Rebecca Tillett
@rebeccatillett1.bsky.social
Associate Professor of American Literatures and Cultures at UEA: founding member of the Indigenous Studies Research Network (ISRN), U.K.; co-lead for Green BAAS; Climate Fiction; Environmental Humanities
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I'm happy to share the open-access book "Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities", which includes my article.
Big thanks to Gabriela Jarzębowska-Lipińska, Krzysztof Skonieczny, and Paweł Piszczatowski.
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Big thanks to Gabriela Jarzębowska-Lipińska, Krzysztof Skonieczny, and Paweł Piszczatowski.
shorturl.at/8TzCi
Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities
The book examines non-Western frameworks in environmental humanities, critiquing dominant paradigms and advancing discourse on diverse human-environment relationships in global contexts.
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August 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'm happy to share the open-access book "Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities", which includes my article.
Big thanks to Gabriela Jarzębowska-Lipińska, Krzysztof Skonieczny, and Paweł Piszczatowski.
shorturl.at/8TzCi
Big thanks to Gabriela Jarzębowska-Lipińska, Krzysztof Skonieczny, and Paweł Piszczatowski.
shorturl.at/8TzCi
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Our new series of short videos showcases the work of our interdisciplinary experts in HaSS Cornwall at @exeter.ac.uk .
The latest features Emma Kluge on how our Environmental Humanities research and teaching reorients our historical and political narratives from the perspective of the ocean.
The latest features Emma Kluge on how our Environmental Humanities research and teaching reorients our historical and political narratives from the perspective of the ocean.
Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...
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Oceans - Dr Emma Kluge, Lecturer in Colonial and Environmental History
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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August 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Our new series of short videos showcases the work of our interdisciplinary experts in HaSS Cornwall at @exeter.ac.uk .
The latest features Emma Kluge on how our Environmental Humanities research and teaching reorients our historical and political narratives from the perspective of the ocean.
The latest features Emma Kluge on how our Environmental Humanities research and teaching reorients our historical and political narratives from the perspective of the ocean.
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The latest issue of RESISTANCE is available now!
Featuring articles on California sea-level rise, "ghosts" of public environmental humanities, and a personal account of the 2024 Valencia floods.
Read for free here: bit.ly/4o78sN5
Featuring articles on California sea-level rise, "ghosts" of public environmental humanities, and a personal account of the 2024 Valencia floods.
Read for free here: bit.ly/4o78sN5
July 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The latest issue of RESISTANCE is available now!
Featuring articles on California sea-level rise, "ghosts" of public environmental humanities, and a personal account of the 2024 Valencia floods.
Read for free here: bit.ly/4o78sN5
Featuring articles on California sea-level rise, "ghosts" of public environmental humanities, and a personal account of the 2024 Valencia floods.
Read for free here: bit.ly/4o78sN5
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Congratulations to our colleague Dr Elsa Devienne (@elsadevienne.bsky.social) on winning the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize (awarded by BAAS/UEA's Arthur Miller Institute of American Studies) for 'Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles' (OUP, 2024).
June 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Congratulations to our colleague Dr Elsa Devienne (@elsadevienne.bsky.social) on winning the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize (awarded by BAAS/UEA's Arthur Miller Institute of American Studies) for 'Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles' (OUP, 2024).
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We honour #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay with a collection of vital and vibrant books by Indigenous authors.
alllitup.ca/book-list/books-for-national-indigenous-peoples-day/
alllitup.ca/book-list/books-for-national-indigenous-peoples-day/
June 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We honour #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay with a collection of vital and vibrant books by Indigenous authors.
alllitup.ca/book-list/books-for-national-indigenous-peoples-day/
alllitup.ca/book-list/books-for-national-indigenous-peoples-day/
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
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This will be our *LAST* GREEN BAAS writing session for this academic year (because I will be at this great conference on Friday 4 July www.eventbrite.com/signin/?refe...)
Join us for Let's Write Together Fridays this Friday 6 June 2-4PM GMT
Register here us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us for Let's Write Together Fridays this Friday 6 June 2-4PM GMT
Register here us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
June 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This will be our *LAST* GREEN BAAS writing session for this academic year (because I will be at this great conference on Friday 4 July www.eventbrite.com/signin/?refe...)
