Allison Carruth is Professor of American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, where she directs the Program in Environmental Studies and is co-founder and director of Blue Lab, an environmental storytelling and media production studio.

For over a decade, her research and creative practice have bridged ideas from and reimagined the boundaries between the environmental arts, humanities and sciences. From 2016-2020, she was the founding director of UCLA’s Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS). While leading LENS, she was an executive producer/producer of an environmental series featuring original essays and documentary films, developed in partnership with KCET, the country’s largest public media outlet. She is the author of three books: Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food (Cambridge 2013), Literature and Food Studies with Amy L. Tigner (Routledge 2018), and Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (University of Chicago Press 2025). Her articles have appeared in American Literary History, ASAP/Journal, Modernism/ modernity, npj: Climate Action, Public Culture, Public Books and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, among other venues.

Her areas of research, writing and creative practice currently include environmental media, climate storytelling, the environmental narratives and impacts of tech, blue humanities and ocean and coastal environmental futures (with a focus on the Eastern Pacific and California.