
Dr Joanna Wilson-Scott - orcid.org/0000-0003-0748-2439
Susan Manning Fellow, October 2021 - July 2022
Home Institution: Bishop Grosseteste University
Joanna Wilson-Scott is a literary scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century anglophone fiction, with a keen interest in domestic Anthropocene narratives, coastal and island locales, and perforated landscapes. She has a background in Comparative Literature and Social Anthropology from University College London, and obtained her PhD in Literature from the University of Leicester in 2018, where she has also taught. In 2019 she was a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, researching the domestic effects of climate change in contemporary literature.
Following a recent publication in the journal ISLE on solastalgia and perforated landscapes in Australian literature, Joanna is presently working on a research piece on coastal erosion, as well as an article on Western extractivist practices and topographical porousness in the short stories of Eric Walrond, which directly feeds into the research she is conducting at the IASH. She is honoured to be named the Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and will be in residence from October 2021 until July 2022.
Project Title: Perforated Landscapes and Western Extractivist Practices in Island Literatures of the Global South
Joanna is researching and writing on perforated landscapes as expressions of western extractivist practices in postcolonial island literatures. Her project seeks to develop a robust understanding of the ways in which Western extractivism affects literary depictions of the geography and topography of the Global South, focusing particularly on the Caribbean and Oceania.
Recent Publications
Wilson-Scott, Joanna. 2021. “Environmentally Induced Distress: Solastalgia and the Perforated Australian Landscape in Shaun Prescott’s The Town”. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. doi: 10.1093/isle/isab003
Wilson-Scott, Joanna. 2021. “Accommodating the Anthropocene: The Home as a Site of Ecological Significance in Climate Fiction”. Green Letters. doi: 10.1080/14688417.2021.1886968