CURRICULUM VITAE (short)
EDUCATION
PhD., English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (2010-2015). Dissertation title: Aesthetic Economies of Growth: Energy, Value, and The Work of Culture After Oil
M.A., English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (2009-2010)
B.A., Honours in English, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS (2005-2009)
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
a) Books and Anthologies
Solarities: Refractions of Being in the Time of Sun (edited with Cymene Howe and Amelia Moore). Punctum Books, 2024.
Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice (collectively authored by the After Oil Collective, eds. Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney). University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press 2021.
Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene. Edited with Lynn Badia and Marija Cetinić. London: Routledge 2020.
Energy Cultures. Edited with Imre Szeman. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press 2019.
The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx. Edited with Andrew Pendakis and Imre Szeman. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press & Continuum 2018.
Materialism and the Critique of Energy. Edited with Brent Bellamy. Chicago and Edmonton: MCM Prime Press 2018.
After Oil. Co-edited with Imre Szeman, Lynn Badia, Michael O’Driscoll, and Mark Simpson. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press and Petrocultures Research Group 2016.
Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader. Edited with Andrew Pendakis, Josh Robinson, Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press & Continuum 2014.
b) Edited Journal Volumes
Guest editor, Postmodern Culture 33.1 (Fall 2022) special issue on “Field Theory” .
Eds. Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, and Jeff Diamanti. Resilience: An Environmental Humanities Journal 7.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2020) special double issue on “Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere”.
Eds. Jeff Diamanti and Brent Bellamy. Mediations 31.2 (Winter 2018) special issue on “Materialism and the Critique of Energy” .
Eds. Brent Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti. Reviews in Cultural Theory 6.3 (March 2016) special issue on “Envisioning the Energy Humanities” .
c) Peer Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters
“Oil’s Timbre.” Routledge Handbook for Energy Humanities. Eds. Janet Stewart and Graeme Macdonald. Routledge (in preparation).
“Glacier.” Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy. Eds. Jennifer Wenzel and Imre Szeman. West Virginia University Press (in preparation).
“Carried by Currents,” Art’s Realism. eds. Amanda Boetzkes and Maryse Ouelett. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
“Contrapuntal Ice,” After Ice ed. Rafico Ruiz. University of British Columbia Press (forthcoming 2024).
“Ecoliteracies,” with Giulia Bellinetti and Tamalone van den Eijnden. Staying Together ed by Kaushani Mondal. Lexington Books, 2024.
“Geofetishism and the Tender Violence of Rare Earths,” with Amanda Boetzkes. SubStance 162 52.3 (2023).
“Bloom.” Solarities: Refractions of Being in the Time of Sun. eds with Cymene Howe et al. Punctum Books, 2023.
“Introduction to Field Theory,” Postmodern Culture 33.1 (Fall 2022).
“Respiratory Realism: Elemental Intimacies Between “Carbon Black” and Red Desert,” Imagining Air ed. Tatiana Konrad. University of Exeter Press, 2023.
“Plastic Poetics: Challenging the Epistemologies of Plastic Waste in the Artwork of Maria Roelofson,” (co-written with Nathan Beck) Plastics, Environment, Culture and Politics of Waste. ed. Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
“On Hegel’s Ground. Stasis 11.1 (2021).
“The Abstract and the Concrete in Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s Oil Barrels” (co-written with Marija Cetinić) Saturation. Eds. Rafico Ruiz and Melody Jue. Duke University Press, 2021.
“Our Future is Still the Future of 1973: Shell’s Foresight and the Petrocultural Penumbra,” New Formations 103 (2021).
“Critique Under Duress” (co-written with Kasia Mika et al.) (Un)Timely Crisis: Chronotopes and Critique. Eds. Maria Boletsi, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Kasia Mika, and Ksenia Robbe. Palgrave, 2021.
“At the Moraine” (co-written with Amanda Boetzkes). e-flux (September 2020).
— Accumulation eds. Nick Axel et al. University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
“Nine Principles for a Critical Theory of Energy” (co-written with Imre Szeman). Polygraph 28 (August 2020) special issue on “Marxism and Climate Change.”
“Intermodal Aesthetics and the Otherwise of Cargo” (co-written with Megan Hayes). Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change. Ed. Tatiana Prorokova. West Virginia University Press, 2020.
“Climate Realism: Letting Climate Change Theory.” (co-written with Marija Cetinić and Lynn Badia) introduction to Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere, London: Routledge (forthcoming December 2020).
“Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene” (co-written with Lynn Badia and Marija Cetinić) Resilience 7.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2020).
“Heliotropism at the Terminal Beach of Critique,” Large Glass 26/27 (Winter 2020). *Translated by Amaya Bozal and republished as “Heliotropismo en la playa terminal de la crítica,” #Re-visiones 10 (2020).
“Resource Radicalism and the Solar System of Black Empire” Open Library of the Humanities special issue on “Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy” 5.1 (September 2019)
“Petrocultures 2.0.” (co-written with Imre Szeman) introduction to Energy Cultures. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2019.
“Introduction.” (co-written with Andrew Pendakis and Imre Szeman) introduction to The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
"Five Theses on Sabotage in the Shadow of Fossil Capital." (co-written with Mark Simpson) Radical Philosophy 2.02 (June 2018).
“Околната среда на капитала” (“The Environment of Capital” translated by Irina Samokovska), Dversia 11 (Spring 2018).
“Phantasmagorias of Energy: Toward a Materialist Critique of Energy and Economy” (co-written with Brent Bellamy) Mediations 31.2 (Spring 2018).
“Four Genres of Affect Theory.” (co-written with Marija Cetinić) A Companion to Critical and Cultural Studies. Eds. Sarah Blacker and Justin Sully. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
“Infrastructure.” Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics. Eds. Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.
“From Fields of Wheat to Fields of Value: The Energy Unconscious of The Octopus,” Western American Literature 51.4 (Winter 2017).
“Energyscapes, Architecture, and the Expanded Field of Postindustrial Philosophy,” Postmodern Culture 26.2 (January 2016).
“Three Theses on Energy and Capital.” Reviews in Cultural Theory 6.3 (March 2016) special issue on “Energy Humanities.”
“Envisioning the Energy Humanities: An Introduction.” (co-written with Brent Bellamy) Reviews in Cultural Theory 6.3 (March 2016) special issue on “Energy Humanities.”
“Forward” to Antti Salminen & Tere Vadén, Energy and Experience. Chicago and Alberta: MCM’ Press, 2015.
“The Cultural Work of Architecture: Fixed and Social Capital at FIAT.” Mediations 28.1 (2014).
“Postindustrialisation in the Present Tense.” Stages: Journal of the Liverpool Biennial, Vol. 0, No.1. (December 2013).
“Monumental Oil.” (co-written with Marija Cetinic) American Book Review 33.3, special issue on “Petrofictions” (March/April 2012).
INTERVIEWS & NON-SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“Towards a Brackish Methodology” (co-written with Fred Carter), Aquatic Encounters ed. Anastasia Khodyreva. Helsinki: Rooftop Press, 2024.
“The Petrocultural Real,” in Tanja Engelbert Forgotten Seas. The Eriskay Connection, 2023.
“Kunst legt narratieven van extractie bloot – met onderzoeker Jeff Diamanti naar Charging Myths in Framer Framed,” Mister Motley. Interview by Fabienne Rachmadiev, April 27, 2023
Field Docket. edited with Fred Carter. Sonic Acts Press, 2023.
“Oil’s Depth(s) of Fields,” ECOES: An Independent Magazine About Art in the Age of Pollution 4 (2023).
Interview for “Pretty Heady Stuff” podcast about Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum. November 2021.
“The Bifurcation of Amsterdam’s Terminals and Tourists: Urgenda and Beyond.” (co-written with Simon Roy) FRAME 33.1 (May 2020).
“Money Matters,” Heroïne 6.2 (April 2019).
“Energy-Bearing Media.” Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 03: Bearing, Blackwood Gallery (March 2018).
"Extractivism," Krisis 3 (July 2018).
"Innovation is a Dirty Word for Automation, and Neither Will Save Us From Fossil Fuels," Heroïne 5.1 (December 2017).
"Beyond Petroculture: Strategies for a Left Energy Transition," with Imre Szeman, Canadian Dimension 51.1 (Winter 2017).
"Transition in a Petro Province? The Alberta NDP in Office," Interview for Socialism and Democracy 30:2 (July 2016): 187-202.
“Letters to _____: On the Inexhaustibility of Exhaustion,” with Marija Cetinić, GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine Spring 2014: http://gutsmagazine.ca/slider/letters-2/
“Arena’s Social Impact Left Out,” Edmonton Journal February 6, 2011.
