Rate My Professor Julian Kuzma

Julian Kuzma holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Otago, awarded in 2003. His doctoral thesis, titled 'Landscape, literature and identity: New Zealand late colonial literature as environmental text, 1890-1921,' was supervised by Tom Brooking and Lawrence Jones from the History and English Departments. The work examines New Zealand late colonial literature as an environmental text, focusing on themes of landscape, identity, and transformation during the period. During his doctoral studies, Kuzma published 'New Zealand Landscape and Literature, 1890-1925' in the journal Environment and History. In the article, affiliated with the History and English Departments at the University of Otago, he asserts that New Zealand literature from 1890 to 1925 provides a wealth of unparalleled information for environmental historians. A central theme is the removal of indigenous bush and its conversion into a British-modelled pastoral paradise. The era's poetry and fiction reveal perceptions and attitudes toward this environmental change that other documentary sources do not convey.