Below are a set of Bibliographies categorized by subject. If there are readings listed that you think particularly relevant to your own work and that are not able to access through your own institutional library, you can submit a request to the Program Organizers and when possible we will make the readings requested available to you ask an Institute Participant. Links To Readings that have been generously copied and placed in digital files by Holiness Kerandi, Marla Jaksch, and Cymone Fourshey for fellow Institute Participants. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v_Y2fkpqudJdxUkGTrQqlZC4oBQozBeg?usp=sharing
Links To Readings that have been generously copied and placed in digital files by Holiness Kerandi, Marla Jaksch, and Cymone Fourshey for fellow Institute Participants. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v_Y2fkpqudJdxUkGTrQqlZC4oBQozBeg?usp=sharing
General Background
• Alaimo, Stacy. “Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea.” Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
• Alaimo, Stacy. “States of Suspension: Trans-corporeality at Sea.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 19.3 (2012).
• Blum, Hester. “The Prospect of Oceanic Studies.” PMLA 125.3 (2010): 670-677.
• Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. “The Sea Above.” Elemental Ecocriticism. Eds. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
• Cohen, Margaret. “Chronotopes of the Sea.” The Novel: Volume 2 Forms and Themes. Ed. Franco Moretti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 646-666.
• DeLoughrey, Elizabeth. “Oceanic Futures: Interspecies Worlding.” Allegories of the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
• DeLoughrey, Elizabeth. “Submarine Futures of the Anthropocene.” Comparative Literature 69.1 (2017): 32-44.
• Duckert, Lowell. “Exit, Wet.” For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
• Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
• Giblett, Rod. Cities and Wetlands: Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
• Giblett, Rod. Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
• Gillis, John. “The Blue Humanities.” Humanities 34.3 (2013).
• Jue, Melody. “Thinking through Seawater.” Wild Blue Media. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
• Mentz, Steve. “Seep.” Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. Eds. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
• Neimanis, Astrida. “Imagining Water in the Anthropocene.” Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
• Roorda, Eric Paul. The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
• Scarpino, Philip. “Anthropocene World / Anthropocene Waters: A Historical Examination of Ideas and Agency,” in Rivers of the Anthropocene, eds. J. Kelly et al. University of California Press, 2017. 101-115.
Place-Based
• Blum, Hester. “Polar EcoMedia.” The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
• Black, Brian. “Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus: Re-Creating the Industrial Process through the Landscape of Pennsylvania’s Oil Boom.” Environmental History 3:2 (1998): 210-29.
• Chiarappa, Michael. “Fed by the Adjoining Waters: The Delaware Estuary’s Marine Resources and the Shaping of Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Orbit.” Nature’s Entrepot. Ed. Brian Black and Michael Chiarappa. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
• Giblett, Rod. “Canadian Wetlands Culture: Past and Present.” Canadian Wetlands: Places and People. Chicago: Intellect, 2014.
• Jones, Christopher. “Taming the Susquehanna.” Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 161-194.
• Macfarlane, Daniel and Heasley, Lynne. Eds. Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016.
• Magoc, Chris. “In Search of a Useable–and Hopeful–Environmental Narrative in the Mid-Atlantic.” Pennsylvania History 82.3 (2015): 314-328.
• Marsh, Ben. “Meltwater Channel Scars and the Extent of Mid-Pleistocene Glaciation in Central Pennsylvania.” Geomorphology 295 (2017): 354-363.
• Mentz, Steve. Oceanic New York. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2015.
• Pastore, Chris. “From Sweetwater to Seawater.” Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.
• Pawling, Micah. “Walastakwey (Maliseet) Homeland: Waterscapes and Continuity within the Lower St. John River Valley, 1784-1900.” Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region 46.2 (2017): 5-34.
• Shannon, Timothy J. “Avenue of Empire: The Hudson Valley in an Atlantic Context,” in Jacobs and Roper, eds. Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013. 67-84.
• Stuhl, Andrew. “Is the Arctic out of Time?” Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
• Wohl, Ellen. A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World’s Great Rivers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Identity & Erasure
• Braithwaite, Kamau. History of the Voice. New York: New Beacon Books, 1984.
• Chow, Jeremy and Brandi Bushman. “Hydro-eroticism.” English Language Notes 57.1 (2019): 96-115.
• Cusak, Tricia. “The Chosen People: The Hudson River School and the construction of American Identity.” Riverscapes and National Identities. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010. 19-56.
• Gilroy, Paul. “The Black Atlantic as Counterculture to Modernity.” The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1995.
• Glissant, Edóuard. “The Black Beach.” Poetics of Relation. Trans. Betsy Wing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
• Gómez-Barris, Macarena. “Submerged Perspectives.” The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
• Hau’ofa, Epeli. “Our Sea of Islands.” Tidaletics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science. Ed. Stefanie Hessler. Boston: MIT Press, 2018.
• Ingersoll, Karin Amimoto. “Seascape Epistemology: Ke Kino and Movement.” Waves of Knowing. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
• King, Tiffany Lethabo. “The Black Shoals.” Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
• Sammler, Katherine. “Kauri and the Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand.” Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea. Eds. Irus Braverman and Elizabeth Johnson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
• Walker, Isaiah Helekunihi. “Kai Ea: Rising Waves of National and Ethnic Hawaiian Identities.” The Critical Surf Studies Reader. Eds. Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Imagining & Theorizing: The Humanities in Conversation
• Bachelard, Gaston. “Water’s Voice.” Water and Dreams. Trans. Joanna Stroud. Dallas: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1999.
• Barad, Karen. “Invertebrate Visions: Diffractions of the Brittlestar.” The Multispecies Salon. Ed. Eben Kirksey. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
• Braverman, Irus and Elizabeth Johnson. “Blue Legalities: Governing More-Than-Human Oceans.” Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea. Eds. Irus Braverman and Elizabeth Johnson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
• Elias, Ann. “Under the Sea.” Coral Empires: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
• Garrard, Greg, Axel Goodbody, George B. Handley, & Stephanie Posthumus. “Science and Technology Studies, Ecocriticism and Climate Change.” Climate Change Skepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
• Hayward, Eva. “Sensational Jellyfish: Aquarium Affects and the Matter of Immersion.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 23.3 (2012).
• Helmreich, Stefan. “Blue-Green Capitalism.” Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
• Helmreich, Stefan. “Nature/Culture/Seawater.” American Anthropologist 131.1 (2011).
• Huggan, Graham, “Kind of Blue; or, The Infinite Melancholy of the Whale.” Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
• Neimanis, Astrida, Cecilia Asberg, & Johan Hedren. “Four Problems, Four Directions for Environmental Humanities: Towards Critical Posthumanities for the Anthropocene.” Ethics & the Environment 20.1 (2015): 67-97.
• Parsons, William. The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Povinelli, Elizabeth. “The Kinship of Tides.” Tidaletics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science. Ed. Stefanie Hessler. Boston: MIT Press, 2018.
• Probyn, Elspeth. “Swimming with Tuna.” Eating the Ocean. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
• Shewry, Teresa. “In a Strange Ocean: Imagining Futures with Others.” Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literatures. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
• Starosielski, Nicole. “Against Flow.” The Undersea Network. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
• Steinberg, Philip. “Of Other Seas: Metaphors and Materialities in Maritime Regions.” Atlantic Studies 10.2 (2013).