MAJOR AWARDS
EU Horizon Europe project n.101132385 on “Petroculture’s Intersections with The Cultural Heritage sector in the context of green transitions” (Work Package 3), 2023-2028 (3.3 million euros)
University of Amsterdam Midsize Grant on “Climate Change and Displacement” (Subgroup 2), 2023-2025 (441,000 euros)Centre for Unusual Collaboration (CuCo) Seed Grant for “Plasticities” (expert team member), 2023-24
Energy transition through the lens of Sustainable Developments Goals (ENLENS) Seed Grant for FieldARTS 2022, “Transition Waters” (Principle Investigator), 2022-23
SSHRC Connection Grant for “At the Moraine” in Ilulissat, Greenland (co-applicant), 2019
SSRCH Connection Grant for Media@McGill annual colloquium (co-applicant), 2017
SSHRC Connection Grant for Banff Research in Culture (co-applicant), 2016
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, 2014-2016
Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship, 2015
English and Film Studies Doctoral Dissertation Completion Award, Winter, 2015
SSHRC Connection Grant for ICS annual conference (co-applicant), 2013
SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship, 2010-2013
Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement – CGS SSHRC, 2013-2014
University of Alberta, Sarah Nettie Christie MA Scholarship, 2009-2010
University of Alberta, Thor and Marilyn Andressen Graduate Scholarship, 2009-2010
INVITED SPEAKER
“Critical Raw Cartographies.” Keynote address to Fossil Capitalism Conference at University of Helsinki, Finland. October 11, 2024.
“Critical Raw Cartographies.” Approaches to Ecological Emergencies Seminar at the University of Barcelona, Spain. December 15, 2023.
"Milieu Fiction and Deictic Intension.” Artistic Research Lab at Casino, Luxembourg. September 4, 2023.
“Inorganic Capital,” TU Delft “Transitional Territories” Lecture Series. March 16, 2023.
“Brackish Inquiry: Doing Theory with the Field.” Utrecht Centre for Environmental Humanities. February 16, 2023.
“Bloom Ecologies.” Royal College of Art, London UK. February 15, 2023.
Expert advisory lecture to Tropenmuseum Junior Exhibition on Climate Change (2024). Leiden, Netherlands. January 24, 2023.
Keynote address to “Groundings” conference at Linnaeus University, Sweden. December 1, 2022.
“Critical Field Theory,” at ASCA Summit: Fieldwork & (Re)Emerging Fields, University of Amsterdam. November 23, 2022.
Keynote address to Deep Material Futures conference of the “Matters of Activity” Cluster of Excellence at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. November 16, 2022.
Keynote address to KTH Stockholm International Workshop on “Archives of the Planetary Mine: Culture, Nature Extraction, and Energy Across the Americas, 20th-21st century”: “Bloom Ecologies: Critical Currents for the Hypoxic Age.” Stockholm, Sweden. November 14-15, 2022.
Roundtable facilitator for URGENCY INTENSIVE: Intergovernmental Panel on Art and Climate Change, Jan Van Eyck Academy: Maastricht, Netherlands. September 22-24, 2022.
“Can Waves Write Poems? Immanent Purposiveness and the Matter of Interpretation.” Art’s Realism in the Post-Truth Era. RWTH University of Aachen. June 18-22, 2022.
“There’s No Such Thing as Environmental Philosophy.” Radical Critical Theory Circle. Nisyros, Greece. June 3-8 2022. (postponed).
Keynote address to National Environmental Humanities Conference, Mohamed 1st University: “New Directions in Environmental Humanities Research: Agency, Energy, Alterity.” Oujda, Morocco. May 13, 2022.
“Terminal Landscapes.” (Geo)Politics of Elemental Media(tion) Roundtable, McGill University, Montreal. April 28, 2022.
“Phosphate Futures.” New Developments in Theory Lecture Series organized by the Department of English at the University of Basel. May 2022.
“Phosphate Futures: Body, Territory, Mutiny.” Sonic Acts // Night Air Series. Amsterdam, NL. April 22, 2022.
“Phosphate Futures: Body, Territory, Mutiny.” Amsterdam University College, NL. April 5, 2022.
“Carried by Currents.” Fault Lines Symposium, KABK Den Haag, NL. December 3, 2021
“Hegel’s Inverted World.” Launch of the Masters in Geophilosophy program at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia. September 2021.
