Refereed Journal Articles
“(Re)Cyclical Ontologies: Transtemporal Poetics for Climate Change Futures in Craig Santos Perez’s Habitat Threshold.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (forthcoming).
This paper begins with the premise that envisioning a future through and beyond climate crisis requires confronting humankind's complicated entanglement with colonial violence. I analyze Craig Santos Perez’s 2020 work of environmental poetry, Habitat Threshold, to outline a decolonial approach to collective climate action.
“Braiding Theory and Praxis: Toward a Decolonial Material Ecocriticism.” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal (forthcoming January 2027).
This paper surveys the emergence of Material Ecocriticism, a recent subfield in ecocritical studies. I overview its generative possibilities, and I identify a critical limitation: that the colonial epistemological frameworks of academia fundamentally restrict the theoretical possibilities of Material Ecocriticism. I analyze Robin Wall Kimmerer's essay, "Collateral Damage" (Braiding Sweetgrass, 2013) to develop a decolonial material ecocritical approach.
Book Chapters
“Unsettling Time: Storytelling in Climate Crisis.” Postcolonial Indigenous Ecocriticism and Environmental Protest, ed. Donna Potts and Amitendu Bhattacharya, Routledge Environmental Humanities Series (forthcoming).
In this paper, I first draw on Mark Rifkin's notion of “settler time” (Beyond Settler Time, 2017) and Elizabeth Marino's ethnographic study of Shishmaref, Alaska (Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground, 2015) to illustrate how a colonial linear temporality drives environmental change and amplifies vulnerability for Indigenous communities. I then analyze Linda Hogan's novel, Solar Storms (1994), to explore how storytelling can unsettle time, offering a way of imagining futurity in the face of environmental destruction and change.
Journal Issues
“Special Issue: Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies,” in Community Literacy Journal. Guest Editor, with Kaylie Fougerousse, Joanna Gordon, and Katie Silvester, vol 20., no. 1, Fall 2025.
Our special issue asks community literacy practitioners to consider how we might reconceptualize sustainability collaboratively and across disciplines via frameworks committed to powerful intersections, reciprocity, reclamation, healing, and community connections.
Book Reviews
“A Humanities for the Future: Review of The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis, by Caroline Levine.” Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities, vol. 11 no. 2, 2024, p. 272-277. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/res.2024.a953857
“Book Review: Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change.” Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, vol. 5, no. 1, June 2024, pp. 24-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46863/ecocene.106