Highlights
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) | Executive Committee Member in the Center for Digital Humanities and the Program in Journalism
- 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, release date 3.5.25)
- 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
sole author unless otherwise indicated
- Soriano, M, P Jaojoco, B Carroll, R Maxwell, and A Carruth. “Public discourses and personal narratives of learning from disaster,” njp Climate Action. (accepted and forthcoming)
- "The Environmental Humanities Beyond Planetary Crisis," Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 10.1-2: 10-14 (2023).
- "Salvage, or What Remains", ASAP Forum (2022)
- "Narrative and Environmental Innovation," in The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, eds. Jeffrey Cohen and Stephanie Foote, Cambridge UP, 86-99 (2021)
- "Wild Ecosystems, Culinary Abstractions and the Long Tails of Modernism," Modernism/modernity Print Plus 4.2 (2019)
- “Wily Ecologies: Comic Futures for American Environmentalism,” American Literary History 30.1: 108-133 (2018)
- “Open Source Foodways: Agricultural Commons and Participatory Art”, ASAP/Journal 1.1: 95-122(2016)
- “The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy”, Public Culture 26.2: 205-211(2014)
creative practice and public work