Stacy Alaimo

Stacy Alaimo has long been passionately concerned about environmental politics, animal ethics, and social justice, writing from places where those concerns intersect and sometimes collide. Her theory of "trans-corporeality" brings together new materialism, material feminism, environmentalism, and post humanist theories. She is the author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times; Bodily Natures: Science Environment and the Material Self; and Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space. Bodily Natures was awarded the ASLE prize for Ecocriticism, and its concept of trans-corporeality has been widely taken up. She is also the co-editor, with Susan J. Hekman of Material Feminisms, and the volume editor of Matter in the Gender series of MacMillan Handbooks. Alaimo's work has been reprinted and translated into several languages. She is currently researching and writing on marine animal studies, ocean ecologies, and the Blue Humanities. After many years as a Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Arlington, where she directed the interdisciplinary minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, she moved to the University of Oregon, in Eugene, where she is Professor of English and Core Faculty in Environmental Studies. She loves to hike, bike, kayak, scuba dive, free dive, swim, practice Ashtanga and other forms of yoga, and plant native and other plants for birds, butterflies, and other insects. She wishes she could run off and join the Sea Shepherds or volunteer for coral restoration projects, ocean clean ups, and wildlife rehabilitation. She'd also like to become an Oregon Master Naturalist. Maybe some day. https://www.stacyalaimo.com http://www.uta.edu/english/alaimo/research.html https://www.pinterest.com/stacyalaimo/acidifying-seas-anthropocene-ocean/