Publications and creative projects

PUBLICATIONS
sole author unless otherwise indicated

Books

• Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech, University of Chicago Press, 2025.
• Literature and Food Studies, co-authored with Amy L. Tigner, Routledge, 2018.
• Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Edited Volumes

• Carruth, A. and Jayme Collins, eds. “Polar Archives, Arctic Media and the Climatic Upheavals of Ice,” special stream, Media + Environment, forthcoming.
• Kyra Morris, Encounters at the Margins, an original short essay series, edited by A Carruth, designed by Barron Bixler, published by Blue Lab, Princeton University, 2025.
• Food Futures, web essay series, lead created and edited by A Carruth, coedited by Jon Christensen and Ursula K. Heise, produced by UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), published by KCET/PBS SoCal (2018).
• Taylor Yard: A Green Metropolis, web essay series, lead created and edited by Jon Christensen, coedited by A Carruth and Ursula K. Heise, produced by UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), published by KCET/PBS SoCal. Cross-publication of select essays on CityLab, Wired, Mother Jones (2018).
• Urban Ark Los Angeles, web essay series, lead created and edited by Ursula K. Heise, coedited by A Carruth and Jon Christensen, produced by UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), published by KCET/PBS SoCal (2018).
• Carruth, A. and Robert P. Marzec, eds. Visualizing the Environment, Special Issue of Public Culture 26.2 (2014).
• Heise, Ursula K. and A Carruth, eds. Environmental Humanities, Special Issue of American Book Review (2011).

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

• Bixler, Barron and A Carruth. "Ecomedia in practice: A training ground for future environmental storytellers," in a special on "Futures of environmental media publishing," eds. Lisa Han and Rachel Jekanowski, Journal of Environmental Media (2026).
• Soriano, Mario, Patrick Jaojoco, Braedeb Carroll, Reed Maxwell and A Carruth. "Public discourses and personal narratives of learning from disaster," njp: Climate Action 4.20 (2025)
• “Environmental humanities beyond planetary crisis,” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities (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: Cambridge UP, 2021, 86-99.
• “Modernism and Gastronomy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food, ed. J. Michelle Coghlan, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020.
• Wild Ecosystems, Culinary Abstractions and the Long Tails of Modernism,” Modernism/ modernity Print Plus, 4.2 (2019).
• “Avant-Garde Food Writing, Modernist Cuisine,” in Food and Literature, ed. Gitanjali G. Shahani, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018, pp. 220-236.
• “Wily Ecologies: Comic Futures for American Environmentalism,” American Literary History, published online December 2017, in print 30.1 (2018): 103-133. [Project Muse article link]
• “Slow Food, Low Tech: Environmental Narratives of Agribusiness and Its Alternatives,” in The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, eds. Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen and Michelle Nieman, London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 313-322.
• “Ecological Media Studies and the Matter of Digital Technologies,” PMLA, Eco-DH special cluster 131.2 (2016): 364-372.
• “Open Source Foodways: Agricultural Commons and Participatory Art,” ASAP Journal 1.1 (2016): 95-122. [PDF—Published Version, journal made this issue open access]
• Cleveland, David A., A Carruth and DN Mazaroli. “Operationalizing local food: Goals, actions and indicators for alternative food systems,” Agriculture & Human Values  32.2 (2015): 281-297.
• “The Green Avant-Garde,” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 2.1 (2014); Translated into Russian and reprinted as “Аллисон Каррут: Зеленый авангард: хакеры питания и кибераграрии,” Moscow Art Journal (2017).
• Carruth, A. and Robert P. Marzec. “Environmental Visualization in the Anthropocene: Technologies, Aesthetics, Ethics,” Public Culture 26.2 (2014): 205-211.
• “The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy,” Public Culture 26.2 (2014): 339-364. [PDF—Author’s Final Version]
• “Culturing Food: Bioart and In Vitro Meat,” Parallax 19.1 (2013): 88-100.[PDF—Author’s Final Version]
• “The City Refigured: Environmental Vision in a Transgenic Age,” in Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century, eds. Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry and Ken Hiltner, London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 85-102.
• “Compassion, Commodification and The Lives of Animals,” in Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment, eds. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George Handley, London: Oxford UP, 2011, pp. 200-215.
• “Bog Lands and Digital Markets: Seamus Heaney’s Late Poetry,” Pacific Coast Philology 46 (2011): 232-244.
• “War Rations and the Food Politics of Late Modernism,” Modernism/Modernity 16.4 (2009): 767-795. [PDF—Published Version, per open access policy]
• “‘The Chocolate Eater’: Food Traffic and Environmental Justice in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby,” Modern Fiction Studies 55.3 (2009): 596-619. [PDF—Published Version, per open access policy]
• “The Space Stage and the Circus: E.E. Cummings’s Him and Frederick Kiesler’s Raumbühne,” Modern Drama 51.4 (2008): 458-481; Reprinted in Reading Modern Drama, Edited by Alan Ackerman, Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2012: 83-106.

