Highlights
education
- Grinnell College, BA
- Stanford University, PhD
academic appointments
- Princeton University, Professor of American studies and environmental studies (2021-present)
- UCLA, Professor of English (last rank) (2012-2020)
- Stanford University, Associate Director of Science, Technology and Society (2011-2012)
- University of Oregon, Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Studies (2008-2012)
- UC Santa Barbara, Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2009)
books and edited volumes
- Novel Ecologies (The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2024)
- Literature and Food Studies (Routledge, 2017)
- Visualizing the Environment (Public Culture, 2014)
- Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food (Cambridge UP, 2013)
selected articles and essays
- "The Environmental Humanities Beyond Planetary Crisis" (2023)
- "Salvage, or What Remains" (2022)
- "Narrative and Environmental Innovation" (2021)
- "Wild Ecosystems, Culinary Abstractions and the Long Tails of Modernism" (2019)
- “Wily Ecologies: Comic Futures for American Environmentalism” (2018)
- “Open Source Foodways: Agricultural Commons and Participatory Art” (2016)
- “The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy” (2014)
creative practice and public work