Teaching
At John Cabot University my courses include Feminist Media Studies and Global Media. I have taught a variety of courses in environmental humanities and gender studies.
Ideas and Politics of Nature (University of Lausanne, 2020-2023)
This course interrogates established understandings of the socio-ecological worlds we inhabit. It examines nature not as an empty stage upon which events happen but as a deeply contested field. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the course is divided into three parts. The first, considers the affirmation of Western ideas and practices of nature as external environment, source of norms, and resource to appropriate. The second looks at how ideas of nature are intertwined with understandings of race, gender and sexuality. The third part asks how hegemonic understandings of nature inform current debates about the environmental crisis - including the Anthropocene master narrative - and what practices and modes of knowledge production might provide alternatives. Overall this course explores how prevalent concepts of nature have come into being and how they might be thought otherwise.