Interviews & Reviews

• Review of Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot (New York: New York University Press, 2024) in American Literary History 38.3 (2026).
• “The Postindustrial Pastoral,” Review of Adrienne Su, Living Quarters (San Francisco: Manic D. Press, 2015) and Maxine Kumin, And Short the Season (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014) in Public Books (2015).
• “The Power of Play in Urban Environmentalism: Interview with Jenny Price,” Resilience 1.1 (2014).
• “Interview: Rob Nixon,” co-edited with Robert P. Marzec, Public Culture 26.2 (2014).
• Review of Rob Nixon, Slow Violence: Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011) in Modern Fiction Studies 59.4 (2013): 847-849.
• “Michael Pollan’s Dilemma,” review of Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (New York: Penguin, 2013) in Public Books (2013).
• “Junk Culture and the Post-Genomic Age,” review of Thierry Bardini, Junkware. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2011. Postmodern Culture (2011).

Public Writing

• “Wild Cuisines, Risky Futures,” with Camille Frazier, KCET (August 21, 2018).
• “Environmental Art and Awareness in the Age of Apps,” Media Section of Resilience 1.2 (2014).
• “A Brief History of Public Art and the L.A. River,” KCET Artbound (March 20, 2014).
• “Urban Ecologies and Social Practice Art,” Media Section of Resilience 1.1 (2014).
• “Future of Food,” Boom: A Journal of California 3.4 (2013)
• “Museum Exhibition Tackles California Farmland and Farmwork,” Civil Eats (December 28, 2011)
• “Taste as a Human Right?” Arcade: A Digital Salon (February 17, 2010).
• “California Approves Methyl Iodide for Strawberries, Despite 53,000 Letters of Opposition,” Civil Eats (December 8, 2010).
• “Huerto de la Familia: Leading the Urban Ag Movement,” Civil Eats (August 27, 2010).
• “Fondy Food Center: New Horizons for the Urban Farmers’ Market,” Civil Eats (July 27, 2010).
• “All Eyes on California Strawberries: 40,000 People Join Scientists to Oppose Methyl Iodide,” Civil Eats (June 22, 2010).
• “Making Food Resonate in the Humanities,” Arcade: A Digital Salon (May 28, 2010).
• “Jónsi (gesture, installation, voice),” Arcade: A Digital Salon (April 16, 2010).
• “Forest Architecture,” Arcade: A Digital Salon (November 9, 2009).
• “’Theatre of the Future’: The Question of Art Movements,” Arcade: A Digital Salon (November 5, 2009).

