Network Member Profiles
Anna Pilz, University College Cork
Biography
Anna Pilz is Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English at University College Cork where she is completing her first monograph, Trees, Inheritance and Estates in Irish Writing. The book uncovers a neglected field of nineteenth-century Irish environmental history. Focusing on cultural productions, it explores the role of trees and woodland as a nexus for colonial, literary and artistic debates about inheritance, dispossession, and ownership. She is also interested in creative methodologies in interdisciplinary research projects and has completed a Higher Diploma in Geographical Information Systems. Funded by the IRC's New Foundations Scheme, she is organiser of a one-day Workshop on 'Landscapes, Environment and Heritage in Irish Studies' in late September 2016 at UCC.
Contact
anna.pilz@ucc.ie
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Research Interests
Literary representations of woodland and trees - horticultural networks - Scottish-Irish-English comparative work - literary aesthetics and environmental history.
Themes
Earth, Water.
Selected Publications
Pilz, A. and Standlee, W. (eds) (2016), Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Pilz, A. and Tierney, A. (2015) Trees, Big House Culture, and the Irish Literary Revival, New Hibernia Review, 19 (2), 65-82.
Pilz, A. (2013) Lady Gregory's Fans: The Irish Protestant Landed Class and Negotiations of Power, In: O'Neill, C. (ed.), Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 185-196.