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20th and 21st-Century Latin American Literature and Film, with a focus on Mexico and Central America
Environmental Humanities: Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, and Animal Studies
Critical Theories of Race, Gender, and Disability
Carolyn Fornoff's research engages Mexican and Central American culture through the lens of ecocriticism. It explores how artists and writers portray the intersection between environmental and social justice through representational modes that range from speculative fiction to the documentary.
Fornoff's in-process monograph, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change, considers contemporary representations of anthropogenic environmental change and critiques of the extractivist paradigm. It argues that the unpredictability of environmental rupture (and its corollaries, like drought and extinction) have put the future into doubt, prompting writers and artists in Mexico to reimagine ways of living on a planet governed by different climatic rules.
As part of broader research in the environmental humanities, Fornoff has co-edited two collections:
Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), co-edited with Bethany Wiggin and Patricia Kim, brings together interdisciplinary research on the question of time in the Anthropocene.
Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2021), co-edited with Gisela Heffes, theorizes the rich cinematic production coming out of Latin America that attends to environmental questions.
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
M.A. University of Pennsylvania
B.A. Rice University
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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter