Helena Fornells Nadal

email: h.fornells-nadal.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Research title: Provisional Title – Poetry and Land Reform: A New Ecopoetics for Scotland

Research Summary

Helena is working on a practice-based Interdisciplinary Studies PhD thesis between Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Social Sciences. The thesis will work at the intersection of land politics and ecopoetics, examining the relevance of socioeconomic and environmental impacts of land governance to aesthetic and cultural discourse in Scotland.

Supervisors

Conferences

Presenter:

  • 2024, September. 'Lyric Responsibility – A Land-Aware Ecopoetics'
    The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Postgraduate Conference: 'Arts of Noticing: Attention and the Environment'

Organiser:

  • 2024-25; 2025-26. Co-founder and co-organiser of the annual PGR conference at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Environmental Sustainability.  

Teaching

2024-25 Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Glasgow's School of Critical Studies, Level 1 course 'Poetry & Poetics'

Additional Information

PhD funded by a University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences PhD Scholarship