Dr. Stacy Alaimo
(she/they)
Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor in English;
Director of Graduate Studies for English;
Core Faculty Member, Environmental Studies;
COLT Participating Faculty; CSWS Faculty Affiliate;
University of Oregon
Podcasts, Interviews, and More
Check out this fabulous new book by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland! (In which I get to descend in a deep sea submersible, surrounded by abyssal life!)


National/International
PODCASTS
Reckoning, with Jason Herbert, podcast interview, conducted May 26, on The Abyss Stares Back, forthcoming
"Cosmic Conversation" with Eva Hayward, Fernando Silva e Silva, and Emilia Braz, forthcoming.
Green Dreamer podcast, with Kamea Chayne, on The Abyss Stares Back, September, 2025, Episode 459, "Stacy Alaimo: Sinking into Our Entanglements with the Deep Seas." https://www.greendreamer.com/podcast/stacy-alaimo-the-abyss-stares-back
Cultures of Energy Podcast #233, with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, "Abyss," https://tinyurl.com/4dzmhffk
Interviewed for award-winning podcast, “A Field Guide to Gay Animals,” with Laine Kaplan-Levenson and owen ever. Recorded March 26, 2024, airing Summer of 2024. Included in Episode 5, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCVUCo1Jvj0;
Two podcast recordings based on my work, for Green Dreamer’s "alchemize" project of “radical imagination practices.” Two scripts, written and recorded, “You are a Pyschedelic Jellyfish,” and “Entangled in Care,” Jan. 2024. https://www.greendreamer.com/alchemize
Interview with Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, University of Colorado, Boulder, for Communicating Care podcast, Fall, 2023: https://communicatingcare.buzzsprout.com/1924467/12676953-prof-stacy-alaimo-on-plastics-carbon-heavy-masculinity-and-caring-for-deep-blue-ecologies/
Interview with Aaron Goodman, Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/12467574-episode-22-bodily-natures-exploring-multiple-chemical-sensitivity-a-conversation-with-stacy-alaimo-ph-d
Interview with Kamea Chayne for Green Dreamer podcast, October 2022, “Our Bodies are the Anthropocene.” https://greendreamer.com/podcast/stacy-alaimo-deep-blue-ecologies
Podcast Interview, with Chris Richardson, This is Not a Pipe, February. 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8PiWF5tuDo
Podcast interview with Katie McKeown, for the New Books in Environmental Studies, New Books Network, about Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times, March 2017: https://newbooksnetwork.com/stacy-alaimo-exposed-environmental-politics-and-pleasures-in-posthuman-times-u-minnesota-press-2016
Culture of Energy Podcast, #39, with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences Rice University. October 2016.
Chosen as one of the favorite podcasts of the year: https://cenhs.libsyn.com/ep-39-stacy-alaimo
Podcast interview with Brandon Fiedor for New Books Network, Critical Theory, about Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. July 2013. https://newbooksnetwork.com/stacy-alaimo-bodily-natures-science-environment-and-the-material-self-indiana-up-2010
PRINT/DIGITAL INTERVIEW
Interview for Ecology and Gender, ed. Margarita Tsomou, 3600 words, conducted May 2026, forthcoming.
Interview with Marco Liberatore, "Trans-corporeality, environments and posthuman pleasures. Building the future of the Planet," Goccia, (urban remediation project in Milan, Italy), October 2025.
Interview with Jennifer Teets, “Deep Cuts, Chemicals, and Climate: An Interview with Stacy Alaimo on Transcorporeality,” for Body as Journal magazine, Lithuanian Culture Institute, 2022. https://asajournal.lt/articles/deep-cuts-chemicals-and-climate-an-interview-with-stacy-alaimo-on-transcorporeality/
Interview with Dr. Julia Tofantšuk,, “Transcorporeality: An interview with Stacy Alaimo by Julia Kuznetski (formerly Tofantšuk),” English and Spanish, in a special 10th anniversary issue of Ecozon@, 11. 2. Autumn 2020: 137-146. Translated into Estonian and Japanese. https://ecozona.eu/article/view/3478
“Immersed, Unmoored, Ungrounded,” Interview with Michelle Geraerts and Max Litjens for Simulacrum x Fiber(Amsterdam) for a special issue inspired by Alaimo’s book Exposed, “Practicing Exposure.” Fall 2019
Interview for MLA Commons, The Commons Newswire, with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Sharon O’Dare, and Stephanie LeMenager “Group Spotlight: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities,” 2015 http://thewire.commons.mla.org/ecocriticism-environmental-humanities/
Interview with Helena Feder. “Changing Nature: Stacy Alaimo and Cary Wolfe at ASLE” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2014): 1-21.
Video interview with Peter Shea, for “The Bat of Minerva.” University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study. http://ias.umn.edu/media/BatofMinerva.php; http://ias.umn.edu/2009/11/03/alaimo-stacy-2/
For the University of Oregon
Spotlight video interview with Sangita Gopal, Director of CSWS, about several of my books, January 2026.