Join us for Let's Write Together Fridays this Friday 6 June 2-4PM GMT
Register here us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us for Let's Write Together Fridays this Friday 6 June 2-4PM GMT
Register here us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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✅ Do you teach about the US & the environment?
✅ Do you work in the UK?
Then please take this survey ✍️ put together by Sam Hawksford White on behalf of BAAS @officialbaas.bsky.social
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/green...
It'll result in a report showcasing good practice
#envhist #envhum
✅ Do you work in the UK?
Then please take this survey ✍️ put together by Sam Hawksford White on behalf of BAAS @officialbaas.bsky.social
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/green...
It'll result in a report showcasing good practice
#envhist #envhum
Green BAAS Audit on Environmental Teaching in British American Studies
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
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June 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
✅ Do you teach about the US & the environment?
✅ Do you work in the UK?
Then please take this survey ✍️ put together by Sam Hawksford White on behalf of BAAS @officialbaas.bsky.social
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/green...
It'll result in a report showcasing good practice
#envhist #envhum
✅ Do you work in the UK?
Then please take this survey ✍️ put together by Sam Hawksford White on behalf of BAAS @officialbaas.bsky.social
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/green...
It'll result in a report showcasing good practice
#envhist #envhum
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Today’s my younger son’s high school graduation, but through proud Dad tears I’m still sharing my 227th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
#ScholarSunday Thread 227
Shared on June 1, 2025
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June 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Today’s my younger son’s high school graduation, but through proud Dad tears I’m still sharing my 227th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
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This week on Wonkhe: For Peter Sutoris, the humanities hold the key to understanding and responding to the many civilisational crises we face
Our future may depend on the humanities
For Peter Sutoris, the humanities hold the key to understanding and responding to the many civilisational crises we face
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May 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This week on Wonkhe: For Peter Sutoris, the humanities hold the key to understanding and responding to the many civilisational crises we face
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Join us for an exclusive webinar introducing our Environmental Humanities e-Book Collection! Discover how this innovative digital resource brings together cutting-edge scholarship at the crossroads of literature, environmental studies, and cultural analysis.
Wed. 5/28 1pm EST:
Wed. 5/28 1pm EST:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Environmental Humanities e-Book Collection Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join us for an exclusive webinar introducing the Duke University Press: Environmental Humanities e-Book Collection. Discover how this innovative digital resource brings together cutting-edge…
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May 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us for an exclusive webinar introducing our Environmental Humanities e-Book Collection! Discover how this innovative digital resource brings together cutting-edge scholarship at the crossroads of literature, environmental studies, and cultural analysis.
Wed. 5/28 1pm EST:
Wed. 5/28 1pm EST:
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This project was a real labour of love and hope during the dark times of UK HE as well as the overwhelm of climate change, where cause for hope can seem illusive. Thanks to all of our wonderful contributors
Delighted that our double special issue of Comparative American Studies is now out. Thanks to all our wonderful contributors, and my fabulous colleague and co-editor @wendymcmahon.bsky.social
#EnvironmentalHumanities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#EnvironmentalHumanities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Wild Possibilities’: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene: Part 1
This special issue of Comparative American Studies explores the literatures of the American hemisphere and their engagement with Anthropogenic climate change. The complex and contentious histories,...
www.tandfonline.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This project was a real labour of love and hope during the dark times of UK HE as well as the overwhelm of climate change, where cause for hope can seem illusive. Thanks to all of our wonderful contributors
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🚨New issue alert! 🚨 ‘Wild Possibilities’: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene: Part 1 👇 Part 2 coming soon! A huge achievement!
Delighted that our double special issue of Comparative American Studies is now out. Thanks to all our wonderful contributors, and my fabulous colleague and co-editor @wendymcmahon.bsky.social
#EnvironmentalHumanities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#EnvironmentalHumanities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Wild Possibilities’: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene: Part 1
This special issue of Comparative American Studies explores the literatures of the American hemisphere and their engagement with Anthropogenic climate change. The complex and contentious histories,...
www.tandfonline.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🚨New issue alert! 🚨 ‘Wild Possibilities’: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene: Part 1 👇 Part 2 coming soon! A huge achievement!
