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/DPhil in English literature from the University of Oxford (UK) and has since worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manitoba, taught English and Interdisciplinary courses at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia, and worked as an Assistant Professor in English literature at Bishop’s University in Quebec, for which she received the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) Community Engagement and Involvement Teaching Award.
Her current research examines how literature intersects with ecology, neuroscience, and psychology, particularly focusing on representations of consciousness and neurodiversity in texts and exploring connections between literary works and climate activism. She has published articles on imagination, empathy, emotional contagion, and suicide in Romantic-era literature, and her most recent publication is a chapter she co-authored with Dr. Carol-Ann Farkas 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.”
Dr. Jones Square has two forthcoming book chapters, one titled “Kindling Connections: How Diverse Neural Networks Enhance Empathy and Creativity in Higher Education,” which will be published in Dr. Jessica Riddell’s Hope Circuits, and a chapter for The Routledge Companion to Mary Shelley entitled “Ecologies of Mind: Consciousness and the Natural World in Falkner.”