Research
My PhD project is placed in the intersection of unevenly distributed climate crisis, speculative fiction and feminist theory. My project investigates how new narrative structures arise in the face of climate breakdown, by looking at a wave of contemporary translated genrehybrid climate literature from Latin America and East Asia. My claim is that of these narratives utilize uncomfortable, negative affects, such as alienation, to create a more complex understanding of the often overlooked consequences of the climate crisis.
I also study how these books employ a novel combination of speculative genre conventions such as the gothic, horror and weird, as a response to a world on the verge of breakdown. I aim to show how these narratives position oppressive frameworks of capitalism, sexism and colonialism are the driving forces of the climate breakdown, hereby showing how the consequences of the crisis are felt unequally across the planet. Through the project I’m developing a method, planetary comparativism which reads books outside of their national frameworks and onto a planetary scale, allowing for juxtapositions and surprising connections. I also research on the contemporary conditions of translated fiction on the Anglophone book market, including social media.
I teach broadly on contemporary literature, literary genres, feminist theory and climate fiction. I have taught lectures on Latin American ecohorror, South Korean history and feminist speculative fiction, affect theory and planetarity, world literature and comparative methods.
I am always open for a chat - on collaborations, on research, on pursuing a PhD. Please do not hesitate to reach out at agb@cc.au.dk.
I am a part of the research programme Literary Cultures as well as the Research unit Entangled Colonialities Collective (ECC). I am also a meber of Centre for Environmental Humanities at Aarhus University and the nationwide research network Det Grønne Forskernetværk.
I have been a guest researcher at Linnæus University, at Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo).
I have held public talks on magical realism and literary translation, and my interviews with author Mariana Enriquez and literary translator Megan McDowell are published in World Literature Today
I have been an editor of the literary magazine Standart for several years, where I collaborate with researchers and writers, prepare theme issues (for example on the return of magic in literature) and write reviews, interviews and articles.
I have participated in conferences, and presented my research in Denmark, Italy, Sweden and Canada.
