Last updated: February 2024
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Anne Pasek
Scott House, Room 204, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Academic Positions
2020- Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment, Trent University
2020-2026 Tier II Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture and the Environment
2019-2020 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Transitions in Energy, Culture, and Society, University of Alberta
Education
2014-2019 PhD, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
2012-2014 Master of Arts, Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
2009-2011 Bachelors of Arts with Honours, History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Alberta
2006-2008 Diploma, Grant MacEwan University, Studio Art
Research Interests
Climate Change Communication
Media & Cultural Studies
New Materialisms
Energy and Environmental Humanities
Gender Studies
Science and Technology Studies
Research Grants
2021-23 “Decarbonizing the Undersea Cable Network.” The Internet Society Foundation. Co-PIs: Nicole Starosielski, Hunter Vaughan, and Anjali Sugadev. $200,000.
2020 “Trent Low Carbon Research Lab,” John R. Evans Leaders Fund, Canadian Centre for Innovation, $47,516.50.
2020-2026 Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, $600,000.
2014-2015 Fulbright Canada Student Award, $15,000.
2014-2018 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, $80,000.
Publications - Peer Reviewed
Books
Pasek, Anne, Cindy K. Lin, Zane Talley Cooper, and Jordan Kinder. Digital Energetics. Minneapolois: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
Book Chapters
Nicole Starosielski, Hunter Vaughan, Anne Pasek, and Nick Silcox. “Disaggregating the Network Footprint: Why Infrastructural Literacy is Essential to Mitigating the Internet's Environmental Impact,” 111-118. In Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, eds. Antonio López, Adrian Ivakhiv, Stephen Rust, Miriam Tola, Alenda Y. Chang, Kiu-wai Chu. Routledge: London, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003176497-13.
Pasek, Anne, “From Atoms to Electrons: An Energy History and Future of Computing,” 15-42. In Digital Energetics. Minneapolois: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
Pasek, Anne, Cindy K. Lin, Zane Talley Cooper, and Jordan Kinder. “Introduction: Locating Digital Energetics.” In Digital Energetics, 1-15. Minneapolois: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
Anne Pasek. “Provisioning Climate: An Infrastructural Approach to Geoengineering.” In Has It Come to This? The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink, eds. Jean Holly Buck, J.P. Sapinski, and Andreas Malm, 163-175. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Articles
Ryan Katz-Rosene and Anne Pasek. “Spiral-Scaling Climate Action: Lessons From and For the Academic Flying Less Movement.” Environmental Politics 33.2 (2024): 259-280. http://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2193068.
Iago Camargo, Nicole Starosielski, and Anne Pasek, "Flying the Skies to Wire the Seas: Subsea Cables, Remote Work, and the Social Fabric of a Media Industry." Media, Culture & Society, Online First, September 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231198423.
Hunter Vaughan, Anne Pasek, Nicole Starosielski, and Nick Silcox. “ICT Environmentalism and the Sustainability Game.” Journal of Language and Politics. Online First July 2023. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jlp.22125.vau.
Anne Pasek. “On Being Anxious About Digital Carbon Emissions.” Social Media & Society 9.2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231177906.
Anne Pasek, Hunter Vaughan and Nicole Starosielski. “The World Wide Web of Carbon: Towards a Relational Footprinting of ICT's Climate Impacts.” Big Data & Society. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231158994.
Stefan Laser, Anne Pasek, Estrid Sørensen, Mél Hogan, Mace Ojala, Jens Fehrenbacher, Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Leman Çelik, and Koushik Ravi Kumar. “The Environmental Footprint of Social Media Hosting: Tinkering with Mastodon.” EASST Review 41.3 (2022) https://www.easst.net/article/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/.
Anne Pasek, David Morrow, Walker Lee, and Tyler Felgenhauer. “Reflections on a hypothetical decentralized grassroots deployment solar geoengineering scenario.” Futures 132:102811 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102811.
Anne Pasek and Nicole Starosielski. “Seams, Fingers, and Code: Producing Digital Craftsmanship in the Garment Industry.” Television & New Media 22.5 (2021): 465-481. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1527476419897364.
