Maya Hollander
DPhil Candidate
Exeter College
Thesis Title: New Adams and Eves: The Genesis Creation Narrative in Post-Apocalyptic American Fiction
Supervisor: Dr Nicole King
Research Interests: modern and contemporary American literature; biblical reception; film; ecocriticism and ecofeminism; science fiction; post-apocalyptic fiction.
Doctoral Research: My research focuses on the reception of the Genesis creation narrative in post-apocalyptic imaginings of America after 1945. I consider novels by George R. Stewart, Cormac McCarthy, Louise Erdrich, Angela Carter, Walter M. Miller Jr., Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and more.
Publications:
- “Plagues of Egypt | Literature.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, De Gruyter. Forthcoming in 2025.
- “‘Filming One Hand with the Other’: Agnès Varda’s Ecofeminist Gleaning.” Studies in Documentary Film, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2025.2457167.
- “A Prelapsarian Ustopia: Reversing the Genetic Fall in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy.” Margaret Atwood Studies, vol. 18, 2025.
