Dr Katarzyna Wi\u0119ckowska, prof. Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru\u0144 won a Corbridge Trust scholarship to conduct research at the University of Cambridge. The laureate’s stay at Robinson College will contribute to the implementation of a project devoted to the impact of climate change on contemporary English-language prose.<\/b><\/p>\n
The project aims to explore the vision of the future in 21st century novels by British authors – Jeanette Winterson, David Mitchell, Naomi Alderman, Liz Jensen, Maggie Gee and John Lanchester – from the perspective of posthuman research, new materialism and the ethics of care.<\/span><\/p>\n The Corbridge Fund was established in 1988 to celebrate the charities of Clifford and Mary Corbridge. Clifford Corbridge was a British engineer working in Poland before the war. His wife, Mary Corbridge, or rather Maria Patkaniowska, was a respected researcher of the English language. The purpose of the Fund is to sponsor scientific exchanges between Polish and British universities.<\/span><\/p>\n