“Carbon Vitalism: Life and the Body in Climate Denial.” Environmental Humanities. 13.1 (May 2021). https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8867175.
“Low Carbon Research: Building a Greener and More Inclusive Academy." Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6 (2020). https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/363.
“Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale.” Humanities 8.4 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3390/h8040159.
“Managing Carbon and Data Flows: Fungible Forms of Mediation in the Cloud.” Culture Machine 18 (April 2019). http://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/managing-carbon-and-data-flows/.
“The Pencil of Error: Glitch Aesthetics and Post-Liquid Intelligence.” Photography and Culture 10.1 (2017): 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2017.1295711.
“Building Nature in Detroit: Ruin Aesthetics, Historical Gaps, and the Urban Agricultural Imagination.” gnovis 11 (Spring 2016): 1-13. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:34477.
“The Problem with Non-Human Phenomenology: Or, What is it Like to Be a Kinect?” InVisible Culture 22 (Winter 2015). http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/the-problem-of-nonhuman-phenomenology-or-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-kinect/.
“Errant Bodies: Relational Aesthetics, Digital Communication, and the Autistic Analogy.” Disability Studies Quarterly 35.4 (December 2015). https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4656/4111.
“Seeing Yourself Strangely: Media Mirroring and the Third Eye Project.” Virtual Creativity 4.2 (Winter 2014): 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1386/mvcr.4.2.121_1.
“Renaissance Robotics: Leonardo da Vinci’s Lost Knight and Enlivened Materiality.” Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture 7 (Fall 2014). http://shiftjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/01_Pasek.pdf.
“Disorientations: John Singer Sargent and Queer Phenomenology.” Electronic Melbourne Art Journal (EMAJ) 7 (November 30 2013). https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:34471.
Book Reviews
Review of: The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change, Journal of Environmental Media 2.1 (2021): 161-165. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00046_5.
Radha Hegde and Anne Pasek. Review of Keywords for Media Studies. eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. The Communication Review 22.2 (2019): 165-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2019.1607999.
Publications - In Press
Book Chapters
“Online.” In Energized: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy and Environment, ed. Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2024.
Anne Pasek. “Unalienating Carbon: Affect and Labour in Emerging Carbon Sequestration Markets’ Theories of Value.” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.
Publications - Other
Nicole Starosielski, Iago Bojczuk, Anne Pasek, George N. Ramírez, Nicholas R. Silcox, Anjali Sugadev, and Hunter Vaughan, “Report on Best Practices in Subsea Telecommunications Sustainability,” SubOptic Foundation, January 2023, https://suboptic.org/page/sustainable-subsea-networks-report.
Patrick Brodie, Juliet Pinto, Anne Pasek, and Alix Johnson. “What Is Environmental Media Studies so Far?” Journal of Environmental Media 4.1 (2023): 3–8. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00093_2.
Theodora Dryer, Tamara Kneese, Anne Pasek, Cindy Lin, Andrew Meade McGee, Anuhba Singh, Johannah Rodgers and Megan Wiessner. “Introducing Carbon Computing.” Branch Magazine 5 (Summer 2023): https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-5/introducing-carbon-computing/.
Anne Pasek and Megan Wiessner. “Carbon Accounting and Computing.” Branch Magazine 5 (Summer 2023): https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-5/carbon-accounting-and-computing/.
Anne Pasek, Theodora Dryer and Andrew Meade McGee. “Policy and Tech | Tech and Policy.” Branch Magazine 5 (Summer 2023): https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-5/policy-and-tech-tech-and-policy/.
Anne Pasek. “Getting Into Fights With Data Centres: Or, a Modest Proposal for Reframing the Climate Politics of ICT.” White Paper. Experimental Methods and Media Lab, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. July 2023. https://emmlab.info/Resources_page/Data%20Center%20Fights_digital.pdf
Sarah Rayner and Anne Pasek, “Zine-Based Conferencing: A Guide,” White Paper. Experimental Methods and Media Lab/Low-Carbon Research Methods Group. Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. March 2023. https://emmlab.info/Resources_page/EMMLAB_WhitePaper_ZineBasedConferencing_2023.pdf.
