Veronica Fibisan

BA, MA

School of English

Research Student

vfibisan1@sheffield.ac.uk
Qualifications
  • MA English Literature, University of Sheffield, 2013;
  • BA English Language and Literature, French Language and Literature, West University of Timișoara, 2011
Research interests
  • Ecocriticism
  • Ecofeminism
  • Radical Landscape Poetry
  • The Anthopocene
  • Coastal Landscapes

Veronica Fibisan's research is a practice-based creative project. She is exploring key sites on the British shoreline through the practical medium of poetry and the theoretical lens of ecocriticism.

The interaction between the human and more than human world at the periphery of the land, in light of current anthropogenic environmental issues is at the forefront of our understanding of positive changes that would benefit both worlds in the future.

The power of poetry to become an outstanding contributor to the understanding of anthropogenic environmental change in a landscape where it is becoming most evident.

Research group

Supervisors:

  • Prof. Adam Piette
  • Dr Agnes Lehoczky
Teaching activities
  • LIT109 Introduction to Creative Writing
Professional activities and memberships

Conference Organisation:

  • ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference, Orkney (in collaboration with the Orkney International Science Festival), forthcoming September 2018
  • ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference Cross-Multi-Inter-Trans, Sheffield Hallam University, 6-8th of September 2017
  •  The School of English Postgraduate Colloquium Silence, The University of Sheffield, 2nd of June 2016

Workshops:

  • SHSU Postgraduate Research Conference Event- Poetry of Separations and Endings, Sheffield, June 2017
  • Northern Animals Workshop, The University of Sheffield, April 2017
  • Visions of Nature in a World of 10 billion, The University of Sheffield, February 2017
  • CoCoast Project and Training Day, The University of Hull- Scarborough Campus, December 2016
  • Conserving, British Animal Studies Network, The University of Sheffield, November 2016
  • ArtSPEAK/ArtWORK workshop, Discovery Centre, Cleethorpes, September 2016
  • Poetry, Creativity and Environment, The University of Leeds, February 2016

Editorial Work:

  • Route 57, poetry section, 2011-2017

Roles:

  • ASLE-UKI-Postgraduate Representative
  • MCS-UK- Beachwatch Volunteer

Memberships:

  • ASLE-UKI - Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
  • MBA - The Marine Biological Association
  • EASLCE - European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment
  • MCS-UK - Marine Conservation Society
  • BSLS – The British Society for Literature and Science
  • Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre
Publications

Book Reviews

  • Veronica Fibisan, review of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, forthcoming 2017
  • Veronica Fibisan, review of Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times, Kate Rigby, Ecozon@, European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment, forthcoming 2018
  • Veronica Fibisan, review of The Anthropocene Lyric: an Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place, Tom Bristow, The British Society for Literature and Science, 2017

Poetry

  • EAF ‘ASLE-UKI’ Pamphlet, 2017
  • ‘Plumwood Mountain Journal’, vol. 4 nr. 1, 2017
  • ‘HVTN’ Journal, vol. 2, nr. 1, 2016
  • ‘CAST The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets’, 2014
  • ‘The Sheffield Anthology’, 2012
  • ‘Wordwards’ Pamphlet, a publication of ‘The University of Sheffield’ featuring poems on Sheffield, 2012
  • ‘Now Then’, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • ‘Route 57’, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Conference Papers

  • ‘ Radical Landscape Poetry between Land and Sea- Mark Dickinson’s Littoral’, ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference C-M-I-T, Sheffield Hallam University, 6-8th of September 2017
  • ‘Radical Landscape Poetry between Land and Sea’, ECR Study Day on Landscapes and Identities, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 3rd of August 2017
  • ‘Coastal Climate Change in Alice Oswald’s Dart and Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker’s behind: land’, Mediating Climate Change Conference, The University of Leeds, 4-6th of July 2017
  •  ‘Radical Landscape Poetry between Land and Sea – Mark Dickinson’s Littoral’ Tensions, The University of Sheffield, 6th of June 2017
  • ‘Coastal Landscape in the Anthropocene: Capturing the Wild in Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker’s behind: land and Harriet Tarlo’s Coast’, The Future of Wild Europe Conference, The University of Leeds, 11-14th of September 2016
  • ‘Coastal Radical Landscape in the Anthropocene: Witnessing Wildness in Harriet Tarlo and Wendy Mulford’, ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference Change of Scene, The University of Lincoln, 31st of August- 2nd of September 2016
  • ‘Soundscapes and Silence: Perceptions of the Shoreline in Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker’s behind: land’, The School of English Postgraduate Colloquium Silence, The University of Sheffield, 2nd of June 2016
  • ‘Up North Sea Lane: Ecofeminism, Identity and the Coastline in Harriet Tarlo’s Radical Landscape Poems’, Landscaping Change Conference, Bath Spa University, 29-31st of March 2016
  • ‘Contemporary Ecofeminism: A Matter of Land’, Matter Matters- A Land2 Event, The University of Leeds, 12-13th of November 2015
  • ‘The Green Zone: Avant-garde Explorations of the Shoreline through a Radical Landscape Approach’, ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference Green Knowledge, The University of Cambridge, 2-4th of September 2015
  • ‘Where the Shadow Falls onto the Sea: Peripheries of Identity on the British Shoreline’, The School of English Postgraduate Colloquium Space and Place, The University of Sheffield, 28th of May, 2015