How does our understanding of “the human” have to change to account for our unevenly distributed geological agency?

Anthropocene / Representation / Narrative

Jill Didur is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of critical Anthropocene studies, the environmental humanities, and postcolonial studies. She studies the potentiality of language, narrative, aesthetic forms, and digital and material culture to redirect the culturally embedded positionality of ‘the human’ in the epoch of the Anthropocene.

She is a Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal, as well as the Co-Director of the Speculative Life Research Cluster, at the Milieux Institute.

CURRENT RESEARCH

New and ongoing research projects and collaborations

WRITING

Research on how literature & culture mediate our understanding of human-induced climate change

RESEARCH-CREATION

Site-specific locative media & art exploring the relation of colonialism, green spaces, and the Anthropocene

CRITICAL ANTHROPOCENE RESEARCH GROUP (CARG)

Research projects & collaborations investigating the challenge of representing the Anthropocene

SUPERVISIONS AND TEACHING

Postdoc, PhD, & MA supervisions