Anne Pasek and Ryan M. Katz-Rosene. “Scaling Up Flying Less,” Behavioural Public Policy Blog. 3 May 2023. https://bppblog.com/2023/05/03/scaling-up-flying-less/.
Eds. Emily Roehl, Caleb Wellum, and Anne Pasek Energy In/Out of Place. Edmonton, Alberta: Mystery Spot Books and Petrocultures Research Group, 2023. https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:49811.
“Decarbonisation and the Arts Consensus Statement.” Ed. Anne Pasek. Stanley Picker Gallery/Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline. October 2022. https://sunlightdoesntneedapipeline.com/2022/08/17/digital-decarbonisation-consensus-conjectures/.
Anne Pasek, Sarah Rayner, Maya Livio, and Devin Short. “Welcome to DIY Methods 2022.” DIY Methods 2022 Conference Proceedings, v- xv. Low-Carbon Research Methods Group. 19 September 2022. https://doi.org/10.17613/dq0x-gs49.
Jen Liu et al. “Towards a Material Ethics of Computing.” Ed. Anne Pasek. CHI 2022 Workshop Report. July 2022. http://lowcarbonmethods.com/MaterialEthics.html.
Rachel Webb Jekanowski, Anne Pasek, and Kate Elliott. “The Ways We Work: Part 3, Working Solutions to Unsustainable Academia.” Historians for The Future. 20 May 2022. https://historiansforfuture.org/the-ways-we-work-part-3-working-solutions-to-unsustainable-academia/.
Rachel Webb Jekanowski, Anne Pasek, and Kate Elliott. “The Ways We Work: Part 2, Extractivism in the University.” Historians for The Future. 1 April 2022. https://historiansforfuture.org/the-ways-we-work-part-2-extractivism-in-the-university/.
Rachel Webb Jekanowski, Anne Pasek, and Kate Elliott. “The Ways We Work: Part 1, Oily Entanglements.” Historians for the Future. 28 January 2022. https://historiansforfuture.org/the-ways-we-work-part-1-oily-entanglements/.
Anne Pasek and Hunter Vaughan. “Blue Solutions to Greening the Internet.” In The Cost of Convenience. Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy. Cambridge, UK. 22 September 2021. https://www.mctd.ac.uk/zine-the-cost-of-convenience/.
Anne Pasek and Caleb Wellum. “Helios 2: Anne Pasek on Changing Methods in a Changing Climate.” Energy Humanities. 13 July 2021. https://www.energyhumanities.ca/news/helios-2-anne-pasek-on-changing-methods-in-a-changing-climate.
Caleb Wellum, Anne Pasek, and Emily Roehl. “How to Plan Successful E-conferences During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The Conversation. 16 November 2020. https://theconversation.com/how-to-plan-successful-e-conferences-during-and-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-144149.
Anne Pasek, Caleb Wellum, and Emily Roehl. “Making and Meeting Online: A White Paper on E-Conferences, Workshops, and other Experiments in Low-Carbon Research Exchange.” Petrocultures Research Group. https://www.energyhumanities.ca/news/making-and-meeting-online.
Anne Pasek. “Seeing Carbon Through Silicon.” Logic Magazine (Winter 2019). https://logicmag.io/nature/seeing-carbon-through-silicon/.
Anne Pasek, Rena Bivens and Mél Hogan “Data Segregation and Algorithmic Amplification: A Conversation with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.” Canadian Journal of Communication 44.3 (2019): 455-469. https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2019v44n3a3653.
Radha Hegde and Anne Pasek. Review of Keywords for Media Studies. eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. The Communication Review 22.2 (2019): 165-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2019.1607999.
Anne Pasek and Radha Hegde. “Introduction: Corporeal Media.” Feminist Media Studies 19.2 (April 2019): 288-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1573545.
“Tripping Over Our Bootstraps: Open Source Ecology and the Promise of Liberational Technology.” Model View Culture 22 (June 8 2015). https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/tripping-over-our-bootstraps-open-source-ecology-and-the-promise-of-liberational-technology.
Research Creation Projects
Anne Pasek. “Everyday Oil: Energy Infrastructures and Places that Have Yet to Become Strange.” Heliotrope. 14 September 2020. https://www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/everyday-oil.
