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Dr. Morgan Vanek

Dr. Morgan Vanek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. Her research and teaching interests include writing about weather and climate in British literature of the long eighteenth century, early Canadian literature, travel writing, ecocriticism, and the history and philosophy of science. She is currently at work on her first book, Changeable Conditions: The Politics of the Weather in Transatlantic Literature, 1660-1800. Her work, including some of her research towards this book, has been published in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2015), Literature Compass (2015), Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2016), Eighteenth-Century Studies (2020), Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2020), and Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en Littérature Canadienne (2021), and as part of a Cambridge Critical Concepts volume on Climate and Literature (2019).

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