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Below is a list of current teaching and research interests in the environmental humanities, American literature, environmental studies, and animal studies.


“The Animal Turn”
English and Environmental Studies GA 1957.002, Fall 2017
(co-taught with Una Chaudhuri)

Environmental Justice Literature
Environmental and Animal Studies 600, Spring 2017

Being Vegan: The Literature of Environmental Justice
Environmental Studies and Comparative Literature 800, Spring 2016

Gender and Consumption: Feminism and Animals
Women’s and Gender Studies 317, Spring 2014

Thinking Bodies: Animal and Human Bodies
Women’s and Gender Studies 490, Spring 2014

Literature, Gender, and Environmental Justice
Women’s and Gender Studies 490, Fall 2013

Gender and Consumption: Bodies at Risk
Women’s and Gender Studies 317, Spring 2013

Women and Society: Violence and War
Women’s and Gender Studies 101, Spring 2013

Feminist Perspectives: Food and the Environment
Women’s and Gender Studies 235, Fall 2012

Literature of War and Globalization
CCS Literature 111, Spring 2012

Global Contact / Warring Bodies
English 122GW, Spring 2012

The Politics of Consumption
CCS Literature 114, Winter 2012

Borderlands: American Literature and the Transnational Imaginary
CCS Literature 114, Fall 2011