Faculty Profile

Dr. Stacy Alaimo

Professor of English

Years of Service at UT Arlington

  • Professor of English, (2010-Present)
  • Associate Professor of English, (2000-2010)
  • Assistant Professor of English , (1994-1999)

Education

  • PhD, University of Illinois, Department of English, May 1994
  • Certificate from the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, 1993
  • MA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of English, 1986
  • BA, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota. Magna Cum Laude, 1985

Current Research

Dr. Alaimo’s research interests include 19th and 20th century multi-cultural American literatures; critical theory; feminist theory; cultural studies, green cultural studies; science studies; environmentalism and feminism; environmental health, environmental justice, environmental ethics; emerging theories of materiality in environmental feminism, corporeal feminism, and science studies; science, literature and art of sea creatures.

She has published articles on American literature, film, popular culture, architecture, performance art, feminism and environment, environmental theory, green pedagogy, and activism.

Her first book, Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell, 2000), explores the work of North American women writers, theorists, and activists from the early 19th century to the late 20th century, arguing that "nature" has been a crucial site for a wide range of feminist cultural interventions.

Material Feminisms, edited with Susan J. Hekman, (Indiana UP, 2008), charts emerging models of materiality in feminist theory, bringing together environmental feminism, corporeal feminism, feminist science studies, and disability studies.

Her most recent book, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment and the Material Self (Indiana UP, 2010), argues that focusing on "trans-corporeality"--the movement across human bodies and nonhuman nature--profoundly alters our sense of human subjectivity, environmental ethics, and the individual's relation to scientific knowledge. The book engages with feminist theory, science studies, environmental philosophy, and a range of literary, popular, and scientific texts, as well as photography and activist web sites. It includes several chapters focusing on environmental health and environmental justice.

Her next book, Sea Creatures and the Limits of Animal Studies: Science, Aesthetics, Ethics, will explore the limits of animal studies by examining the science, literature, and art of sea creatures.

More information on Dr. Alaimo's research and publications can be found on her personal website

Teaching Awards