Marta Werbanowska is a postdoctoral fellow in American Literature and Culture at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary African American and Caribbean poetry, literatures of social and environmental justice, Black Studies, and Environmental Humanities. Her work has been published in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), the College Language Association Journal (CLAJ), and James Baldwin Review, among others. She is currently completing her first book manuscript, tentatively titled Vital Necessity: Ecological Thinking in Contemporary Black Poetry. She obtained her Ph.D. from Howard University in 2019, and was a Fulbright Scholar at UNC Charlotte in 2014-15.