I engage with aesthetics of the Desert Southwest in literature, art, and film in order to stimulate a more expansive engagement with the environmental humanities and criticism. For example: how does landscape influence individual, collective, and cultural memory? How do texts allow us to imagine human and nonhuman relationships in the near future in the face of climate change?

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It is my intent to challenge the stereotypical representations of the desert, and who and what they include and exclude. Through my work, I draw attention to the human and nonhuman histories, similarities, and differences one encounters and is entangled with in the desert. 

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Publications

“Color, Place, and Memory in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes.” Reading Aridity. Eds. Jada Ach and Gary Reger. Lexington Books, Fall 2020. (forthcoming)