“Oil’s Depth of Field(s).” Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities Cultures, Ecologies and Economies of Oil. Southampton, UK. July 2021.
“Elemental Currents in the North Atlantic.” Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal. July 2021.
“Introducing the Energy Humanities.” Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) symposium on “Environmental Humanities. Amsterdam, NL. June 2021.
“Elemental Subjects of the Sea: AMOC and the Ends of the North Atlantic.” FIELDWORK speaker series hosted by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network. Edinburgh, UK. June 2021.
Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum book launch. Environmental Humanities Centre, Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam, NL. June 17, 2021.
“Against Liberty: Persons and Things in the Pandemic.” Co-presented with Zeynep Oguz, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje. December 17, 2020.
“Elemental Subjects of the Sea: Reciprocity Between Field, Lab, and Museum.” Research Centre for Material Culture, “Caring Matters” Program. Leiden, Netherlands. September 23, 2020.
“Crisis Imaginaries Chapter 1: Climate Transformations” with Carola Rackete, Radha D’Souza, and Jonas Staal. Framer Framed, Amsterdam. June 16, 2020.
“Ecological Reciprocity.” Dartmouth College Environmental Humanities Symposium. Hannover, New Hampshire. October 29-30, 2019.
“Contrapuntal Ice.” Sandberg Institute (Critical Studies Program in Environmental Crisis), Netherlands. September 30, 2019.
Masterclass on “Elemental Analytics.” Sandberg Institute (Critical Studies Program in Environmental Crisis), Netherlands. September 29, 2019.
“Drinking A Dead Glacier and Kant’s Kingdom of Ends,” Cartographies of the Vanishing Now: FIBER, Amsterdam. September 13, 2019.
“Reciprocity at the Terminal Beach.” KU Leuven, Belgium: September 9, 2019
Masterclass on “How Climate Changes Theory,” Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany: July 12, 2019.
After Oil School 2: Solarity. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. May 26-28 2019 (participant).
Keynote address to Petrocultures 2018, University of Glasgow: “The Future of Dependency: Shell’s Foresight and the Petrocultural Penumbra.” Glasgow, Scotland. August 31, 2018.
Keynote address to Energy Humanities: What We Are and Where We Are Going, Comenius University: “Energy Humanities 2.0.” Bratislava, Slovakia. 10-11 May, 2018.
Respondent to Public Event at SPUI25: Dr. Ashley Dawson, “The Energy Commons,” Amsterdam, NL. May 24 2018.
"The Future of Dependency: Shell’s Foresight and the Petrocultural Penumbra," ASCA Cities Seminar at the University of Amsterdam. April 2018.
Discussant at “Transformations of Energy Systems – Historical Perspectives on the Anthropocene”, Harnack-Haus of the Max Planck Society (MPG). Berlin, Germany. 20-21 February 2018.
"Invisible Man and the Futures of Energy," Program in Literature at Duke University. February 2017.
"Energyscapses and the Aesthetics of Postindustrial Work," ICCIT at the University of Toronto. January 2017.
“Climate Realism: Weird Weather, Cultural Cartographies, and the Atmosphere of the Present,” Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal QC. March 9, 2017.
“Between Habit and Habitus: A Response to Szeman’s ‘Pipeline Politics,’” McMaster University. March 2016.
“The Politics of Infrastructure and the Infrastructure of Politics,” presented at DKC Incel: Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. June 26, 2014.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Deictic Field Acts,” American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual convention 2023: Toronto (November 2023).
“Oil’s Depth of Field(s),” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) Annual Conference 2021: University of Michigan (October 2021).
“Phosphate Futures and the Spectre of Malthus,” Modern Language Association 2021 Convention: Toronto, Ontario (January 2021).
“Inhuman Energy,” Modern Language Association 2020 Convention: Seattle, Washington (January 2020).
“Enlivened Ice and a Dead Glacier,” Australian Anthropological Society, Annual Conference: Canberra, Australia (December 2019).
“Heliotropism at the Terminal Beach of Critique,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) convention: Washington, DC: Georgetown University (March 2019)
“Hydrological Transition in Greenland and the New Concerns of Ice,” The reciprocity of space and energy: Perspectives on energy transitions and decentralization: past, present and future (Conference). Delft University, The Netherlands (January 2019)
“Farewell to Boring Weather: On Heliotropic Pleasure, Adorno’s Tan Lines, and the Terminal Beach of Critique,” presented at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Workshop: On Boredom: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2018).