Juniper Mitchell, Anne Pasek, and Kosta Gligorijevic. “For Every Hill a Song.” The Radio Broadcast. Audio drama. 12 December 2014. https://soundcloud.com/theradiobroadcast/episode-1-for-every-hill-a-song.
Invited Lectures & Panels
Anne Pasek, “Solar Folk Art: New Approaches to Studying Popular Apprehensions of Photovoltaic Futures and Aesthetics,” PLASMA (Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art), University of Buffalo, 8 April 2024.
Anne Pasek, Cindy Kaiying Lin, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, and Jordan B. Kinder. ““Digital Energetics,” ADM+S Centre, RMIT University, ELECTRONICS - ECOLOGIES workshop series, 22 November 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xFXSMJ6oEU&list=PLE_y90GftjpY1jBRaT0kdJxZV1SkF2-Zm&index=2.
“Energy/Labour/Climate: Thinking Across the History and Future of Computation in a Warming World.” Science Literacy Week. McGill University. 22 September 2023.
Anne Pasek, Cindy Kaiying Lin, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, and Jordan B. Kinder. “Digital Energetics.” Life In Pixels, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 8 September 2023, https://vimeo.com/862488043.
“Print Politics.” Collective for Multimodal Makers, Publishers, Collaborators & Teachers (CoMMPCT), Society for Visual Anthropology, and University of Cincinnati, Department of Anthropology. Online. 30 June 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArCOe_1GtfQ.
“Place, Print, Screens & Low-Carbon Research-Exchange.” 2023 Beatrice and Arthur Minden Symposium on the Environment. University of Toronto, Toronto. 6 May 2023.
“Digital Decarbonization,” SUSTAIN, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK. 14 April 2023.
“Digital Climate Entanglements: From Phatic to DIY Data Infrastructures.” 6 March 2023. Planetary Resources, Data Centres, And Scientific Knowledge Production Winter Webinar Series. Research Centre Virtual Life Worlds, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
Anne Pasek and Nicole Starosielski. “Chips, Heat, & Fiber: A Media Theory of Silicon.” Silica Signals, Material Worlds Discussion Series, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, 23 February 2023.
“Biocharmed: (Affective) Value Forms in Emerging Carbon Removal Markets.” Anthropocene Speaker Series. Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Society and Culture at Concordia University. 20 January 2023.
“Low-Carbon Research Methods: Equity and Energy Transitions in Academic Work.” Research Group on Environment, Territory and Society. 16 November 2022, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
“Decarbonising the Arts.” Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline Media Arts Festival, 7 October 2022. Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Kingston, UK.
“Digital Media Does Materiality Differently: Towards an Energy Analytic of the Bit.” Media, Literature, and Theory Series, The Canadian Comparative Literature Association’s Comparative Materialities Research Group. 1 June 2022. Online.
Anne Pasek, Nicole Starosielski and Hunter Vaughan. “The World Wide Web of Carbon: Towards a Relational Accounting of ICT's Climate Impacts,” Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy Seminar Series. Cambridge University, UK. 14 March 2022.
“The Future of Neuro-AI: Climate Change.” UNIQUE Student Symposium 2022: Dynamics of Learning and Optimization in Brains and Machines, Unifying Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence in Québec (UNIQUE). Montreal. 10 June 2022.
“We Need to Talk About Crypto: NFTs and the Future of Literature in Canada.” Writers Guild of Alberta and Edmonton Arts Council. Online. 21 April 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aV5QMpU3Hw.
“New Keywords for Our Struggle: Climate/Capital.” Modern Language Association Radical Caucus Keywords Series. 4 December 2021. Online.
“Climate Denialism and Culture: From Structures of Finance to Structures of Feeling.” Indiana University, Voices in Cultural Studies Lecture Series, 5 November 2021, Bloomington, Indiana.
“Low-Carbon Research: Equity and Energy Transitions for the Academy.” Oregon State University Anthropology Lecture Series. Corvallis, Oregon. 15 October 2021.
“What Can Methodology Do for the Climate?” Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. Oslo, Norway. 22 September 2021.
“EH/DH: Energy Humanities and the Digital Turn.” University of Toronto Digital Humanities Network Lecture Series. University of Toronto. 30 March 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCmuJTbMCrg.
