Elizabeth DeLoughrey

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Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey (* 1967 ) is an American philologist and English scholar . She is a professor in the English Department and at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Elizabeth De Loughrey was a Fullbright Fellow at the University of Waikato and received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 1999 for her thesis “Antipodean archipelagoes: post-colonial cartographies in Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures” . In 2013 and 2014 she was an ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow at the Huntington Library . From 2018–19 she was a fellow at the University of California President's Faculty Research Fellowship and a 2020 fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.

She has been with the English Department since 2008 and at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA since 2012 . She teaches post-colonial and indigenous literature with a focus on the environment , globalization , food policy , the Anthropocene and climate change . A special focus of her research is on women's literature from the Caribbean and Pacific Islands as well as on postcolonial and indigenous perspectives on environmental sciences . Further fields of her academic work are island studies, militarization and nuclearization, critical ocean studies, feminist and critical theory .

DeLoughrey has participated in numerous conferences and workshops: Among other things, she co-organized the Mellon Foundation's Cultural Pre-history of Environmentalism Project in 2009 , as well as the Globalized Islands: Contemporary Literature & the Transnational Encounter Conference at UCLA in 2010 and 2011 on Participates in the Legacies of Pacific Island Militarization workshop . 2012–2013 she organized the conference “ Global Ecologies: Nature / Narrative / Neoliberalism ” at UCLA and a workshop on Imperialism, Narrative, and the Environment at the Rachel Carson Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

In 2015 DeLoughrey received a visiting professorship at the Université Paul-Valéry in Montpellier , France .

DeLoughrey is the founder and coordinator of the UCLA Colloquium on Postcolonial Literature and Theory and co-editor of the online open access journal Environmental Humanities .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures . University of Hawaii Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8248-3122-6
  • Allegories of the Anthropocene. Duke University Press, 2019, ISBN 9781478004103

As editor

  • with Renée Gosson, George Handley: Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture . University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville 2005, ISBN 978-0813923727
  • with George Handley: Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0195394436
  • with Jill Didor, Anthony Carrigan: Global Ecologies & the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches . Routledge, London 2016, ISBN 9781138235816

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth DeLoughrey. October 5, 2016, Retrieved July 11, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ a b c d DeLoughrey, Elizabeth - Department of English UCLA. In: UCLA English. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  3. Jump up ↑ Elizabeth DeLoughrey: Gendering the Voyage: Trespassing the (Black) Atlantic and Caribbean . In: Carole Boyce Davies (Ed.): Caribbean Women's Writing / Imagining Caribbean Space . 1998, p. 205-231 .
  4. ^ Antipodean archipelagoes: post-colonial cartographies in Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures. In: Researchgate. Researchgate, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Elizabeth DeLoughrey - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Elizabeth DeLoughrey. In: Essays on Global Blackness & the Questions of Freedom. December 28, 2016, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ https://www.bpb.de/apuz/273606/guam-als-archipel-einfuehrung-in-die-island-studies Description of the term island studies in Zollitsch, Guam as archipelago, accessed on August 16, 2020
  8. ↑ Global Ecologies - UCLA | Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
  9. ^ Imperialism, Narrative, and the Environment - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
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SURNAME DeLoughrey, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philologist and English scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1967