Sarah Jaquette Ray , Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of English, Geography BA Program Coordinator 
Arts and Sciences - Humanities

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Ray

Education:

  • Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, Studies and Policy, University of Oregon, 2009
  • MA in American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
  • BA Religious Studies and Women's Studies, Swarthmore College, 1998

Publications:

  • Book manuscript under contract with University of Arizona Press, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture, forthcoming 2013.
  • "How Many Mothers Does It Take To Change All the Light Bulbs? The Myth of Green Motherhood", Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, August 2011.
  • "Risking Bodies in the Wild: The 'Corporeal Unconscious' of American Adventure Culture," Journal for Sport and Social Issues, August 2009; 33; 257-284.
  • "Endangering the Desert: Immigration, the Environment, and Security in the Arizona Borderland--Mexico Borderland," ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment, Autumn 2010.
  • Book Review:  Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global, by Ursula K. Heise
  • "Reimagining Landscape", book review of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization, by Jill H. Casid.
  • Book Review, Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural, by Noel Sturgeon.
  • Book Review: Bodily Natures: Science, the Environment, and the Material Self, by Stacy Alaimo.
  • "Teaching Jamaica Kincaid's 'In History' as Environmental Justice Literature," in Lauret Savoy and Alison Deming's Online Teaching Resource for The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World.   Forthcoming

Affiliations:

  • Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS)
  • Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
  • Association of American Geographers (AAG)

Courses Taught:

University of Alaska Southeast:

  • Introduction to Geography
  • Politics of the Body
  • Dirty Natures: Race, Gender, and Justice 
  • Ecocriticism
  • Eco-Collapse: Fear, Risk, and Environmental Disaster
  • Methods of Written Communication
  • Introduction to College Writing
  • Humans and the Environment, and Environmental Film

University of Oregon:

  • Introduction to Environmental Literature
  • Environment, Identity and Popular Culture
  • Nature and Justice in American History
  • Beginning College Composition
  • Advanced College Composition
  • College Composition
 
 

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