Ana Mazza
Research title: Nigerian Cityscapes: Reading Ecosocial Damage in Anglophone Novels Since 1954
Research Summary
Current Thesis Title
Nigerian Cityscapes: An Ecocritical Reading of Violence and Justice in Anglophone Writing Since 1954
Supervisors
Grants
2021: College of Arts Collaborative Research Award. University of Glasgow. Awarded to the Moving the Centre organising committee for the hiring of BSL interpreters for the entire duration of the conference.
2019: College of Arts Postgraduate Scholarship. University of Glasgow. Full PhD scholarship covering both tuition and maintenance costs.
2017: Santander Scholarship. University of Glasgow. £5000 destined to cover part of tuition fees.
2012: Santander Scholarship. University of Glasgow. £1000 destined to cover part of accommodation costs.
Conference
2020-2021
Co-chair of the organising committee for Moving the Centre: Toward Radical Futures - Cross-Disciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference on Post/Decolonial and Global Studies - August 2021 (University of Glasgow, online).
2021
Speaker at the University of Glasgow College of Arts Annual Postgraduate Conference 2021, Metamorphosis: Transformations Across Time, Culture & Identity - June 2021 (online). Presented paper titled: 'Eco-Cultural Metamorphosis: Altered Nature and Transformed People in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat (1967)'.
2019-2020
Member of the organising committee for the University of Glasgow College of Arts Annual Postgraduate Conference 2020, Afterlives: Pasts, Presents and Futures of Arts and Cultures - July 2020 (online).
2018
Speaker at the Annual Research Conference of the Modern Languages Research Institute at Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Presentation of research findings within collaborative project.
Speaker at the British Shakespeare Association Annual Conference 2018: Shakespeare Studies Today, Queen’s University, Belfast. Presented paper titled ‘“Man and birds are fain of climbing high”: Human and Nonhuman Animals in 2 Henry VI’.
2015-2016
Speaker at the Annual Research Conference of the Modern Languages Research Institute at Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Presentation of research findings within collaborative project.
Teaching
2021-2022
GTA in English Literature:
- English Literature 2A: Writing Ecologies
2020-2021
GTA in English and Comparative Literature:
- English Literature 2A: Writing Ecologies
- Comparative Literature 1B: Heroic Women
Additional Information
Awards
2015: Honorary Merit Diploma for the degree of Certified Translator (Universidad del Salvador, Argentina)
2014: Highest Grade Average of the Year 2013 for the Licenciatura in English Language (Universidad del Salvador, Argentina)
2014: Honorary Merit Diploma for the degree of Licenciada in English Language (Universidad del Salvador, Argentina)
2012: Third Mention in the 10th Literary Contest organised by the School of Philosophy and Arts, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Affiliation
Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (CTPCBA) [Association of Certified Translators of the City of Buenos Aires]
2017-2018: British Shakespeare Association member
