Podcast: Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks

Miriam Tola, Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies at John Cabot University (Italy), discussed her book Resurgent Commons: Feminist Political Ecologies in the European […]

Michelle Henning, Professor in Photography and Media at the University of Liverpool (UK), discussed her book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire (University of […]

Kip Hutchins, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Oberlin College (USA), discussed his book A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human […]

Christopher Jones, associate professor of history at Arizona State University (USA), discussed his book The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous […]

Katja Bruisch, Ussher Assistant Professor in Modern Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), discussed her book Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s […]

Nathan K. Hensley, Professor of English at Georgetown University (USA), discussed his book Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse (University of Chicago Press, 2025) in […]

Joanna Allan, Associate Professor in global development at Northumbria University, UK, discussed her book Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara (West Virginia University […]

Dominic Hinde, Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, discussed his book Drifting North: Finding a sustainable future in Scotland’s past (Manchester University Press, 2025) in […]

Dolly Jørgensen, Professor of History at University of Stavanger (Norway) and co-host of the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks, presented her own book Ghosts Behind […]

Micah Muscolino, professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California San Diego (USA), discussed his book Remaking the […]

Marianna Dudley, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanties at University of Bristol (UK), discussed her book Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain (Manchester University Press, 2025) […]

Roy Scranton, Associate Professor and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHUM) at University of Notre Dame (USA), discussed his book Impasse: Climate Change and the […]

Brad Bolman, Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University (USA), discussed his book Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles (University of Chicago Press, 2025) in […]

Jules Skotnes-Brown, Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews (UK), discussed his book Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948 (Johns Hopkins University […]

Tina Adcock, assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University (Canada), discussed her book A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North (University of British Columbia […]

Richard Fallon, KE Fellow at University of Nottingham and Postdoctoral Researcher in Collections and Culture at the Natural History Museum (UK), discussed his book Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935: Believers […]

Rebecca K. Wright, Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria University (UK), discussed her book Moral Energy in America: From the Progressive Era to the Atomic Bomb (Johns […]

John Kinder, director of American Studies and professor of history at Oklahoma State University (USA), discussed his book World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in […]

Pollyanna Rhee, assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA), discussed her book Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970 […]

Josh Nygren, Associate Professor of history at the University of Central Missouri (USA), discussed his book The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex […]

Christian Long, media studies scholar at University of Queensland (Australia), discussed his book Infrastructure in Dystopian and Post-apocalyptic Film, 1968–2021 (University of Chicago Press, 2024) in the […]

Sasha Gora, cultural historian and Project Director of “Off the Menu” at University of Augsburg (Germany), discussed her book Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada (University […]

Gina Caison, Associate Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University (USA), presented Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance (Duke University Press, 2024) in the […]

Kylie Crane, Professor of British and American Cultural Studies at University of Rostock (Germany), will discuss her book Concrete and Plastic: Thinking Through Materiality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) […]

Anne Berg, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), will discuss her book Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi […]

Ángeles Picone, Assistant Professor of History at Boston College (USA), discussed her book Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina (University of North Carolina […]

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Research Scholar at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), discused his book Sea Level: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental […]

Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, curator and Research Fellow in Art and Design at University of New South Wales (Australia), kicked off a new year of the Greenhouse […]

Lisa Yin Han, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College (USA), discussed her book Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor (University of […]

Jamie Jones, Assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), discussed her book Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US […]

Elena Kochetkova, Associate Professor in Modern European Economic History at University of Bergen, Norway, joined the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series to discuss her […]

Joseph Seeley, Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia (USA), discussed his book Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea […]

Rachel Gross, assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver (USA), discussed her book Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold […]

Sandra Swart, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, discussed her book The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past (Jacana Media, 2023) […]

Judith Rauscher, assistant professor (Juniorprofessorin) of American Literature and Culture at the University of Cologne, discussed her book Ecopoetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American […]

Sarah Dimick, assistant professor of English at Northwestern University (USA), discussed her book Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia University Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental […]

Sonja Pieck, Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College (USA), discussed her book Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain (The MIT Press, […]

Jamie Wang, Research Assistant Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong, presented her book Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore (The MIT Press, 2024) in […]

Michael Lobel, Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY (USA), discussed his new book Van Gogh and the End of Nature (Yale […]

John MacNeill Miller, Associate Professor of English at Allegheny College (USA), presented his book The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science (University of Virginia […]

Elsa Devienne, Assistant Professor of Humanities at Northumbria University (UK), discussed her book Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, […]

Dan Vandersommers, Assistant Professor of History at University of Dayton, USA, discussed his book Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive (University Press […]

Kathleen (Kate) Murphy, Associate Dean for Student Success and Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University (USA), discussed her book Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, […]

Ellen F. Arnold, Senior Lecturer at Ohio State University (USA), discussed her book Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c.300-1100 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) in […]

Ruth Morgan, Associate Professor at the Australian National University, discussed her book Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice (Bloomsbury, 2024) in […]

