Donna RobertsDonna Roberts is a scholar of Surrealism currently based at the University of Helsinki. After post-graduate studies at the University of Essex, working on the periodicals 'Documents' and 'Le Grand Jeu, ' she pursued post-doctoral work in Mexico City,and has since taught in Switzerland and been resident in Finland since 2011. Her travels have strongly oriented her interest into different conceptions and experiences of the natural world, which remains her primary research interest. She has published on such topics as Surrealist periodicals, the Grand Jeu, Czech Surrealism, Roger Caillois' writings on stones and insects, Surrealism and the philosophy of Henri Bergson, Surrealism and natural history, evolutionary theory and ecology. She is currently on the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Surrealism. Roberts' main area of research concerns the presence within Surrealism of historical discourses on nature. She is currently writing a monograph on Surrealism as a life philosophy which has both drawn on and opposed various discourses on nature that emerged out of the European Enlightenment and fed into literature, art, political theory, theories of evolution, and the contested domain of the human. Read More Read Less