A senior lecturer in contemporary literature researching environmental justice and responses to the climate crisis, currently exploring the history of population narratives within the environmental movement.
I'm a senior lecturer in contemporary literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and most of my published research revolves around environmental justice and responses to the climate crisis.
My last book, After Katrina: Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century (2017), explored the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, looking at the ways in which the effects and consequences of this major storm in 2005 were unevenly and unjustly distributed amongst the New Orleans population. Low-income communities, which were disproportionately black, suffered most as a result of the storm and the protracted ‘recovery’ process, and my work examined the cultural and environmental histories that shaped these realities.
I am currently working on a new project provisionally titled, 'Women and the Anthropocene: Peopling the Planet in an Age of Climate Crisis’, which explores the history of population narratives within the environmental movement, and the ways in which the burden of this narrative has fallen particularly on the shoulders of marginalized women.
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