental Humanities
Gender studies
Literary history
Long-18th century literature and culture
Lyric poetry
Queer Theory
Romantic afterlives
The novel

Scientific distinctions and prizes

Prix Marcel Compagnon des langues, littératures et civilisations occidentales 2022
My Master's thesis, "Season of Missed Time: Autumnal Aesthetics and Temporality of Suspension in British Romantic Writings (1815 - 1820)," was awarded the Marcel Compagnon Prize in the Western languages, literatures, and civilizations category.

Ena Wordsworth Bursary 2023
I was granted this bursary by the Wordsworth Conference Foundation in order to attend the 2023 edition of the Wordsworth Summer Conference.

Megan holds a Master’s degree in English language and literature from the University of Geneva. She will likely begin a PhD at the University of Oxford in the Fall of 2024. She specializes in British Romantic literature and her main research interest lies at the intersection of ecocriticism, New Historicism, phenomenology, and the politics of environmental aesthetics in Romantic writings, especially in novels, lyric poetry, letters, and travelogues. Her current research, which will drive her PhD thesis, focuses on the poetics of attention, awareness, and mindfulness in Romantic loco-descriptive writings, in relation to melancholy, creativity, and environmental aesthetics.