Dr Zosia Kuczyńska

Early Career Teaching Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Contact details

Address

Street

50 George Square 2.32

City
Post code

Availability

  • My office hours are Wednesday 11.30-12.30 and 13.30 to 14.30.

Biography

Background

I am a writer and researcher whose current work explores queer archival praxis through creative-critical engagement.

Qualifications

PhD, 'Time and Space in the Plays of Brian Friel', Trinity College Dublin

MA English (Irish Writing), Queen's University Belfast

BA English Language and Literature, University of Oxford

Responsibilities & affiliations

Fellow of Advance HE

Undergraduate teaching

Contemporary British Drama

English Literature Dissertation

Literary Studies 1A

Reading Theory 2

Scottish Literature 2B

Postgraduate teaching

Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics

Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond

Research summary

  • Queer archival praxis
  • Queer artistic praxis
  • Collaborative artistic research
  • Contemporary Irish poetry
  • Contemporary queer writing
  • Brian Friel

Current research interests

Queer archival praxis | Queer artistic praxis | Collaborative artistic research | Contemporary Irish poetry | Contemporary queer writing

Past research interests

Brian Friel | Louis MacNeice

Past project grants

Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow (University College Dublin)

Monograph

Kuczyńska, Zosia, Brian Friel’s Models of Influence (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Kuczyńska, Zosia, ‘Inventing Archival Justice: Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE and/as Queer Archival Praxis’, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (Special Issue, ‘New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies’) [forthcoming 2025]

---, ‘‘Censorship Public and Censorship Private: Authority, Authenticity, and Acceptability in the Early Production History of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!’, Modern Drama [forthcoming 2025]

---, ‘“[A] disoriented vision of…fact”: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer’, Irish University Review 50.2 (November 2020): 319–336

---, ‘“Afterwards always came after before’: post-catastrophic space-time in the plays of Graves and MacNeice’, Gravesiana 4.1 (Summer 2014): 162–181

 

Book Chapters

Kuczyńska, Zosia, ‘Drag Lyric / Lyric Drag’, The Routledge Companion to Drag [forthcoming 2025]  

 

Poetry

Kuczyńska, Zosia, ‘Selected Poems’, Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry, ed. by Paul Maddern (Belfast: The Lifeboat Press, 2021), pp. 162–174.

---, ‘After the party’, Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surroundings, ed. by Pat Boran (Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2021)

---, With others in your absence (Birmingham: The Emma Press, 2021).

---, ‘Three Poems’, The White Review, Issue 27 (March 2020), pp. 79–84.

---, ‘The Gift Shop Elegies #9’, in We’ve Done Nothing Wrong We’ve Nothing to Hide: The Verve Anthology of Diversity Poems, ed. and intr. by Andrew McMillan (Exeter: Verve Poetry Press, 2020), pp. 57–61.

---, ‘Cliffhanger’, Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 129 (Winter 2019), p. 96.

---, ‘“No time to wait til her mouth can”’, in Happy Browsing: An Anthology in Praise of Bookfinders (Belfast: The Lifeboat Press, 2018), p. 65

---, ‘On Woolacombe Beach’, The Tangerine, Issue 5 (Spring 2018), p. 28.

---, Pisanki, intr. by Bernard O’Donoghue (Birmingham: The Emma Press, 2017).

 

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