Network Member Profiles
Alison Lacivita, Trinity College, Dublin.
Biography
Alison Lacivita is from Troy, New York, earned her B.A. from Middlebury College (Vermont, USA) where she studied English with a minor in Environmental Studies. She earned her M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and is currently in the final year of her PhD at TCD in the School of English. Her PhD thesis provides an ecocritical approach to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Contact
lacivita@tcd.ie
Research Interests
Ecocriticism - Ecopedagogy - Nature Writing - Modernism - Romanticism - American Literature - Irish Literature - Travel Writing - Geography - Animal Studies - Urban Studies - Finnegans Wake - James Joyce.
Themes
Earth, Water.
Selected Publications
Lacivita, A. (2011) Review of, Cusick, C. (ed.), Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts, Cork University Press, 2010. Review published online by the Irish Environmental History Network, 13/05/2011.