Megan ZEITZ
Ms Megan ZEITZ
FNS Researcher
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Research Interests / Recherche
Megan holds a Bachelor's degree in English and history, and a Master’s degree in English, both from the University of Geneva. Her Master’s mémoire, “Season of Missed Time: Autumnal Aesthetics and Temporality of Suspension in British Romantic Writings (1815 - 1820)”—which was awarded the Marcel Compagnon Prize in the Western languages, literatures, and civilizations category in 2022—argues that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818), and John Keats's To Autumn (1820) use autumnal aesthetics as a means of responding to, and engaging with the temporality of acceleration and contingency, as well as the climate of elusiveness and uncertainty of the age 1815 – 1820.
Her current research focuses on the poetics of attention in Romantic loco-descriptive writings, in relation to environmental aesthetics, melancholy, and creativity, using ecocritical and phenomenological frameworks. She is also interested in Romantic afterlives in contemporary artforms and in social media content.
From 2018 to 2020, she worked as a tutor at the Writing Lab, and in the Autumn 2023 semester, she taught undergraduate academic essay-writing at the English Department of the University of Lausanne.
Publications
Marion Thain. “Le cosmopolitisme parnassien anglais: transnationalisme et forme poétique.” Traduit par Megan Zeitz. Théories du lyrique. Une anthologie de la critique mondiale de la poésie, sous la direction d'Antonio Rodriguez, Université de Lausanne, novembre 2021, https://lyricology.org/le-cosmopolitisme-parnassien-anglais-transnationalisme-et-forme-poetique/?lang=fr
Megan Zeitz. “Futurities of Reading? The Poetics of Popular Hermeneutics and Aesthetic Self-Narration on Instagram [summarized].” Newsletter of the English Department (NOTED), Spring 2021, pp. 30-32, https://www.unige.ch/lettres/angle/application/files/8816/1458/8006/2021_Spring_N.pdf
—. “‘Historic, side-long, implicating eyes’: Looking Back at Michael Field’s Aestheticist Lyric Poems [excerpted].” Newsletter of the English Department (NOTED), Spring 2022, pp. 23-32, https://www.unige.ch/lettres/angle/application/files/8716/4872/6901/2022_SpringN.pdf
Presentations and Conference Papers
“Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Romantic Landscape Aesthetics: Theory and Practice,” The British Association for Romantic Studies 2024 International Conference: Romantic Making and Unmaking, University of Glasgow, July 2024.
“Picturesque Tourism in the Lake District from William Wordsworth to Taylor Swift: Aesthetic Attention and Literary Legacy,” Wordsworth Summer Conference 2023, Rydal Hall (Cumbria, UK), August 2023.
“Master’s Mémoire in Progress,” Student Research Showcase, University of Geneva, October 2021.
Awards and Grants
Ena Wordsworth Bursary, Wordsworth Conference Foundation, bursary for postgraduate students working on Wordsworth or in the field of English Romanticism meant to help them meet the cost of attending the Wordsworth Summer Conference. Awarded April 2023.
Marcel Compagnon Prize, University of Geneva, monetary prize for best Master’s mémoire in the Western languages, literatures, and civilizations category. Awarded November 2022.
Community Service
Co-Editor/Graphic Designer, Noted: Newsletter of the English Department, University of Geneva (2021-2022)
Co-President/Community Manager/Graphic Designer, Association des Étudiant.e.s en Langue et Littératures Anglaises (AELLA), University of Geneva (2019-2022)
Master’s Students Representative, English Department Commission mixte, University of Geneva (2019-2021)
Community Manager/Graphic Designer/Board Member, Association des Étudiant.e.x.s en Lettres (AEL), University of Geneva (2018-2022)