CV

 education

• Grinnell College, BA (1997)
• Stanford University, PhD (2008)

academic appointments

• Professor, Effron Center for the Study of America and High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University (2021-present)
• Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (last rank), UCLA (2012-2020)
• Associate Director of Science, Technology and Society, Stanford University (2011-2012)
• Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon (2008-2012)

administrative and leadership experience

• Director, Environmental Studies Program, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton (2024-present)
• Director and P.I., Blue Lab, Princeton (2021-present)
• Faculty advisor, Transdisciplinary Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research and Creative Activities, UCLA (2020-2021)
• Faculty chair, Food Studies Minor, Undergraduate Education Initiatives, UCLA (2018-2021)
• Founding director, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), UCLA (2016-2020)
• Special Assistant for Strategic Initiatives, Coastlines and People, Vice Chancellor of Research and Creative Activities, UCLA (2018)
• Associate Director, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Stanford University (2011-2012)

books and edited volumes

• Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2025)
• Literature and Food Studies (Routledge, 2018)
• 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

• Blue Lab at Princeton
• UCLA Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)
• Play the LA River