Anna Barcz

Participation in grants and led research projects (in bold):

1. Monstrous Rivers: Investigating the Environmental History of Modern European Floods through Literary Sources, National Centre of Science (NCN), PI (2024–2028).
2. Mapping the culture of Europe’s last coal basin, principal investigator: dr habil. Marta Tomczok (2025–2027).
3. Map for the Nation. Digital Edition of the “Charter of Former Poland” (“Karta Dawnej Polski”) by Wojciech Chrzanowski, principal investigator: dr Tomasz Panecki (2022–2024).
4. The Aquacritical Vistula: Environmental History, Literature, and Deep Mapping; National Centre of Science (NCN), PI (2020–2023).
5. Re-Indigenisation of Aquatic Cultures in Europe: Translating Rivers’ Voice; ISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups Award, PI (2021–2022).
6. Eco-Translation: A New Paradigm for the Post-Humanities; a pilot project led by Prof. Michael Cronin, Trinity College Dublin (2020–2022).
7. Socio-Cultural Constructions of Vulnerability and Resilience. German and Polish Perceptions of Threatening Aquatic Phenomena in Odra River Regions; National Centre of Science (NCN) in Poland and German Research Foundation (DFG), PI (2016–2018).
8. New Humanities Concept in the Critical Theory Institute (University of California, Irvine) Studies; National Programme for the Development of Humanities (2014–2019).
9. Animal Studies and Their Meaning for Culture Studies in Poland; National Centre of Science (NCN), PI (with dr D. Łagodzka), (2012–2015).
10. Animals, Culture, and Gender; Patterns Lectures; ERSTE Stiftung in Vienna, PI (with dr M. Dąbrowska) (2012–2014).
11. Geopoetics; National Programme for the Development of Humanities (2011–2014).

Member:

1. Eco-translation Network; European Society for Environmental History.

Membership on journal editorial boards:

1. Studia Geohistorica journal.

In media:

1. Historiography of rivers, Blue History Network Podcasts (2025). Here
2. “Mapping deeply the Isar River” (with dr P. Gruppuso), Rachel Carson Center (2023). Watch
3. Greenhouse online book talk, University of Stavanger (2021). Watch
4. Lecture “Rzeki w Antropocenie”, ASP Katowice (2021). Watch
5. Lecture “Literature and Environmental History” (2019). Watch

Monographs:

1. Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe: Literature, History and Memory, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2020.
2. Animal Narratives and Culture: Vulnerable Realism, CSP, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017.
3. Realizm ekologiczny. Od ekokrytyki do zookrytyki w literaturze polskiej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Śląsk, Katowice, 2016.

Articles and chapters:

1. ‘The Map of Old Wet Poland: Re-Storying Wetlands’, Polish Cartographical Review 57, 2025, 1, pp. 87–105, https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2025-0006 (Open Access).
2. ‘What the River Hide When They Flood: Aquagnosis as a Gateway in European Modernity’, Transpositiones 4, 2025, 2, pp. 11–28, https://doi.org/10.14220/trns.2025.4.2.11 (Open Access).
3. Aquatic Poland in humanities education: Gaps and challenges, in: Polish flows: An aqua-critical reading of cultural and educational narratives about rivers, eds. B. Niesporek-Szamburska, M. Wójcik-Dudek, M. Ochwat, Brill/V&R Press, Göttingen 2024, pp. 15–30 (Open Access).
4. Global Climate Realism in Blue Modern Europe, in: The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, eds. K. Bowers, M. Vaysman, Oxford University Press 2024, pp. 85–104.
5. [With M. Gromalą, P. Wacławik] ‘Aquacritical Vistula: the deep mapping of literary sources within the emerging historiography of flooding (1934)’, Water History 16, 2024, pp. 97–114, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-024-00345-6 (Open Access).
6. ‘The Vistula, Overgrown Shrubs, and Untended Gardens in the Literature of Postwar, Communist Warsaw’, Porównania 34, 2023, 2, pp. 139–152, https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2023.2.10 (Open Access).
7. [With M. Cronin] Eco-Translation and Inter-Species Communication in the Anthropocene, in: Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene, eds. S. E. Wilmer, A. Žukauskaitė, Edinburgh University Press, 2023, pp. 130–148.
8. ‘‘A River Speaks’. Translating Aquatic Voice and Re-Animation of Fluvial Monstrosities’, Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica 11, 2023, pp. 167–183, https://doi.org/10.24917/23534583.11.10 (Open Access).
9. [With T. Heimann, G. Christmann, K. Bembnista, P. Buchta-Bartodziej, A. Michalak] ‘The Discursive Embeddedness of Cultural Knowledge of Vulnerability and Resilience: Human-River Relationships in Literary Works, Public Media, and Local Actors’ Knowledge in German Polish River Regions’, Space and Culture 27, 2024, pp. 473–487, https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312211030827 (First published online 26.07.2021) (Open Access).
10. Human and Animal Portraits, or the Issue of Similarity After Darwin, in: Animals and Their People. Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies, eds. A. Barcz, D. Łagodzka, Brill, Leiden 2018, pp. 13–28, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004386228_003.
11. [With J. Płuciennik] ‘Post-pandemic Nature, Crisis, Catastrophes and Their Metaphorical Discourses’, Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich 64, 2021, 1, pp. 7–18, https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2021/64.1/1 (Open Access).
12. [With P. Buchta-Bartodziej, A. Michalak] ‘The Oder – a River that Floods: The Problem of Environmental Adaptation in Literary Texts’, Environmental Hazards 17, 2018, 3, pp. 251–267, https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2018.1436513.

Atlases:

1. [With P. Wacławik] Aquacritical Atlas of the River Vistula, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7414928 (Open Access).