Heather Houser
@heatherhouser.bsky.social
Mody C Boatright Regents Professor in American & English Literature at UT Austin. Books: Ecosickness (2014) and Infowhelm (2020). Books in progress: Our Bodies, Our Climate (public scholarship) and Girl Striving (memoir). heatherhouser.com
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🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!
A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.
A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.
PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University
Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!
A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.
A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.
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Check out Allen MacDuffie's review of Cates Baldridge's "Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee," published in 2024 by @uvapress.bsky.social #envhum #evhist #aghit #ecocrit
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September 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Check out Allen MacDuffie's review of Cates Baldridge's "Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee," published in 2024 by @uvapress.bsky.social #envhum #evhist #aghit #ecocrit
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Submit your #envhum work for ASLE Spotlight 2026, deadline October 1, 2025, details here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
September 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Submit your #envhum work for ASLE Spotlight 2026, deadline October 1, 2025, details here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
Home | The Tidewater Initiative
We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu
August 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
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Third book in our (with @samanthapinto.bsky.social) Black Feminism in the Edge Series ( @dukepress.bsky.social) comes out in March! Congrats to Justin Mann (and check out the gorgeous cover). www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the...
Breaking the World
www.dukeupress.edu
August 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Third book in our (with @samanthapinto.bsky.social) Black Feminism in the Edge Series ( @dukepress.bsky.social) comes out in March! Congrats to Justin Mann (and check out the gorgeous cover). www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the...
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#academicjob: Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies.
Northfield, MN, United States
Deadline: September 22, 2025
Info: fa-ewur-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
#envhum #envhist #indigenousstudies
Northfield, MN, United States
Deadline: September 22, 2025
Info: fa-ewur-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
#envhum #envhist #indigenousstudies
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
The Department of Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position in the area of North American Indigenous Environmental Relations at the Assistan...
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August 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#academicjob: Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies.
Northfield, MN, United States
Deadline: September 22, 2025
Info: fa-ewur-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
#envhum #envhist #indigenousstudies
Northfield, MN, United States
Deadline: September 22, 2025
Info: fa-ewur-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
#envhum #envhist #indigenousstudies
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Of Supermarkets, Shipwrecks, and Seasons: A Conversation with Sarah Dimick, @thehanopticon.bsky.social, and Ben Stanley - @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social
edgeeffects.net/sarah-dimick...
#envhum #ecocrit #clifi #foodstudies
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#envhum #ecocrit #clifi #foodstudies
Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, & Ben Stanley Discuss Their New Titles - Edge Effects
Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley discuss their new books and critical topics in the environmental humanities.
edgeeffects.net
August 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Of Supermarkets, Shipwrecks, and Seasons: A Conversation with Sarah Dimick, @thehanopticon.bsky.social, and Ben Stanley - @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social
edgeeffects.net/sarah-dimick...
#envhum #ecocrit #clifi #foodstudies
edgeeffects.net/sarah-dimick...
#envhum #ecocrit #clifi #foodstudies
We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist
Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
August 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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the academic year 2025/2026 has started here in Norway and we are slowly returning to our offices - for every one in town, @greenhouseuis.net will resume next week and Anna Grasskamp and her team from Oslo are kicking off the autumn term events on 27 August !
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August 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
the academic year 2025/2026 has started here in Norway and we are slowly returning to our offices - for every one in town, @greenhouseuis.net will resume next week and Anna Grasskamp and her team from Oslo are kicking off the autumn term events on 27 August !
#envhum
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“We’re reviewing [National Climate Assessments], and we will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those reports,” said Wright, who is one of the main supporters of the administration’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda to boost fossil fuels" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’
Ex-fossil fuel executive Chris Wright said administration is reviewing national assessments made by past governments
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
“We’re reviewing [National Climate Assessments], and we will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those reports,” said Wright, who is one of the main supporters of the administration’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda to boost fossil fuels" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Better link to the issue here! Intergenerational Feminisms with @jennifercnash.bsky.social and so many great folks! journals.sagepub.com/toc/ftya/26/3
Feminist Theory - Volume 26, Number 3
Table of contents for Feminist Theory, 26, 3
journals.sagepub.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Better link to the issue here! Intergenerational Feminisms with @jennifercnash.bsky.social and so many great folks! journals.sagepub.com/toc/ftya/26/3
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Talking to @smartgirl07.bsky.social about being labeled the "smart girl" in her family, being a first-gen college and grad school student (esp. in the humanities!), and, you know, libraries (cue the study music).
