Jonathan Sarfin
Jonathan Sarfin studied English Literature at the University of Kentucky (BA 2016) and the University of Bern (MA 2021). He is a PhD candidate in the SNF Sinergia project Mediating the Ecological Imperative, in the sub-project Ecological Imaginaries: Eco-Ekphrasis in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century North American Fiction.
Title of PhD Project
Description, Relation, and Rhetoric in Contemporary North American Climate Fiction (AT)
Research Foci
Aesthetics, description in 20th and 21st century North American fiction, intermediality and ekphrasis, landscape art, and ecological narrative