Long interview with Melody Allison for Center for Environmental Futures podcast, about The Abyss Stares Back, January, 2026.
Short interview with Leah Middlebrook for OHC's Research Notes on The Abyss Stares Back (9 minutes, at 23:40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrXCAcIpW8g&t=1949s).
Interview with McKenna Martinez, freshman composition student, on my essay, “Wanting all the species to Be: Extinction, Environmental Visions, and Intimate Aesthetics.” Posted on You Tube. Spring 2023
Interview with Lauren Hodges, U of O student, “Stacy Alaimo Fuses Art and Science in Deep Sea Exploration,” for Oregon Quarterly, 102.3 Alumni Magazine, Spring 2023. https://oregonquarterly.uoregon.edu/fusing-art-and-science-save-seas
Interview with Lauren Hodges, “Depth Perception: Art and Science Meet in Deep-Sea Conservation,” https://research.uoregon.edu/about/announcements/depth-perception-art-and-science-meet-deep-sea-conservation?fbclid=IwAR2F0A5Ot9snDj_jLDBkdC6VnvNSfaaosWUQpcxeXIGWIKDSIlmWgxoVTqQ
Video interview with Paul Peppis, Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon, Fall 2019. https://youtu.be/6WM8DpGckgA; https://soundcloud.com/oregonhumanitiescenter/uo-today-with-stacy-alaimo
Interview with Dr. Liz Bohls for newsletter, English Department, U of Oregon, Spring 2019.
For University of Texas at Arlington
“Alaimo Mulls Humanity, Nature.” Interviewed by Charlotte Whitely for the College of Liberal Arts Newsroom. Fall 2013. http://utalibartsnews.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/qa-alaimo-mulls-humanity-nature/
“English’s Alaimo Researches Art, Animals.” Interviewed by Karla Cano. http://utalibartsnews.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/englishs-alaimo-researches-art-animals/
“Visiting Scholars Gain New Perspectives at UTA.” College of Liberal Arts News Room. March 2013. https://utalibartsnews.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/visiting-scholars-gain-new-perspectives-at-uta/
Art Exhibitions Inspired by My Work:
Aurora Castillo, art for the group exhibition, Oceano Interior, at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, April 2026--
Wist, Allie. Art installations: "If you Suffer Place a Stone in your Mouth," New INC, Manhattan, 2026 and "Transcorporeality," Renssalaer Polytech, 2024.
“Concha en ácido,” multiple room exhibition, by artist Elizabeth Burmann Littin, at the MAC Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile, April 2024-, based on my chapter “Your Shell on Acid,” from Exposed. Presented a Zoom talk about my chapter for the exhibit, at the museum, May 2024.
“The Naked Word: The Naked Body for Reciprocal Vulnerability,” Exhibition curated by Simone Frangi and Barbara Boninsegna The Naked Word was a group exhibition with works by Marco Giordano, Jota Mombaça, Tarek Lakhrissi, Florin Flueras, Alina Popa on view at Centrale Fies, Dro Italy. July 2023---. Based on my chapter “The Naked Word,” from my book Exposed.
“Here and Now at Museum Ludwig: Transcorporeality.” Art exhibit in Cologne, Germany, based on my work, September 2019. “Transcorporeality: from Bodily Natures to the Arts of the Anthropocene,” 5,000 word essay for the catalog, Fall, 2020.
(Known) Artistic use of my work:
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Ireland, Perrin Roosevelt, Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex. My essay/chapter, "Eluding Capture" is featured on three pages of this graphic nonfiction work. Norton: New York, June 2026.
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Riikka Tauriainen, a Finnish visual artist, in a film about jellyfish (2019)
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Polish Pavilion in the Venice Bienniale; “Amplifying Nature” cites Bodily Natures (2018)
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Jangal, a play, Teatro Praga, Portugal, cites Bodily Natures
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Rosana Antolí "A Golden Age: Pulse, Throb, Drift," https://www.centrocentro.org/en/exhibition/golden-age-pulse-throb-drift;
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"Gardenship and State," Museum London, art exhibition and research project, https://www.gardenship.ca/exhibition;
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"No Body! Said the Two Lips," group exhibition, Berlin, 2022, https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/graduate-school/current-events-archive/translate-to-english-no-body-said-the-two-lips/
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Swam with Irish swim artist Vanessa Daws at BABEL 2014 in Santa Barbara, CA, in the event “Swimography,” and wrote a brief account of the experience which she included in her essay “Psychoswimography: Santa Barbara,” in Visual Artists Newssheet, March-April 2015. http://visualartists.ie/category/van-ebulletin/visual-artists-news-sheet/ Passage that I wrote also included in the artist’s book, Psychoswimography: Santa Barbara, 2015.