“Cloud-Based Realism from Antonioni to Amazon,” Modern Language Association 2017 Convention: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: January 8 2017.
“Five Theses on Sabotage in the Shadow of Fossil Capital,” co-written with Mark Simpson, Petrocultures 2016: Memorial University, NL. September 3, 2016.
“Reading Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” Thesis as a Foundational Petrofiction,” Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC): Queen’s University, ON. June 18th, 2016.
“Three Theses on Capital and Energy,” presented at the Modern Language Association’s 2015 convention: Vancouver, BC. January 11th, 2015.
“Marxism and the Critique of Energy,” presented at MLG-ICS’s 2014 Institute: Banff, Alberta. June 13-18, 2014.
“Black, Green, and Red Energy,” presented at the American Comparative Literature Association’s Annual Conference: New York City. March 19-23, 2014.
“Capital Projects After Public Works,” presented at MLG-ICS’s 2013 Institute: Columbus, OH. June 24-29, 2013.
“Aesthetic Economy of the Oil Barrel,” presented at Negative Cosmopolitans: Edmonton, Alberta. October 12, 2012.
“Re-thinking the Academy: Alternative Education,” presented at Proletarian Literature & Arts Summer Workshop: Learning, Teaching, and Creating at the University and in the Community: Edmonton, Alberta. August 2012.
“Architectural Properties of a Postfordist City: Urban Restructuring in Turin, 1962-1989,” presented at the MLG-ICS’s 2012 institute: Vancouver, BC. June 24-29, 2012.
“Typology and Technics for the New Economy: Italy’s Tendenza Experiment,” presented at the GSEC 2012 Graduate Symposium: University of Alberta. May 7, 2012.
“How “We” Build Today: Culture, Commerce and Place in Louisville’s Museum Plaza,” presented at the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2011 conference: Vancouver, BC. March 31 – April 3, 2011.
“The Dialectic at the End of History,” presented at the MLG-ICS’s 2010 institute: Antigonish, NS. June 13-20, 2010.
“Collective Architectures of the Common, Or, Designing Cosmopolitans,” presented at the American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Conference: New Orleans. April 1-4, 2010.
“(American) Black Internationalism: Place and Race in Schuyler’s Black Empire,” presented at the University of Alberta, Public Works: An American Literature Panel: November 5th, 2009.
CONFERENCES AND EVENTS ORGANIZED
“Energy Futures: Environmental Humanities School.” St. Francis Xavier University: Antigonish, Nova Scotia (February 27-30, 2020).
“At the Moraine: Climate Aesthetics and the Concerns of Ice.” SSHRC-supported field workshop in Ilulissat, Greenland (June 24-29, 2019).
“Climate Realism” with Shezad Dawood, Graeme Macdonald, and Amanda Boetzkes. Goethe Institute: Amsterdam, Netherlands (March 10, 2019).
“A line in the sand. IPCC's "Global Warming of 1.5 °C" and the public discourse of tipping points” with Joyeeta Gupta, Petra van der Kooij, Rhodante Ahlers, and Imre Szeman. Public Event at Spui25. Amsterdam, Netherlands (November 12, 2018).
“Constructing the “new” Yugoslav woman: a testimony/testament of emancipation at the end of WWII,” Dr. Danijela Majstorović. Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Public Talk. University Library, Amsterdam (October 19, 2018).
“Climate Phantasms and the Image of Ice,” Dr. Amanda Boetzkes. Environmental Humanities Centre, Vrije University and Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Public Talk. P.C. Hoofthuis, Amsterdam (June 22 2018).
“Grounds for Materialism,” Dr. Jacques Lezra. Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Public Lecture and Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis Masterclass. University Library, Amsterdam (June 14-15 2018).
Co-Coordinator with Daniel de Zeeuw, "Contemporary Poetry and Politics with Dr. Jasper Bernes," an Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis special event. University of Amsterdam, University Library: September 2017.
Lead Organizer, Media@McGill International Colloquium on “Climate Realism,” The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal: March 9-11, 2017. www.climaterealism.ca
Panel Organizer with Lynn Badia and Marija Cetinić on “Climate Realism,” Modern Language Association 2017 Convention. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: January 2017.
Program Director and Co-organizer, Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) 2016, “On Energy.” Banff, Alberta. May-June 2016.
