JULIA KUZNETSKI
Julia Kuznetski (Tofantšuk) is a Professor of English at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. Among the topics of her international publications are present-day Anglophone literature and culture, gender studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, diaspora and migration literature as well as literary theory. She is the author of a number of publications in these areas, including: a co-edited volume (with Silvia Pellicer-Ortín) titled Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (Routledge, 2019); a special journal issue of Women: A Cultural Review entitled “We Too”: Female Voices in the Transnational Era of Crises, Migration, Pandemic and Climate Change” (forthcoming, 2023); The Routledge Companion to Literature and Crisis (with Silvia Pellicer-Ortín and Chiara Battisti); and articles such as “Precarious times, Neoliberalist Backlashes and Discourses of Post-Truth in Ali Smith’s Summer“ (EJES 2022), “Disempowerment and Bodily Agency in Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and The Handmaid’s Tale TV Series” (The European Legacy 2021), “Transcorporeality, Fluidity and Transanimality in Monique Roffey’s Novel Archipelago“ (Routledge 2020) and “Estonian Literature and Ecofeminism” (with Kadri Tüür, in The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature 2022). Kuznetski is a member of several professional societies (ESSE, FINSSE, ASLE) and a founding member of the gender studies research group at Tallinn University.