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Anita Girvan: Teaching Interview
The interview was conducted by undergraduate research assistant Fyza Azam. Fyza Azam: Could you tell me about a course you teach that addresses racialized ecologies? Anita Girvan: Sure, basically all my courses do, but I’m going to stick to “Environmental Justice and Gender.” It addresses racialized ecologies in terms of who bears the brunt of…
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Susie O’Brien: Teaching Interview
The interview was conducted by undergraduate research assistant Fyza Azam. Fyza Azam: To begin, could you tell me about a course you teach that addresses racialized ecologies? Susie O’Brien: Yes. It’s a first-year cultural studies course called “Studying Culture: A Critical Introduction.” The course addresses the entanglement of environment and culture and emphasizes the material…
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Ways of Reading Racialized Ecologies 2 | American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Seminar | Palais des congrès de Montréal | February 27 – March 1, 2026.
Jump To Seminar Schedule Abstract Building on a stimulating seminar at ACLA 2024, and amidst dramatically shifting geopolitical contexts, this seminar will probe methods of reading that illuminate and disrupt escalating climate change and ecological loss by focusing on race and racialization. A photographic series of eroding Ghanaian coastlines framed by doors conjuring the violent passage…
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“‘the uncleanness of my dark skin’: Toxic Burdens, Brown Embodiment, and Latinx-Indigenous Relationality in Rebecca Salazar’s sulphurtongue” By Tania Aguila-Way
ABSTRACT This paper examines how the relationship between race and ecology is materialized in Rebecca Salazar’s poetry collection sulphurtongue, which takes the point of view of a second generation queer Latinx speaker who grew up in Sudbury, Ontario. I argue that sulphurtongue constructs a poetics of synaesthesia in which mundane moments of embodied noticing reveal environmental, transnational, and…
