Judyta Frodyma, SSRHC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
December 18, 2015
Judyta Frodyma, SSRHC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
BA Toronto, MSt and DPhil, Oxford
Dr. Judyta Frodyma is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UNBC, specialising in Literature and the Environment. She completed her DPhil (also funded by SSHRC) and MSt at the University of Oxford and her BA a the University of Toronto and the Sorbonne. A specialist in Romantic literature and landscape, her current research is on Ecology and the Nineteenth-Century Canadian Poetry, in particular turning to ideas of dwelling (Indigenous and non-) in the earliest 'Canadian' set of poets. She has taught courses on Wordsworth, Romantic-era writers, Milton, American Transcendentalism, Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Modernism, and the 20th Century American Novel. She has publications on Robert Lowth and Parallelism and on 'wilderness' in Wordsworth and Thoreau.. She completed her PhD dissertation on 'Wordsworth's Scriptural Topographies' and is currently reworking this into a monograph. Her broad interest lie in ecocriticism, Romanticism, religion and the King James Bible and the relationship between literature and ecology, with particular emphasis on phenomenological readings of landscape experience and on how humanistic geography shapes literature. In her spare time, she is a triathlete and long distance runner.
BA Toronto, MSt and DPhil, Oxford
Dr. Judyta Frodyma is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UNBC, specialising in Literature and the Environment. She completed her DPhil (also funded by SSHRC) and MSt at the University of Oxford and her BA a the University of Toronto and the Sorbonne. A specialist in Romantic literature and landscape, her current research is on Ecology and the Nineteenth-Century Canadian Poetry, in particular turning to ideas of dwelling (Indigenous and non-) in the earliest 'Canadian' set of poets. She has taught courses on Wordsworth, Romantic-era writers, Milton, American Transcendentalism, Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Modernism, and the 20th Century American Novel. She has publications on Robert Lowth and Parallelism and on 'wilderness' in Wordsworth and Thoreau.. She completed her PhD dissertation on 'Wordsworth's Scriptural Topographies' and is currently reworking this into a monograph. Her broad interest lie in ecocriticism, Romanticism, religion and the King James Bible and the relationship between literature and ecology, with particular emphasis on phenomenological readings of landscape experience and on how humanistic geography shapes literature. In her spare time, she is a triathlete and long distance runner.
