General Background
• Alaimo, Stacy. “Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea.” Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
• Alaimo, Stacy. “States of Suspension: Trans-corporeality at Sea.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 19.3 (2012).
• Blum, Hester. “The Prospect of Oceanic Studies.” PMLA 125.3 (2010): 670-677.
• Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. “The Sea Above.” Elemental Ecocriticism. Eds. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
• Cohen, Margaret. “Chronotopes of the Sea.” The Novel: Volume 2 Forms and Themes. Ed. Franco Moretti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 646-666.
• DeLoughrey, Elizabeth. “Oceanic Futures: Interspecies Worlding.” Allegories of the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
• DeLoughrey, Elizabeth. “Submarine Futures of the Anthropocene.” Comparative Literature 69.1 (2017): 32-44.
• Duckert, Lowell. “Exit, Wet.” For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
• Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
• Giblett, Rod. Cities and Wetlands: Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
• Giblett, Rod. Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
• Gillis, John. “The Blue Humanities.” Humanities 34.3 (2013).
• Jue, Melody. “Thinking through Seawater.” Wild Blue Media. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
• Mentz, Steve. “Seep.” Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. Eds. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
• Neimanis, Astrida. “Imagining Water in the Anthropocene.” Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
• Roorda, Eric Paul. The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
• Scarpino, Philip. “Anthropocene World / Anthropocene Waters: A Historical Examination of Ideas and Agency,” in Rivers of the Anthropocene, eds. J. Kelly et al. University of California Press, 2017. 101-115.
Place-Based
• Blum, Hester. “Polar EcoMedia.” The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
• Black, Brian. “Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus: Re-Creating the Industrial Process through the Landscape of Pennsylvania’s Oil Boom.” Environmental History 3:2 (1998): 210-29.
• Chiarappa, Michael. “Fed by the Adjoining Waters: The Delaware Estuary’s Marine Resources and the Shaping of Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Orbit.” Nature’s Entrepot. Ed. Brian Black and Michael Chiarappa. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
• Giblett, Rod. “Canadian Wetlands Culture: Past and Present.” Canadian Wetlands: Places and People. Chicago: Intellect, 2014.
• Jones, Christopher. “Taming the Susquehanna.” Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 161-194.
• Macfarlane, Daniel and Heasley, Lynne. Eds. Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016.
• Magoc, Chris. “In Search of a Useable–and Hopeful–Environmental Narrative in the Mid-Atlantic.” Pennsylvania History 82.3 (2015): 314-328.
• Marsh, Ben. “Meltwater Channel Scars and the Extent of Mid-Pleistocene Glaciation in Central Pennsylvania.” Geomorphology 295 (2017): 354-363.
• Mentz, Steve. Oceanic New York. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2015.
• Pastore, Chris. “From Sweetwater to Seawater.” Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.
• Pawling, Micah. “Walastakwey (Maliseet) Homeland: Waterscapes and Continuity within the Lower St. John River Valley, 1784-1900.” Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region 46.2 (2017): 5-34.
• Shannon, Timothy J. “Avenue of Empire: The Hudson Valley in an Atlantic Context,” in Jacobs and Roper, eds. Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013. 67-84.
• Stuhl, Andrew. “Is the Arctic out of Time?” Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
• Wohl, Ellen. A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World’s Great Rivers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Identity & Erasure
• Braithwaite, Kamau. History of the Voice. New York: New Beacon Books, 1984.
• Chow, Jeremy and Brandi Bushman. “Hydro-eroticism.” English Language Notes 57.1 (2019): 96-115.
• Cusak, Tricia. “The Chosen People: The Hudson River School and the construction of American Identity.” Riverscapes and National Identities. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010. 19-56.
• Gilroy, Paul. “The Black Atlantic as Counterculture to Modernity.” The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1995.
• Glissant, Edóuard. “The Black Beach.” Poetics of Relation. Trans. Betsy Wing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
• Gómez-Barris, Macarena. “Submerged Perspectives.” The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
• Hau’ofa, Epeli. “Our Sea of Islands.” Tidaletics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science. Ed. Stefanie Hessler. Boston: MIT Press, 2018.
• Ingersoll, Karin Amimoto. “Seascape Epistemology: Ke Kino and Movement.” Waves of Knowing. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
• King, Tiffany Lethabo. “The Black Shoals.” Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
• Sammler, Katherine. “Kauri and the Whale: Oceanic Matter and Meaning in New Zealand.” Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea. Eds. Irus Braverman and Elizabeth Johnson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
• Walker, Isaiah Helekunihi. “Kai Ea: Rising Waves of National and Ethnic Hawaiian Identities.” The Critical Surf Studies Reader. Eds. Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Imagining & Theorizing: The Humanities in Conversation
• Bachelard, Gaston. “Water’s Voice.” Water and Dreams. Trans. Joanna Stroud. Dallas: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1999.
• Barad, Karen. “Invertebrate Visions: Diffractions of the Brittlestar.” The Multispecies Salon. Ed. Eben Kirksey. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
• Braverman, Irus and Elizabeth Johnson. “Blue Legalities: Governing More-Than-Human Oceans.” Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea. Eds. Irus Braverman and Elizabeth Johnson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
• Elias, Ann. “Under the Sea.” Coral Empires: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
• Garrard, Greg, Axel Goodbody, George B. Handley, & Stephanie Posthumus. “Science and Technology Studies, Ecocriticism and Climate Change.” Climate Change Skepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
• Hayward, Eva. “Sensational Jellyfish: Aquarium Affects and the Matter of Immersion.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 23.3 (2012).
• Helmreich, Stefan. “Blue-Green Capitalism.” Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
• Helmreich, Stefan. “Nature/Culture/Seawater.” American Anthropologist 131.1 (2011).
• Huggan, Graham, “Kind of Blue; or, The Infinite Melancholy of the Whale.” Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
• Neimanis, Astrida, Cecilia Asberg, & Johan Hedren. “Four Problems, Four Directions for Environmental Humanities: Towards Critical Posthumanities for the Anthropocene.” Ethics & the Environment 20.1 (2015): 67-97.
• Parsons, William. The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Povinelli, Elizabeth. “The Kinship of Tides.” Tidaletics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science. Ed. Stefanie Hessler. Boston: MIT Press, 2018.
• Probyn, Elspeth. “Swimming with Tuna.” Eating the Ocean. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
• Shewry, Teresa. “In a Strange Ocean: Imagining Futures with Others.” Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literatures. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
• Starosielski, Nicole. “Against Flow.” The Undersea Network. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
• Steinberg, Philip. “Of Other Seas: Metaphors and Materialities in Maritime Regions.” Atlantic Studies 10.2 (2013).