About
I’m an Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Environmental Studies at Ramapo College.
From 2022-2024, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University.
I earned my interdisciplinary PhD in Environmental Studies and English from the University of Oregon in June 2022.
My research, teaching, and public writing disrupt liberal humanist projects that produce and legitimize violence toward vulnerable humans and nonhumans. My work demonstrates how contemporary literature, state policies, science, and technology produce injustices against multispecies communities and it considers how these sites might be reimagined to produce more just worlds.
Increasingly, this has involved conducting research with communities impacted by critical mineral mining and renewable energy development in the US South and West where human and nonhuman lives are at stake.
I engage a wide body of theory and methodology from the environmental humanities and social sciences, often placing fields in conversation with one another to identify shared concerns and approaches, and to develop lines of inquiry capable of addressing interdisciplinary problems. I draw upon bodies of scholarship that are invested in boundary crossing, resistance, and cultural formation, including feminist theory, environmental and ecological justice studies, autobiography studies, and multispecies studies.
Academic Training
2022
Ph.D.
Environmental Sciences, Studies, and PoliCy with an advanced certificate in the graduate Teaching Initiative, University of Oregon
2018
M.A.
English, university of Oregon
2016
B.A.