“Climate Denial: A Cultural Studies Approach.” Cultural Studies Graduate Program Salon Seminar, Trent University, 19 November 2020.
“Making Carbon Count: A History of Footprinting and Feeling About Carbon.” Trent School of the Environment Seminar Series. Peterborough. October 2020.
“Stakes and Barriers to a Low-Carbon Academy.” Humane Infrastructures. University of California Los Angeles. March 2020.
Podcasts
“Efficient, with Anne Pasek,” The Data Fix, 12 Februrary 2024, https://pca.st/yfvk0jxi.
“Anne Pasek on Teaching, Carbon Culture, Greenwashing, and Communications Capitalism,” Cultural Studies, 8 February 2024, https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-bqgx3-1574c91.
“Will the Internet Suck Us Dry?” Things That Go Boom. PRX. 18 September 2023. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-the-internet-suck-us-dry/id1324629357?i=1000628228968.
“Dr. Anne Pasek,” Gettin' Air with Terry Greene: The Open Pedagogy Podcast, 3 August 2023, https://www.spreaker.com/user/voicedradio/ga-with-anne-pasek.
“H4F talk with Anne Pasek: Carbon and Sustainable Academia,” Historians for the Future Podcast, 8 April 2022, https://anchor.fm/histforfuture/episodes/H4F-talk-with-Anne-Pasek-Carbon-and-Sustainable-Academia-S02E01-e1gl8l9.
“Loons with Balloons,” Reviewer 2 Does Geoengineering, 13 August 2021, https://open.spotify.com/episode/4KyQcSTPvwSS707QniJRb1?si=MNPVp2mmRNi0EcKN_afAgA&dl_branch=1&nd=1.
The Data Centre Industrial Complex Podcast, Episodes 1-3, 2020-2022, https://soundcloud.com/enviromentalmedialab.
Select Conference Presentations
Anne Pasek, Swati Mehta, Kees Schuller, “Citizen Science and Citizen Speculations: Cyan, Open Hardware, and Grassroots DAC Encounters,” Society for the Social Study of Science Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 11 November 2023.
Anne Pasek, “Towards a Politics of Circulation for Research-Creation,” A Research-Creation Episteme? Practice-based Research and Institutional Critique, Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, 30 October 30, 2023.
“On Being Anxious about Digital Carbon Emissions,” Canadian Communications Association, Congress 2023, York University, Toronto. 30 May 2023.
Anne Pasek, Nicole Starosielski, and Hunter Vaughan. “What’s the Carbon Footprint of the Internet?” Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) Conference. 1 October 2022. Toronto.
“On War Rooms, War Media, and Petropolitics,” Petrocultures 2022. 24 August 2022. Norway.
“The World Wide Web of Carbon: Methodological Tensions in ICT Footprinting and a Relational Accounting for the Climate Impacts of Internet Infrastructure." Canadian Communication Association Conference. Online. 17-20 May 2022.
Anne Pasek, Kristian Nielsen, Nicole Starosielski, and Meg Congram, “A Climate Assessment Model for Subsea Telecommunications Cables: Early Efforts, Directions, and a Call for Participation.” International Cable Protection Committee Virtual Plenary. Online. 26 April 2022.
“From Atoms to Bits to Electrons, and Back Again: Towards an Energy Analytic of Digital Media.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Chicago. 31 March 2022.
“Solar Protocol.” Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting. Toronto. 7 October 2021.
“Carbon’s Four Fixes: A Relational Typology for Communicating about Carbon and Thinking Elementally.” Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting. Toronto. 8 October 2021.
“Energy for the War Room: Extractive Populism and its Social (Media) Imaginaries.” Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference. Online. June 2021.
“Social Justice, Activism, and Environmental Media Studies Roundtable.” Chair and Panelist. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Online. March 2021.
Emily Roehl, Anne Pasek, and Caleb Wellum “Virtual Conferences on the Brink: Critical Reflections on Research-Creation and Digital Collaboration in Times of Crisis.” Humanities on the Brink, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Annual Conference. Online. July 2020.
Ryan Katz-Rosene and Anne Pasek. “Heterogeneous Philosophies of Change in the Academic Flying Less Movement.” Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference. Online. June 2020.