After Oil School, Petrocultures Research Group: Edmonton, Alberta. August 2015 http://afteroil.ca/what-is-aos/
Panel Organizer with Brent Bellamy and Clint Burnham on “The Energy Humanities,” Modern Language Association 2015 Convention: Vancouver, BC. January 10, 2015.
SSHRC-funded Conference Co-Organizer with Dr. Imre Szeman, Brent Bellamy and David Janzen: Institute on Culture and Society on “Energy, Environment and Culture,” Banff Center. June 2014.
Co-Organizer with Marija Cetinic and David Janzen, and presenter on Roundtable on the Global Occupy Movement: University of Alberta. October 21, 2011.
Co-Organizer with Dr. Imre Szeman, “New Directions in Culture, Politics and Theory” Speaker Series, 2010-2012: University of Alberta, Edmonton.
Co-Organizer with Brent Bellamy, “Writing in the End Times: Culture and the Apocalypse” Year-EN(d)JAMBMENT Symposium: University of Alberta. April 13-14 2010
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-Director of ASCA Political Ecologies Seminar 2020-21, “The Ecology of Forms”
Co-Director of ASCA Political Ecologies Seminar 2019-20, “Precarities”
Co-Director of ASCA Cities Workshop 2018-19, “Repairing Infrastructure.”
Program Director for Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) 2016, “On Energy.”
Associate Editor, Reviews in Cultural Theory, Edmonton, Alberta: 2013-2019
Co-Founder and Coordinator, Edmonton Free School, Edmonton, AB: 2012-2016
Co-Founder and Co-Editor, The Frequent and Vigorous Quarterly Literary Journal. Antigonish, Nova Scotia: 2007 –2010
THESIS SUPERVISION
PhD (2020 -)
Charles Rouleau, “Littorals as ecocritical sound milieus: ecomusicological field recording-based artistic research in transitional space.” Doctor of Philosophy at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (2023-).
Monique Peperkamp, “Ecological Time: Matter Between Art and Activism.” Doctor of Philosophy at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (2019-).
Giulia Bellinetti “Call to Arms: Art Institutions in the Age of Ecological Emergency.” Doctor of Philosophy at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (2019-)
MA and rMA (2017-)
Renée Hoogland, “Becoming (Eco)Intimate in the Garden: Whitehead, the Planetary, and Biosensing.” Research Masters in Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam (2018-).
Stefan Plug, “Petromasculinity Between Munif and Kerouac.” Research Masters in Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam (2018-2020).
Lucy Atkinson, “Chronic Crisis and the Fantasy of Ecology: Le Guinn and Miyazaki.” Research Masters in Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam (2018-2020).
Jack Gatward, “Form and Philosophy in Recent Film Essay.” Masters in Comparative Literature, University of Amsterdam (2019-).
Max Bouwhus, “Toxic Fever Dreams: Speculations and Resilience of Jakarta in Realism and Thermo-(Al)Chemical Aesthetics.” Research Masters in Artistic Research, University of Amsterdam (2017-).
Aster Hoving, “Elemental Aesthetics.” Research Masters in Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam (2018-20).
Jade Mandrake, “The Undercurrents of Capitalism: Postsecular Worldings at Het Scheepvaarthuis.” Research Masters in Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam (2017-19).
Sophia Karimi, “Forest Encounters: Thinking with the Forest Towards Practices of Attentiveness and Ecological Justice.” Research Master in Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam (2017-19).
Patricia Becuș, “Kitchen of the Absurd: How Romanian Women Recorded History in Their Recipe Notebooks.” Master in Comparative Literature, University of Amsterdam (2018-19).
Callum McLean, "Polar Spectacle: Overwhelming Nature at the Limits." Research Master in Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam (2016-18).
Laura Pannekoek, "Geologic Media: Signs, Sediments, and the Imagination of a Volatile Planet" Master in Comparative Literature, University of Amsterdam (2017-19).
Stephen Sebastiaan Postma, "Cruel Wonders: Ontological Incompleteness Between Order and Chaos in the Works of Stanisław Lem." Master in Comparative Literature, University of Amsterdam (2017-18).
External Advisor (2017-)
Chelsey Ancliffe, “Capital and Climate Change.” PhD in Sociology, Concordia University (2022- ongoing).
Reuben Martens, “Beyond Petroleum: Reimagining Energy in Contemporary Film and Literature.” PhD in English Literature, KU Leuven (2017-2021).