Julia Siepak

Julia Siepak

Nicolaus Copernicus University

Julia Siepak is a doctoral candidate in literature at Interdisciplinary PhD School “Academia Copernicana,” Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. She graduated with both a BA and an MA in English Studies from NCU, Toruń, as well as with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies: English and Native American Studies from Southern Oregon University. Julia’s doctoral research pertains to the poetics of space emerging from the intersections of the feminine and the environmental in contemporary Indigenous North American fiction. Her research project was awarded a research grant by National Science Centre, Poland in 2020. 

Spaces of Degeneration and Resurgence in Katherena Vermette’s “The Break"