Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
I am a professor at UCLA in the English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability who works in the Caribbean and Indigenous Pacific Island studies with a focus on literature, arts, and ecology. My research contributes to the fields of feminist and postcolonial ecocriticism, critical ocean studies, island studies, demilitarization, and the environmental humanities.
I am the author of Allegories of the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019) and Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Literatures (University of Hawai’i Press, 2007), and co-editor of Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches (Routledge, 2015), Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment, (Oxford UP, 2011), and Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (University of Virginia Press, 2005), in addition to numerous journal issues on critical ocean, island, and militarism studies.
I teach a range of postcolonial and Indigenous literature courses in the English, Global Studies, and Honors Program at UCLA about imagining and representing climate change and the Anthropocene, the cultural politics of food, representations of empire and the environment, as well as courses on the oceanic imaginary in literature, film, and art.
My research has been supported by institutions such as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (LMU, Munich), The Käte Hamburger Research Center, global dis:connect (LMU, Munich), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the UCLA Global Studies Program, the Fulbright Program, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities.