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

Current Research Projects

Rethinking Sustainability

Team partnership for developing cross-disciplinary approaches for a next-generation environmental humanities

South Asian Literature and Film in the Anthropocene

Seminar on South Asian literature and film in the Anthropocene, co-organized with Dr. Amit Baishya (U of Oklahoma) for the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting.

Post/Colonial Ports

Conference and edited collection considering port cities as spaces of encounter, conflict, and renewal between several communities

Storying the Plantation(ocene)

Ongoing research project considering how the legacy of plantation epistemologies and violence are made visible and critiqued through varied modes of storytelling

Greening Narrative

2014-2023 SSHRC Insight Grant funded project investigating the affordances of locative media for exploring ties between natural history, imperialism, and globalization