My current research considers how nature might function as a speculative project, both in speculative fiction and elsewhere, to trouble the division between natural and unnatural and to posit better future entanglements between human, nonhuman, and more-than-human life. I am also currently doing work in anti-oppressive pedagogies and literary representations of climate catastrophe.

Research Specializations

Environmental Humanities · Speculative/Science Fiction Studies · Environmental Futurity · Settler Colonial Studies · Feminist and Queer Theory · Sexuality Studies · Critical Animal Studies · Cultural Studies · Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy · Digital Humanities · Irish Modernism

Montanari, Melissa & Marika Avenel Brown. “Horror Comedy ‘The Menu’ Delves into Foodie Snobbery When You’re Dying for a Cheeseburger.” The Conversation, 26 January 2023, theconversation.com/horror-comedy-the-menu-delves-into-foodie-snobbery-when-youre-dying-for-a-cheeseburger-197957.

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