“A Media Genealogy of the War Room.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Environment and Media Scholarly Interest Group E-Conference. Online. April 2020.
“What’s in a Footprint? Rival Models of Communication and Materiality in Environmental vs. Carbon Footprinting Techniques.” Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference. Vancouver. June 2019.
“Energy, Infrastructure, Data: Microsoft and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” International Communications Association Annual Conference. Washington, DC. May 2019.
“Placing Carbon in a Carbon Neutral Cloud.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference. Seattle. March 2019.
“Accounting for Carbon Neutrality: Microsoft’s Carbon Ledger.” Environmental Impact of Data-Driven Technologies, Data & Society Research Institute. New York City. November 2018.
“Carbon Vitalism: Bodily Claims and Reparative Readings across the Carbon Cycle.” Petrocultures. Glasgow. August 2018.
“Towards a Reparative Theory of Energy.” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference. Toronto. March 2018.
“Un-alienating Carbon.” Knowledge/Culture/Ecology. Santiago, Chile. November 2017.
“Thinking Carbon Through Silicon: The Digital Revolution as a Conceptual Model for Bright Green Futures.” SIGCIS Annual Conference. Philadelphia. October 2017.
“Visualizing Climate; Visualizing Scale.” Mediating Climate Change. Leeds, UK. July 2017.
“Accountability and Accounting Media in Carbon Neutral Corporate Polices.” Selling Green: The Media Greenwashing of Climate Change. New York University. New York City. November 2018.
Select Honours & Awards
2023 (Nominee) Broken Pencil Zine Awards (non-fiction), Getting Into Fights With Data Centres
2022 Outstanding Peer Reviewer, Leonardo
2022 (Nominee) School of Graduate Studies Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentorship for New Mentors, Trent University Centre for Teaching and Learning
2021 Research Merit Award, Trent University
2021 4S Making & Doing Award, Society for the Social Study of Science
2021 Trent GSA Good Supervisor Campaign
2020 MCC Dissertation Distinction Award.
2017 SCMS Environment and Media Doctoral Student Paper Prize
Teaching
ERST 3502H, Environmental and Climate Communication (Trent University, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024)
CUST 3190H – Fashion and Power (Trent University, Winter 2023)
CUST 3590H, Climate and Culture (Trent University, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
CUST 1535H, Intro to Media Studies (Trent University, Winter 2021)
ENGL 103, Case Studies in Research: Climate Change (University of Alberta, Fall 2019)
MCC-UE 1027, Media and the Environment (New York University, Spring 2019)
MCC-UE 1345, Fashion and Power (New York University, Summer 2018)
MCC-UE 14, Media & Cultural Analysis (New York University, Spring 2018)
Editorial Positions
2023- Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Media
2019-2022 Reviews Editor, Journal of Environmental Media
2015-2019 Editorial Assistant, Feminist Media Studies
Public Outreach
2021-2023 Participant Member, Global Green Media Network
2021 Lecturer, Trent Talks High School Edition
2013 Writer in Residence, Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture
2011 Community Art Curator, The Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada
University & Community Service
2022- Coordinating Committee, Trent Centre for Communicating Conservation
2022- Board Member and Vice President, Artspace
2022- Conference Organizer, DIY Methods
2022 Workshop Organizer, “Towards a Material Ethics of Computing.” CHI 2022.
2020- Chair, Environment and E-Waste Committee, SCMS
2020 Conference Organizer, Energy In/Out of Place
2020 E-conference Organizer, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Media and Environment Scholarly Interest Group
2019- Advisory Board Member, Environmental Media Lab, University of Calgary
2019-2020 Mentor, International Youth Deliberation on Energy Futures
2019-2020 Organizer, Climate Justice Edmonton
2018-2019 Communications Committee Member, 350 Brooklyn
2015-2018 Communications Committee Co-Chair, GSOC-UAW-Local 2110 NYU Graduate Workers’ Union
2015-2017 Union Steward, GSOC-UAW-Local 2110 NYU Graduate Workers’ Union
2015 Unit Representative, GSOC-UAW-Local 2110 NYU Graduate Workers’ Union