Calling all Smart Girl smarties. If you want a deeper dive into the book, come hang out with Sam and me!
www.buzzsprout.com/2459505/epis...
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August 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Talking to @smartgirl07.bsky.social about being labeled the "smart girl" in her family, being a first-gen college and grad school student (esp. in the humanities!), and, you know, libraries (cue the study music).
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We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
August 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
Environmental humanities & adjacent scholars: interested in collaborating on a panel for this @carsoncenter.bsky.social conference in July?!
#envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
#envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
Call for Papers: “The Past and Future of the Environmental Humanities” - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
August 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Environmental humanities & adjacent scholars: interested in collaborating on a panel for this @carsoncenter.bsky.social conference in July?!
#envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
#envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
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It's happening . . . starting tomorrow with @smartgirl07.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It's happening . . . starting tomorrow with @smartgirl07.bsky.social
I spoke to @austinchronicle.bsky.social's Brant Bingamon about my decision to leave UT Austin for a new life & job. They're giving much needed attention to the plight of public universities in the current troubles. www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
Right-Wing Crackdowns Drive Academics Away From UT and the U.S.
Staff morale, federal funds, and state confidence dry up
www.austinchronicle.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I spoke to @austinchronicle.bsky.social's Brant Bingamon about my decision to leave UT Austin for a new life & job. They're giving much needed attention to the plight of public universities in the current troubles. www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
Cover story about UT Michener Center alum and brilliant writer (and lovely person) Carrie Moore!
Michener Center alum Carrie R. Moore threads Southern history into compelling fiction.
Carrie R. Moore Makes Her Way Home in Debut Story Collection
Michener Center alum threads Southern history into compelling fiction
www.austinchronicle.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Cover story about UT Michener Center alum and brilliant writer (and lovely person) Carrie Moore!
A lot of the reasons I love @marketplace.org in today's episode #menopause #elderpreneurs www.marketplace.org/shows/shows/...
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July 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A lot of the reasons I love @marketplace.org in today's episode #menopause #elderpreneurs www.marketplace.org/shows/shows/...
Some thots on getting real support for women and families instead of bogus pronatalism. Austin American-Statesman online & in print tmrw www.statesman.com/story/opinio...
Mothers don't need medals. Families need health care and paid leave | Opinion
We've lost the plot when leaders tell women to keep reproducing as they cut SNAP and health care and neglect America's appalling rates of maternal …
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July 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Some thots on getting real support for women and families instead of bogus pronatalism. Austin American-Statesman online & in print tmrw www.statesman.com/story/opinio...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism
This essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol...
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June 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
Out now: my article on reproductive wondering in Critical Inquiry! @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Open access: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/KI7NH...
June 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Out now: my article on reproductive wondering in Critical Inquiry! @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Open access: www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/KI7NH...
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The Texas Legislature passed a bill Friday to allow a period for prayer or religious study — part of a larger national movement to infuse more Christianity into schools.
The bill goes now to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it.
The bill goes now to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it.
Prayer period in schools backed by Texas Legislature
A House vote showed broad support for the measure that would let districts set aside time for prayer or religious study.
www.texastribune.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Texas Legislature passed a bill Friday to allow a period for prayer or religious study — part of a larger national movement to infuse more Christianity into schools.
The bill goes now to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it.
The bill goes now to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it.
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A Texas House committee on Friday passed a comprehensive crackdown on abortion pills that also contains a controversial provision that says it cannot be challenged in state court before it is enforced.
The bill goes now to the House for a full vote.
The bill goes now to the House for a full vote.
Bill to stop flow of abortion pills into Texas clears House panel
The bill also contains a controversial provision that says it cannot be challenged in state court before it is enforced. It goes now to the House for a full vote.
www.texastribune.org
May 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A Texas House committee on Friday passed a comprehensive crackdown on abortion pills that also contains a controversial provision that says it cannot be challenged in state court before it is enforced.
The bill goes now to the House for a full vote.
The bill goes now to the House for a full vote.