Dr. Stacy Alaimo
(she/they)
Professor of English, Director of Graduate Studies for English;
Core Faculty Member, Environmental Studies;
COLT Participating Faculty; CSWS Faculty Affiliate
University of Oregon
Books
I write about the strange and often volatile relations between environmentalism, science, theory, literature, art, popular culture, and gender. My concept of trans-corporeality links material feminism, new materialism, environmental justice, and environmental posthumanism. I am currently writing about how the aesthetic crosses through the science, art, and literature of the seas, especially the deep seas.

Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana UP, 2010). Environmental justice, environmental health, and material feminisms occupy the "trans-corporeal" sites where body, place, and substance intersect. Bodily Natures develops my new materialist, material feminist conception of environmental thought and practice. [Cover art: "Toxic Girl," Fawazo.]
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Winner of the ASLE Book Award for Ecocriticism, 2011
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Featured in New Books Network interview and podcast, 2013: http://newbooksnetwork.com/stacy-alaimo-bodily-natures-science-environment-and-the-material-self-indiana-up-2010/
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Plenary book session at the International Association of Environmental Philosophy, Eugene, Oregon, 2013.
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Korean translation,by Joon Yun, Konkuk University, Seoul, Institute of Body and Culture, published by Greenbee, as 말, 살, 흙, Word, Flesh, Dirt, 2018; second printing, 2018.
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Chapters translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Polish,
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Key concept, “trans-corporeality” taken up widely in humanities and social sciences, and included as an entry in Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman Glossary
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Art exhibit, “Transcorporeality” at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne Germany, Fall 2019; published essay in catalogue, Fall 2020.
Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (Minnesota 2016) contends that the anthropocene is no time to set things straight. The book resists the temptation to engage in any sort of grand mapping that would be inimical to the embedded modes of epistemological, ethical, and political engagement that it traces, working instead through a surprising mix of theory, science, art, and activism. It begins by considering the pleasures of inhabiting places where the domestic refuses to domesticate and the walls decline to divide. It ends with an imaginary inhabitation of the dissolving shells of sea creatures who epitomize extinction in anthropocene seas. Along the way it considers queer animals, naked protests, the strange agencies of plastic pollution, and the gendered politics of climate change. Dwelling in the dissolve, where fundamental boundaries have begun to come undone, unraveled by unknown futures, can be a mode of ethical engagement and political inhabitation, which emanates from both feminist and environmentalist practices. Exposed locates new materialisms and material feminisms in fleeting ethical moments and compromised political sites that make up the massive temporal and geographical expanse of the anthropocene.[Cover art: Marina Zurkow, video still from "Slurb."]

Podcasts and blogs, and more about Exposed:
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Translated into Korean and Italian, in progress.
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“Climate Change, Carbon-Heavy Masculinity and the Politics of Exposure”
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Podcast interview with Katie McKeown, New Books in Environmental Studies, New Books Network
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Culture of Energy Podcast, #39, with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer
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Inspired special issue of Simulacrummagazine (Amsterdam) “Practicing Exposure.” Including an interview with Max Litjens and Michelle Geraerts, 2019. http://simulacrum.nl/2019/call-for-papers-practicing-exposure-simulacrum-x-fiber-festival/
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Special session, “Author Meets Readers” at the Association of American Geographers, 2018.
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Finalist for 2017 ASLE Book Award for Ecocriticism
Current Project: Deep Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss, investigates the science, art, film, and literature of deep sea creatures, asking what modes of recognition and reorientation these unfathomable creatures may spark. It traces how marine animals circulate through science, popular culture, and conservation movements, considering the relation between scientific capture, aesthetic rendering, and the possibilities for posthuman politics.
Undomesticated Ground (Cornell 2000) draws on poststructuralist feminist theory and cultural studies, advocating gender-minimizing, intersectional feminisms that recast nature as feminist space. Darwinian feminists, Marxist feminists, birth control activists, postmodern artists and novelists, and queer writers reinvent the concept of "nature." [Cover art: Ana Mendieta.]
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Excerpts on “Mother Earth” reprinted in Nuda Paper(commercial paper sold in Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, and London), Fall 2019.
