Biography
Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square is an Assistant Professor in Literature, the Environment, and Climate Change at Mount Allison University. She received her PhD in English literature from the University of Oxford, after which she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manitoba (UM) and a Research Affiliate with the UM Institute for the Humanities. She has also taught English and Interdisciplinary courses at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in BC and recently finished two terms as an Assistant Professor in English literature at Bishop’s University in Quebec, where she taught courses on literature and the environment, ecocriticism, Austen and film, Gothic and Victorian literature, science fiction, Romantic poetry, children’s literature, women writers, and more. In April 2024, she received the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) Community Engagement and Involvement Teaching Award for her teaching at BU.
Bryn’s research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to fiction, imagination, empathy, and social and environmental justice, and the chapter she co-authored for the Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, “Climate Health Is Human Health: Working Through Eco-Anxiety with the Written Word in Print and Digital Media,” was published in August 2022. Bryn is also an editor for and contributor to Epilogue magazine and co-hosts The Brains & Banter Podcast and The EPRC Podcast.