Resilience is a digital, peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars from across humanities disciplines to speak to one another about their shared interest in environmental issues and to plot out an evolving conversation about what the humanities contribute to living and thinking sustainably in a world of dwindling resources. The focus on narrative skill, critical thinking, historicity, culture, aesthetics and ethics central to the humanities and to humanistic social sciences provides a crucial research complement to the endeavors of scientists in addressing current planetary crises, and the mission of Resilience is to share that perspective with a broad academic audience.
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Volume 9, No. 3 (Fall 2022)
Purple by John Akomfrah: Confronting Human Histories with Deep Time in the Anthropocene
Clara de Massol de Rebetz
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Weather
Sara J. Grossman
On Earthlings and Aliens: Space Mining and the Challenge of Post-Planetary Eco-Criticism
Brad Tabas
Cluster on Multispecies Resilience
Guest edited by Jordan Sheridan and Nandini Thiyagarajan
Introduction: Will They Survive, Or Not?
Jordan Sheridan and Nandini Thiyagarajan
Wild/Life in the Age of Environmental Crisis: Planet Earth II’s Aesthetic of Resilience
Sundhya Walthe
The Resilience of the Pest
Jesse Arseneault and Rosemary-Claire Collard
Oceanic, Multispecies, Resilient Resistance: Whales, Noise Pollution, and Tiny House Warriors
Leesa K. Fawcett and Morgan Johnson
Multispecies Resilience After Word(s)
Susie O’Brien
Resilience appears three times a year. Each issue of the journal features essays of approximately 5,000 words, as well as book reviews, interviews, photographic and other visual essays. We also are interested in translations of significant, published works in the environmental humanities which have yet to appear in English. We will review submissions of 500 to 5,000 words.
We welcome essays on any aspect of environmental research, politics, and culture. Each essay will be double-blind reviewed. The house style of the journal, and its interdisciplinary mission, requires that submissions be written in jargon-free prose. If specialized language is required, include a short glossary. A good rule of thumb: Clearly articulate the stakes of your argument for an audience that you assume will be interested but not expert in the subject and method of your work. You can assume a general familiarity with the shape of debates in environmental studies but not with the shape of those debates in your specific field. The journal seeks to make discussions in environmental humanities scholarship accessible to readers in multiple disciplines, so we seek clear, elegant writing, concise argument, and an ability to describe the contribution of your work to an evolving conversation in the humanities broadly conceived.
Submissions to the journal should follow the guidelines in the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. All artwork should be saved separately in TIFF or JPEG format.Please use our submission form to submit your essay along with a 300-word abstract and the other required information. Also, please be sure to delete your name and all identifying references in your manuscript.
Stephanie Foote (Jackson and Nichols Professor of English, West Virginia University)
Anthony Lioi (The Juilliard School)
Dana Luciano (Rutgers University)
Stephanie Foote (West Virginia University)
Stephanie LeMenager (University of Oregon)
Janet Fiskio (Oberlin College)
Bryan Alukonis (West Virginia University)
Lloyd Alter, Senior writer of architecture and design, Treehugger.com
Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Donna Haraway, Distinguished professor emerita, University of California at Santa Cruz
Dick Hebdige, Professor of film and media studies and professor of art, University of California at Santa Barbara
Ursula K. Heise, Professor of English, University of California at Los Angeles
Gordon Hutner, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon
Michael V. McGinnis, Associate professor, Graduate School of International Policy and Management, Monterey Institute of International Studies; and Researcher, Center for the Blue Economy
Bill McKibben, American environmentalist and writer
Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Richard Powers, Novelist
Jenny Price, Independent scholar, creative non-fiction writer, and environmental performance artist
Catriona Sandilands, Professor of environmental studies, York University.
Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, professor of English, film studies, and sociology, University of Alberta
Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, University of Kansas
Graeme Wynn, Professor of Geography, the University of British Columbia
Joni Adamson, Professor of English and environmental humanities, Arizona State University
Peter Alagona, Assistant professor of history and environmental studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stacy Alaimo, Professor of English, Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Samer Alatout, Associate professor of community and environmental sociology, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Monique Allewaert, Assistant professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cecilia Åsberg, Associate professor, Posthumanities Hub and Tema Genus, Unit for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Linköping University
Amanda Boetzkes, Assistant professor of modern and contemporary art history, University of Guelph
Robert Boschman, Associate professor of English, Mt. Royal University, Calgary
Antoinette Burton, Professor of history and gender and women's studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
John Clarborn, Lecturer, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
David Cleveland, Professor of environmental studies and geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Matthew Dennis, Professor of history and environmental studies, University of Oregon
Lowell Duckert, Associate professor of English, University of Delaware
Lara Farina, Associate professor of English, West Virginia University
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cheryll Glotfelty, Professor of literature and environment, University of Nevada, Reno
Lesley Green, Professor of social anthropology, University of Cape Town
Gay Hawkins, Deputy director, professorial research fellow, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
Jennifer C. James, Associate professor of English, director of Africana Studies, George Washington University
Uwe Küchler, Junior professor of English as a Foreign Language, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
ann-elise lewallen, Assistant professor of East Asian Languages and cultural studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Elizabeth Mazzolini, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Virginia Technical University
Gregg Mitman, William Coleman Professor of the History of Science, Medical History, and Bioethics, professor of science and technology studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Susie O’Brien, Associate professor of cultural studies and associate director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College; James Marsh Professor, University of Vermont
Paul Outka, Associate professor of English, University of Kansas
Ken Rogers, Assistant professor of film studies, York University, Toronto
Paula Salvio, Professor of education, University of New Hampshire
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, assistant professor of social sciences, Yale– NUS College
Siobhan Senier, Associate professor of English, University of New Hampshire
Teresa Shewry, Assistant professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nicole Starosielski, Assistant professor of media, culture, and communication, New York University
David J. Vázquez, Associate Professor of English, University of Oregon
Gillen Wood, Professor of English, director of the Sustainability Initiative, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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