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⏰ Mark your calendar Am studies and #envhist folks!
📅 On Thursday 26 June 3-4pm GMT, GREEN BAAS is hosting a conversation with the authors of 2 new books on the US &the evnt @rebwright.bsky.social & @parhee.bsky.social
@officialbaas.bsky.social
Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅 On Thursday 26 June 3-4pm GMT, GREEN BAAS is hosting a conversation with the authors of 2 new books on the US &the evnt @rebwright.bsky.social & @parhee.bsky.social
@officialbaas.bsky.social
Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
⏰ Mark your calendar Am studies and #envhist folks!
📅 On Thursday 26 June 3-4pm GMT, GREEN BAAS is hosting a conversation with the authors of 2 new books on the US &the evnt @rebwright.bsky.social & @parhee.bsky.social
@officialbaas.bsky.social
Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅 On Thursday 26 June 3-4pm GMT, GREEN BAAS is hosting a conversation with the authors of 2 new books on the US &the evnt @rebwright.bsky.social & @parhee.bsky.social
@officialbaas.bsky.social
Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
So pleased this is finally out! Do check out the full double special issue '"Wild Possibilities": American Literature, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Seeing What Might Lie Beyond”: Hope and Indigenous Futurisms in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves
This essay explores the role played by hope in an era of climate emergency, and how in Cherie Dimaline’s (Georgian Bay Métis) prize-winning novel The Marrow Thieves (2017) hope not only emerges fro...
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May 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So pleased this is finally out! Do check out the full double special issue '"Wild Possibilities": American Literature, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Delighted that our double special issue of Comparative American Studies is now out. Thanks to all our wonderful contributors, and my fabulous colleague and co-editor @wendymcmahon.bsky.social
#EnvironmentalHumanities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#EnvironmentalHumanities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Wild Possibilities’: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene: Part 1
This special issue of Comparative American Studies explores the literatures of the American hemisphere and their engagement with Anthropogenic climate change. The complex and contentious histories,...
www.tandfonline.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Delighted that our double special issue of Comparative American Studies is now out. Thanks to all our wonderful contributors, and my fabulous colleague and co-editor @wendymcmahon.bsky.social
#EnvironmentalHumanities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#EnvironmentalHumanities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"There is a crisis in Higher Education in this country, and this crisis writ large in an institution in my own area - the University of East Anglia."
Thanks to Alice Macdonald MP for speaking up for UEA staff and students at today's parliamentary debate on university finances. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
Thanks to Alice Macdonald MP for speaking up for UEA staff and students at today's parliamentary debate on university finances. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
April 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"There is a crisis in Higher Education in this country, and this crisis writ large in an institution in my own area - the University of East Anglia."
Thanks to Alice Macdonald MP for speaking up for UEA staff and students at today's parliamentary debate on university finances. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
Thanks to Alice Macdonald MP for speaking up for UEA staff and students at today's parliamentary debate on university finances. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
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"The loss of knowledge and expertise when staff goes lasts not just years, it can last generations."
Thank you Alice Macdonald MP for calling for jobs and students at UEA to be protected. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
Thank you Alice Macdonald MP for calling for jobs and students at UEA to be protected. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
April 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"The loss of knowledge and expertise when staff goes lasts not just years, it can last generations."
Thank you Alice Macdonald MP for calling for jobs and students at UEA to be protected. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
Thank you Alice Macdonald MP for calling for jobs and students at UEA to be protected. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk
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@uea-ucu.bsky.social is on strike against compulsory redundancies at UEA. It was Day 3 on the picketline today, and we will be out again tomorrow. ✊
#SaveUEA
#SaveUEA
📣UEA UCU members: our strike action remains ON.
🚩Upcoming strike days: Wed 7th and Fri 9th
📍Meet at Gazebo HQ, opposite the main bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
🚩Upcoming strike days: Wed 7th and Fri 9th
📍Meet at Gazebo HQ, opposite the main bus stop from 8am. #SaveUEA
May 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
@uea-ucu.bsky.social is on strike against compulsory redundancies at UEA. It was Day 3 on the picketline today, and we will be out again tomorrow. ✊
#SaveUEA
#SaveUEA
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⁉️Why are students at UEA supporting members of staff on strike?
