The second episode of the Environmental Humanities Podcast hosts Ashley Dawson. Ashley is an author, activist, and Professor of English at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, CUNY. He currently works in the fields of environmental humanities and postcolonial ecocriticism. Ashley is the author of three recent books relating to these fields: People’s Power (O/R, 2020), Extreme Cities (Verso, 2017), and Extinction (O/R, 2016). We talk about Ashley's recent book, People's Power,...

Environmental Humanities is a podcast sponsored by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University. Our first guest is Jerry Zee, who is an assistant professor at the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Princeton University Department of Anthropology. Our co-host in this episode is Corey Byrnes, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Program in Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. Zeynep Oguz is a...