My dissertation takes dandelions and their human and more-than-human contexts as a case study to ask questions about bodies/bodily value, animacy, borders, the logics and grammars of nation, medicine, ecologies, dis/ability, weediness, and networks of care (among many more). I hope to write stories about dandelions that foster engaged and entangled relationships with many plants and creatures and humans around us.
If you have a story about dandelions you’d like to share, write me.
Dissertation
Research and teaching interests: political ecology, queer theory, settler colonialism, storytelling, poetry
Presentations
March 24, 2022
November 3, 2022
July 6-12, 2023
August 31, 2024
February 24, 2024
“A Meditation on What it Might Mean to Be a Dandelion.” Dimensions of Political Ecology conference. University of Kentucky. Virtual.
“Dandelions: The Weediness of Bodies and Their Boundaries.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
“Thinking with Dandelions: On Networks of Medicine and Care.” The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment and The Association For Environmental Studies and Sciences. Portland, OR.
“Dandelions and Dis/connection: Toward an Expansive Pain Care Protocol,” Disability Studies Seminar. Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas.
“Digging for Dandelions & Unearthing Rhizomatic Care,” Panel Presentation, More-Than-Human Panel, The Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. (forthcoming).
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