Matthew Holmes, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stavanger, discussed his book The Graft Hybrid: Challenging Twentieth-Century Genetics (University of Pittsburg Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental […]

Carolyn Fornoff, assistant professor of Latin American studies at Cornell University, joined the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk to discuss her book Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural […]

Jason Heppler, historian and the senior developer at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media of George Mason University, discussed his book Silicon Valley […]

Dana Luciano, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, discussed her book How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the […]

Siobhan Angus, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Carleton University, discussed her book Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke University Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse book […]

Historian Mica Jorgenson discussed her book The Weight of Gold: Mining and the Environment in Ontario, Canada, 1909-1929 (University of Nevada Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental […]

Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University (USA), discussed his book Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University […]

Caleb Wellum, Assistant Professor of US history at the University of Toronto, Mississauga (Canada), discussed his book Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making […]

Fynn Holm, Junior Professor in Japanese Studies at University of Tübingen (Germany), discussed his book The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast […]

Matthew Archer, Assistant Professor in Social Science at Maastricht University (Netherlands), discussed his book Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability (NYU Press, 2024) in […]

Katie Sagal, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College (USA), discussed her book Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century […]

Otto Latva, University Lecturer at University of Turku (Finland), discussed his book The Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture: The Monsterization of Molluscs (Routledge, 2024) in the Greenhouse […]

Christopher Blakley, Visiting Assistant Professor at Occidental College, discussed their book Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World in the Greenhouse environmental […]

Dianne Rayson, Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at Pacific Theology College (Fiji), discussed her book Bonhoeffer and Climate Change: Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene (Rowman […]

Peter Sutoris, Lecturer in Education at the University of York (UK), discussed his book Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow […]

Simone Müller, Heisenberg Professor for Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities at the University of Augsburg (Germany), discussed her book The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of […]

Jared Margulies, Assistant Professor of Political Ecology at the University of Alabama (USA), presented his book The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent […]

Dario Fazzi, Assistant Professor of US and Environmental History at Leiden University and Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (Netherlands), discussed his […]

Robyn d’Avignon, Assistant Professor of History at New York University (USA), presented her book A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University […]

Mantha Zarmakoupi, Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture at University of Pennsylvania (USA), discussed her book Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial […]

Davide Orsini, Postdoctoral researcher at the Rachel Carson Center at LMU Munich (Germany), discussed his book The Atomic Archipelago: US Nuclear Submarines and Technopolitics of Risk […]

Karen Pinkus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University (USA), discussed her book Subsurface (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book […]

Harriet J. Evans Tang, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University (UK), discussed her book Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland: From Farm-Settlement to Sagas (D.S. Brewer, 2022) in […]

Kyle Parry, associate professor of history of art and visual culture at the University of California Santa Cruz (USA), will discuss his book A Theory of […]

Peter Alagona, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara (USA), discussed his book The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities (University of […]

Tore Størvold, Associate Professor of Music at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, discussed his book Dissonant Landscapes: Music, Nature, and the Performance of Iceland (Wesleyan […]

Writer Bethany Brookshire discussed her book Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains (HarperCollins, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 28 August 2023 […]

Hi′ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University (USA), discussed Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Duke University Press, 2022) […]

Christina Gerhardt, Associate Professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley (USA), discussed Sea Change: An Atlas […]

Charlotte Wrigley, postdoctoral fellow at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger (Norway), presented her book Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in […]

Katrin Kleemann, postdoctoral researcher at the German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (Germany), launched her book A Mist Connection: An Environmental History of […]

Matthew Eisler, Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK), discussed his book Age of Auto Electric: Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the […]

Amy Kohout, associate professor of history at Colorado College (USA), discussed her book Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers (University of Nebraska Press, […]

Caroline Grego, Assistant Professor of History at Queen’s University of Charlotte (USA), presented her book Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 […]

Killian Quigley, Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University’s Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, discussed his book Reading Underwater Wreckage: An Encrusting Ocean (Bloomsbury, 2023) on Monday, […]

Historian Neil Oatsvall discussed his book Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960 (University of Alabama Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental book talk […]

Christina Dunbar-Hester, associate professor at the University of Southern California (USA), discussed Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and […]

Ezra Rashkow, Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University (USA), discussed his book The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, ‘Tribes’, Extermination & Conservation, 1818-2020 (Oxford […]

Abigail Agresta, Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University (USA), presented her book The Keys to Bread and Wine: Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late […]

Simone Ferracina, founding director of Exaptive Design Office (EDO) and Lecturer in Architectural Design/Detail at University of Edinburgh (UK), discussed his book Ecologies of Inception: Design […]

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Seattle University (USA), launched his book The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life (University of California Press, […]

Samantha Muka, assistant professor of science, technology, and society in the College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology (USA), discussed Oceans under […]

Faizah Zakaria, Assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), discussed her book The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in […]

Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer in Culture & Policy in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia), joined the Greenhouse […]

Matthew Henry, assistant instructional professor at University of Wyoming (USA), launched his book Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) with […]