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CREATIVE WORK: DOCUMENTARY FILMS, AUDIO SERIES, MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS

California on the Edge | Blue Lab documentary feature film | created by Barron Bixler (Director, Cinematographer, Writer) and A Carruth (Producer, Writer). In production

Chasing an End to Forever | Blue Lab documentary short film | created by Barron Bixler (Director, Producer, Writer) and A Carruth (Producer, Writer). In production

Carruth, A. Editorial Director and Executive Producer, Climate Stories Incubator | Blue Lab audio docuseries | creative directed by Barron Bixler, produced and distributed by Blue Lab at Princeton University (2023-2026):

• Archival Ecologies, created and produced by Jayme Collins, Season 2 (in production).
• Archival Ecologies, created and produced by Jayme Collins, Season 1, Episodes 1-6:
  • “In the Burn Zone” (December 17, 2023)
  • “Salvage” (March 6, 2024)
  • “The Place of Objects” (May 30, 2024)
  • “Weaving Community Knowledge: Nlaka’pamux Basketmaking” (June 17, 2024)
  • “Enchanted Objects” (July 22, 2024)
  • “Curating Futures” (August 5, 2024)
• Mining for the Climate, created and produced by Nate Otjen and Juan M. Rubio, Season 1, Episodes 1-5:
  • “White Gold Rush” (February 5, 2024)
  • “Land Histories and Futures” (February 6, 2024)
  • “The Body and the Mine” (February 7, 2024)
  • “A Tale of Two Ranchers” (February 8, 2024)
  • “Forking Paths” (February 9, 2024)
• Mining for the Climate, created and produced by Nate Otjen and Jessica Ng, Season 2, Episodes 1-4 (2025):
  • “Energy Colony” (May 22, 2025)
  • “Caldera as Home” (May 22, 2025)
  • “Land Access” (May 22, 2025)
  • “Long Haul” (May 22, 2025)
• Carried by Water, created and produced by Mario Soriano, Season 1, Episodes 1-7:
  • “A Cluster of Clouds Over the Pacific” (November 7, 2023)
  • “If We Called it a Tsunami” (November 21, 2023)
  • “They Said that Cancabato Bay is Already Dead” (December 5, 2023)
  • “Away from the Hazards” (Mar 12, 2024)
  • “An Organized Chaos” (Mar 26, 2024)
  • “We Are Used to Storms” (April 9, 2024)
  • “What Does Resilience Mean to You?” (April 23, 2024)
• Carried by Water, created and produced by Mario Soriano, Season 2, Episodes 1-5:
  • “This Was not Home for Us” (June 14, 2025)
  • “A Matter of Consequences” (June 14, 2025)
  • “Has Somebody Checked the Tides” (June 14, 2025)
  • “Retreat or Rot” (June 14, 2025)
  • “Revisiting Resilience” (June 14, 2025)

Popup Story Patch | Blue Lab short film | directed, filmed, written, narrated and edited by Barron Bixler; executive produced by A Carruth; camera operation by A Carruth and Asela Perez-Ortiz (2024).

Popup Story Patch | Blue Lab public art project | created by Barron Bixler, A Carruth, Jayme Collins, Nate Otjen and Asela Perez-Ortiz; commissioned by Penn Program in Environmental Humanities for Ecotopian Tools for Multispecies Flourishing, Morris Arboretum and Gardens, Philadelphia (June 14, 2024).

Nimble Foods for Climate Chaos | Environmental art and food sustainability collaboration | created and produced by A Carruth, artist Marina Zurkow and culinary team Hank and Bean; supported by UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) (2017-2019).

Taylor Yard: A Change of Heart in Los Angeles | PBS SoCal documentary short film | executive produced by A. Carruth, produced by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Jon Christensen, written by Jon Christensen, directed by Tiger Wang; a production of UCLA’s Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) in partnership with KCET/PBS SoCal (2018).

Urban Ark Los Angeles | PBS SoCal documentary short film | executive produced by A. Carruth, produced by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Ursula K. Heise, written by Ursula K. Heise, directed by Stefan Wanigatunga; a production of UCLA’s Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) in partnership with KCET/PBS SoCal (2018).

Play the LA River | Project 51 | print and digital card deck guide to the Los Angeles and yearlong program of community events, created by John Arroyo, Barron Bixler, A Carruth, Amanda Evans, Catherine Gudis and Jenny Price (2014-2015).

Carruth, A., curator and editor, “Environmental Art and Awareness in the Age of Apps,” visual media cluster, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 1.2 (2014).

Carruth, A., curator and editor, “Urban Ecologies and Social Practice Art,” visual media cluster, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 1.1. (2014).