This essay is the first piece in the “Commons for Whom?” series, which investigates the role of identity, ethnicity, accessibility, and coloniality in.. READ MORE

Call for Submissions Environmental activists and scholars have renewed calls to reclaim the “commons.” But what should be common and for whom?.. READ MORE

Penguin describes Alexandra Kleeman’s 2021 novel Something New Under the Sun as “all-too-timely”—a difficult label for a book to bear when we’ve been living in “unprecede.. READ MORE

“Transition is inevitable. Justice is not.”.. READ MORE

Maybe you’re contemplating watching Jaws this Halloween season—or perhaps not-watching it, after seeing the New York Times Magazine feature on a rise in shark attacks off the New.. READ MORE

In Summer 2021, three researchers co-taught a remote course on "North American Petrocultu.. READ MORE

Last fall I taught a seminar in Rice University’s FWIS (First-Year Writing Intensive Seminar) program titled “Ecology, Spirituality, and Climate Change.” The course was designed to introduce studen.. READ MORE

Excerpted from a piece soon to be published in The Deep: A Companion, edited by Simon Bacon (Peter Lang: forthcoming) as part of the Genre, Fiction and Film Companions .. READ MORE

By Annie Lowe, Department of English, Rice University.. READ MORE

  A Sugarcane List Katie Ulrich, PhD Candidate, Rice University @katiemulrich.. READ MORE

Let me start by confessing that it is odd for me to begin with content in a piece about pedagogy... READ MORE

In the summer of 2018, I moved to Coastal Carolina University near Myrtle Beach in Conway, South Carolina, from Appalachian State University in the mountains of Western North Carolina... READ MORE

For Kivalina, a small city on the northwest arctic coast of Alaska, “the rate of climate change is no longer measured in decades, but rather in years, months, or even hours... READ MORE

During the fourth week of August 2020, Americans were confronted with competing manifestations of the environmental crisis... READ MORE

The popular conversation about Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel Leave the World Behind risks exhaustion... READ MORE

Water threatens human bodies. Many of us love the water, but it’s toxic... READ MORE

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Welcome to "Toxic Times," a multimodal space for reflecting on the materials and metaphors of toxicity in the twenty-first century, a time of unprecedented evolution within the technologies and the.. READ MORE

Gish Jen’s The Resisters might seem a curious book to share in this ENST forum, especially when I tell you that it’s a story of surveillance systems, craftwork prac.. READ MORE

Welcome to What We’re Reading, a section of Correspondences where writers from various fields reflect on how certain books have impacted their thinking on environmenta.. READ MORE

As part of the Houston Diluvial project sponsored by the Center for Environmental Studies (CES) at Rice University, we are inviting contributions to our channel "Toxic Times," an archive of the eve.. READ MORE

The intersectional nature of the ongoing environmental crisis requires instructors teaching courses in environmental studies to put their own fields of expertise into conversation with an interdisc.. READ MORE