Bio:
Emery Jenson is a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies. Their dissertation, Governing Thunder: Climate and Coloniality in the Atlantic World, traces climate through histories of domination and resistance in the Americas and Caribbean. Assembling an archive from maroon diaries to meteorological data, this project shows how the political turbulence of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was aerated by different ways of observing, interpreting, and living in Atlantic world climates.
Emery’s writing has appeared in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, James Joyce Quarterly, Alienocene: Journal of the First Outernational, Edge Effects and elsewhere.
Interests:
18th- and 19th-Century Atlantic world, American and Caribbean literatures, (post)colonial theory, political theory, ecocriticism, history of science
Degree and Institution
B.A., Duke University
M.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison