Interviews & Features
2024
"Should You Have Kids?," The Disagreement Podcast (Oct)
"Ecosickness," Interview with The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast (Apr)
2023
"Thinking about Having Baby? Even during Climate Crisis?" The Harvard Gazette (Nov)
"Art, Science, and the Wide-World of Infowhelm," Life & Letters Magazine (Oct)
2022
Interview for Into the COLA-verse Podcast (Nov)
"The Covid-19 'Infowhelm,'" Translational Humanities for Public Health (Sept)
“Deluged by Data in the Climate Crisis,” Chrysalis Podcast (June)
"What Passes for Hope: 19 Writers on Finding Meaning in the Face of the Climate Crisis," LitHub (April)
2021
Books in Conversation with Richard Jean So, ASAP/J (March)
2020
“The Infowhelm,” Academic Minute Podcast (Sep)
“Making Meaning in an Age of Data: A Conversation with Heather Houser,” with Min Hyoung Song, Edge Effects Podcast (July)
Q&A, Tanner Humanities Center (July)
Infowhelm on The Page 99 Test (July)
“Artists Explore New Ways of Knowing in a Time of Information Overload,” Nature (June)
Bridging the Social Distance Podcast, CFRU Radio (May)
Talks & Panels
2024
“End of Story,” Rutgers-Reed Philological Seminar, virtual (Nov 15)
“Banned Books & Novel Ideas,” Flair Symposium on Literature and Change, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX (Nov, recording)
“Is Abundance A Luxury?,” ASAP Conference, New York, NY (Oct)
"The Amateur Body in Dance and Science," C-DaRE Invites: The Body and Science Series, Coventry University, UK (Apr)
2023
"Rethinking Reproduction in Climate Crisis,” Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Harvard University (Nov, recording)
"When Climate Knowledge Becomes Atmospheric," Failure of Knowledge/Knowledges of Failure Symposium, Mannheim, Germany (May)
"The Climate Infowhelm,” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara (Feb, recording)
“Wondering & Freedom in Childfree Discourse,” Humanities Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Feb, recording)
2022
Panel on "Too Soon? Critique at the Doubled Edges of the Pandemic Present," ASAP/13 Conference, UCLA (Sep)
"Reproduction Amid Climate Crisis," Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows Symposium, UT Austin (May)
2021
Roundtable on "Posthuman Scale and the Care to Come," ASAP/12 Conference (Oct)
Book talk on Infowhelm. The Greenhouse, University of Stavanger, Norway (Oct)
“Entanglement & Environmental Humanities.” Keynote for "Climate | Changes | Global Perspectives." Graduate School of the Humanities, University of Würzburg, Germany (Aug )
“Transportation and Land Use: Development in Growth Corridors.“ American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment, Austin (May)
"Cultures and Media of Environmental Health," with Alexis Shotwell. Planet Now!, Center for Environmental Studies, Rice University (Apr, recording).
Book talk & reading group on Infowhelm, Tanner Humanities Center, Digital Matters, & Environmental Humanities, University of Utah (Apr)
"Expecting the Unprecedented: Speculative Fiction and the Climate Events of the Future," with Claire Colebrook & Stephanie LeMenager. Center for American Literary Studies, Penn State University (Jan, recording)
2020
Book talk & workshop on Infowhelm, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies & Environmental Humanities Research Group, UCLA (Dec)
Moderator for “Writing for Resistance”; Literature, the Arts, and the Environment Colloquium; Yale University (Nov)
Book Talk on Infowhelm, Colloquium in Geography & Environment, UT Austin (Oct)
”Environmental Illness Today” Symposium, Uppsala University, Sweden (Sept)
Eminent Scholar Keynote, Humanities Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville (Postponed due to Covid-19)
“Perspectives on Inequality,” Plan II Meeting of the Minds Colloquium, Dallas (Jan)
2019
“Meaning-Making and Community Engagement” Panel with Dr. Lourdes Rodríguez, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Oct)
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Panel, Austin Film Society (Sept)
“Looking Forward: Research” Panel, UT Austin Sustainability Symposium (Sept)
“Texas as a Hub for the 'Grand Challenges' of Climate Research,” ASLE Conference, UC Davis (in absentia June)
“A New Natural History through Data Visualization,” Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University (Apr)
“A Slant on the Aerial through Eco-Media,” Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah (Jan)
2018
“Aerial Environmentalisms,” Ghent University, Belgium (Dec)
“Extinction and Designer Ecosystems in Digital Media,” Digital Matters , University of Utah (Nov)
“Becoming Undisciplined on Planet Texas,” ASAP Conference, New Orleans (Oct)
“Environmental Aftermaths from the Air,” Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh (Sept)
“Environmental Institutions: Representing Nature in the Anthropocene,” Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh (Sept)
UT Austin Sustainability Showdown, KLRU Studios (Apr)
“An Oblique on the Aerial through Environmental Media,” University of Michigan (Feb)
“Value and Values” Panel, UT Austin Plan II Meeting of the Minds Colloquium, Dallas (Jan)