Anthropocene Histories seminar: Experimental histories in the Anthropocene

In addition to her prize-winning book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, her writing has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is currently writing a biography of the Yukon River watershed.

A cross-disciplinary scholar with training in history, anthropology, and public health, she is the author of four books Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality (co-authored with Andrew Ross); Self-devouring Growth: a Planetary Parable told from Southern Africa; Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic; and Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana, as well as two special issues of Social Text: Collateral Afterworlds (co-edited with Zoe Wool) and Interspecies (co-edited with Jasbir Puar).  She is currently at work on a new book of essays about the relationship between climate change and suicide.

Will Pooley's interests centre on folklore, magic, and witchcraft from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. He has worked collaboratively with writers and artists to write histories as poetry, theatre and, most recently, comics.