Anna Barcz

Participation in grants and led research projects:

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

In media:

1. Mapping deeply the Isar River” (with dr P. Gruppuso), Rachel Carson Center (2023) Watch
2. Greenhouse online book talk, University of Stavanger (2021) Watch
3. Lecture “Literature and Environmental History” (2019) Watch

Atlases:

1. [With Paulina Waclawik] Aquacritical Atlas of the River Vistula. Zenodo (2022). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7414929

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. [With M. Gromala & P. Waclawik] ‘Aquacritical Vistula: the deep mapping of literary sources within the emerging historiography of flooding (1934)’, Water Hist, 16 (2024), pp. 97–114. OA
2. ‘The Vistula, Overgrown Shrubs, and Untended Gardens in the Literature of Postwar, Communist Warsaw’, Porównania, 34(2)/2023, pp. 139–152. OA
3. [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.
4. ‘”A River Speaks”. Translating Aquatic Voice and Re-Animation of Fluvial Monstrosities. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis’, Studia Poetica, 11, pp. 167–183. https://doi.org/10.24917/23534583.11.10
5. ‘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.
6. [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, SAGE online 26.07.2021, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F12063312211030827.
7. [With J. Płuciennik] ‘Post-pandemic Nature, Crisis, Catastrophes and Their Metaphorical Discourses’, Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 64 (2021), no 1, pp. 7–18.
8. [With P. Buchta-Bartodziej, A. Michalak] ‘The Oder – a River that Floods: The Problem of Environmental Adaptation in Literary Texts’, Environmental Hazards, vol. 17, no. 3 (2018), pp. 251–267.
9. ‘Zoöpolis – Rebordering the City’, in: Theory and Praxis as Challenges for Borderology: Events and Knowledge on the Border: Collection of scientific articles, ed. A. Sautkin, Murmansk Arctic State University, Murmansk, pp. 28–37.