📽️Watch this video to hear from the amazing students who came to join lecturers and professional services staff on the picket line.
📣Stop the cuts! #SaveUEA
📽️Watch this video to hear from the amazing students who came to join lecturers and professional services staff on the picket line.
📣Stop the cuts! #SaveUEA
May 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
⁉️Why are students at UEA supporting members of staff on strike?
📽️Watch this video to hear from the amazing students who came to join lecturers and professional services staff on the picket line.
📣Stop the cuts! #SaveUEA
📽️Watch this video to hear from the amazing students who came to join lecturers and professional services staff on the picket line.
📣Stop the cuts! #SaveUEA
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Very excitingly, my academic article ‘Radically Hopeful Dystopian Climate Fiction: Exploring Social Dreaming, Temporal Re-Sensitisation, and Katharsis in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne' has been published in Wild Possibilities, a special edition of Comparative American Studies! 1/3
April 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Very excitingly, my academic article ‘Radically Hopeful Dystopian Climate Fiction: Exploring Social Dreaming, Temporal Re-Sensitisation, and Katharsis in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne' has been published in Wild Possibilities, a special edition of Comparative American Studies! 1/3
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New Series 🌍🌳
Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities: an interdisciplinary approach to the key environmental challenges facing our world today
Send inquires to @snorrithepriest.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social
#academicbluesky #environmentalhumanities #bluehumanities #literarystudies
Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities: an interdisciplinary approach to the key environmental challenges facing our world today
Send inquires to @snorrithepriest.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social
#academicbluesky #environmentalhumanities #bluehumanities #literarystudies
March 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
New Series 🌍🌳
Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities: an interdisciplinary approach to the key environmental challenges facing our world today
Send inquires to @snorrithepriest.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social
#academicbluesky #environmentalhumanities #bluehumanities #literarystudies
Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities: an interdisciplinary approach to the key environmental challenges facing our world today
Send inquires to @snorrithepriest.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social
#academicbluesky #environmentalhumanities #bluehumanities #literarystudies
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HYBRID TALK: Forests, Archives, Memory: Decolonizing Environmental Humanities through Turkish Literature
🗣Dr Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
📆Tuesday, 25th March 2025
⏰14:30 - 16:30 (London GMT) 17:30 - 19:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
📍BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 and ONLINE
ℹ️ REGISTER at biaa.ac.uk/events/fores...
🗣Dr Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
📆Tuesday, 25th March 2025
⏰14:30 - 16:30 (London GMT) 17:30 - 19:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
📍BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 and ONLINE
ℹ️ REGISTER at biaa.ac.uk/events/fores...
March 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
HYBRID TALK: Forests, Archives, Memory: Decolonizing Environmental Humanities through Turkish Literature
🗣Dr Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
📆Tuesday, 25th March 2025
⏰14:30 - 16:30 (London GMT) 17:30 - 19:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
📍BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 and ONLINE
ℹ️ REGISTER at biaa.ac.uk/events/fores...
🗣Dr Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
📆Tuesday, 25th March 2025
⏰14:30 - 16:30 (London GMT) 17:30 - 19:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
📍BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 and ONLINE
ℹ️ REGISTER at biaa.ac.uk/events/fores...
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we host lots of wonderful events at the @greenhouseuis.net during a month but this one is going to be extra stellar!
next Thursday, we invite to a conversation about publishing within the #envhum with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Stephanie Foote, moderated by @wrigleyca.bsky.social.
next Thursday, we invite to a conversation about publishing within the #envhum with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Stephanie Foote, moderated by @wrigleyca.bsky.social.
March 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
we host lots of wonderful events at the @greenhouseuis.net during a month but this one is going to be extra stellar!
next Thursday, we invite to a conversation about publishing within the #envhum with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Stephanie Foote, moderated by @wrigleyca.bsky.social.
next Thursday, we invite to a conversation about publishing within the #envhum with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Stephanie Foote, moderated by @wrigleyca.bsky.social.