Rate My Professor Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Her major publications include the monograph The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2010), which examines gender, race, and sexuality in works by Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, James, and Gilman, and Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II (2020), analyzing melodrama, adventure, and horror formulas in war stories. She co-edited Neoliberal Gothic: International Gothic in the Neoliberal Age and The Ecological Future with Christian Arnsperger. Recent articles cover topics such as ecogothic in films, war gothic, and haunted nature. Soltysik Monnet received the Russel B. Nye Award for Outstanding Article in the Journal of Popular Culture for “American War Adventure and the Generic Pleasures of Military Violence: Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper” (2018). She has organized conferences like “Writing Contemporary Wars and Contemporary Militaries” (2022) and “Narratives of (Un)Sustainability” (2019), and delivered numerous invited keynotes on war gothic, psychedelics in literature, and ecological imagination at institutions including the International Gothic Association, University of Lodz, and Free University of Berlin. She serves on editorial boards for Horror Studies, American Gothic Studies Journal, and Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, and the Scientific Committee of PSYCHE, UNIL-CHUV.