The end of the first quarter of the 21st century invites us to revisit what gender means in society and how it has shaped our literal and cultural landscapes. This volume seeks to explore these spaces from interdisciplinary perspectives.
The contributions span both highbrow art and popular culture, mapping interactions between gender and landscape as represented through numerous media. From urban to wild landscapes, distant planets, but also discursive practices, gendered domesticity, and the landscape of the body, the reader is invited to reflect on gender as a ubiquitous cultural marker.
While contributing to the growing body of work on gender, media, and landscape, the volume lays out a new groundwork for developments in interdisciplinary studies on gender and its possible futures.
Aleksandra Kamiska is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Pragmatics and Translation Theory in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her academic interests include contemporary British drama, ecocriticism, and translation theory.
Ewa Kowal is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She is the author The Image-Event in the Early Post-9/11 Novel: Literary Representations of Terror after September 11, 2001 (Jagiellonian UP, 2012) and The Post-Crash Decade of American Cinema: Wall Street, the Mancession and the Political Construction of Crisis (Jagiellonian UP, 2019), and the co-editor of The Many Meanings of Home: Cultural Representations of Housing across Media (Brill Fink, 2022). Her main research interests are feminist studies, gender studies, masculinities studies, housing studies, film, and comics.
Olga OToole is Assistant Lecturer at the Linguistics Department of the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She is the author of (De-)constructing Rape Culture and Victim Blaming Online (Peter Lang, 2025). Her academic interests include sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, gender studies, masculinities studies, and the sociology of sexuality.
