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Teresa Shewry
Assistant Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
Tel: Please E-mail
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: tshewry@english.ucsb.edu
Office: SH 2522
Availability:
Office Hours: W 1-3pm
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| Teresa Shewry is Assistant Professor of Literature and Environment at UCSB. She has a PhD in Literature from Duke University (2008), and a MA in English and BA in Japanese from Victoria University, New Zealand (2002). Her research interests include environmental studies, Pacific and Asia Pacific cultures, and cultural studies and critical theory, particularly theories of time and of hope. She is working on a book manuscript, Possible Ecologies: Literature, Nature, and Hope in the Pacific. This book is an account of the “possible” seas, waters, climates, and forests that writers and filmmakers imagine and negotiate as they confront damaged ecologies in the Pacific and Pacific Rim after the Second World War. How do writers detect capacities and openness at a moment when the future often appears to be closed, missing, or impossible in ecology? What is the relationship of hope to the losses, failures, and unrealized dreams that they see when they turn to the past? How can critics situate themselves in relation to the “unrealistic” hopes for ecology that seem to fly precariously in the face of “inevitability”? |
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Areas of Interest |
- Environmental Studies. http://lit-environ.english.ucsb.edu/index.html
- Postcolonial and global literary studies
- Pacific and Asia Pacific cultures
- Critical theory and cultural studies
- Hope, possibility, utopia
- Cultural politics of water
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Books and Recent Articles |
- "Aquatic Pasts.” Invited Review of The People and the Sea: Environment, Identity and History in Oceania, Paul D‘Arcy, Honolulu, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. Environment and Nature in New Zealand 3.1 (Feb 2008): 26-28.
- “Literature and the Environment: Fictions of Nature, Culture, and Landscapes.” Environment and Nature in New Zealand. Special Issue on Environmental Literature. Hosted online by the Australian National University, Canberra. 2.4 (May 2007), 3-7.
- With Julian Kuzma. Invited Guest editors. Environment and Nature in New Zealand. Special Issue on Environmental Literature. Hosted online by the Australian National University, Canberra. 2.4 (May 2007).
- Review of First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures, Jeffrey Sissons, London, Reaktion Books, 2005. Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 4.2 (Dec 2006), 88-91.
- Review of Nature and Nation: Forests and Development in Peninsular Malaysia, Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells, Singapore, NIAS Press, 2005. Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 4.2 (Dec 2006), 84-87.
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Current Projects |
- Possible Ecologies: Literature, Nature, and Hope in the Pacific (book manuscript)
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Courses
| Quarter |
Course |
Title |
| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 165LP |
Topics in Literature
: Literature of the Pacific |
| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Indigenous Literature |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 122WE |
Cultural Representations
: Water Imaginations |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 234 |
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
: Time, Space, and Ecology |
| Spring 2009 |
ENGL 122IL |
Cultural Representations
: Literature and Globalization |
| Spring 2009 |
ENGL 165LP |
Topics in Literature
: Literature of the Pacific |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Indigenous Literature |
| Fall 2008 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Indigenous Literatures and Environmental Politics |
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