Emma D'Amico

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Environmental humanities; Climate crisis; Affect theory; Decolonial studies; Genre fiction; Futurisms criticism; Imagined narratives; Environmental literature; Ecocriticism; Climate fiction; Climate crisis and narrative.

CURRENT RESEARCH:
Emma’s research focuses on climate narratives, climate emotions, and climate-changed futures. She is dedicated to social change and works to participate in discussions around pedagogies that facilitate engagement with the climate crisis and affective responses to it. Her approach, informed by decolonial, climate affect, and climate justice theories, works to produce new insights into how to address a climate crisis changed future.

CONFERENCES:
– D’Amico, Emma. “Reanimating Tradition: Moon of the Crusted Snow and Indigenous Post-Apocalypse.” Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Conference Presentation. May 15-18, 2024.
– D’Amico, Emma. “Relearning Communities in Affective Documentary.” Carleton University: Department of English Grad Conference. Conference Presentation. May 5-6, 2023.
– D’Amico, Emma. “Chernobyl Prayer: Coping with Human and Non Human Trauma and The Power of Testimony”. Non-Western Approaches in the Environmental Humanities Conference, The University of Warsaw. Conference Presentation. July 11-13, 2022.
– D’Amico, Emma. “Making Kin: Collective Healing in The Overstory”. Brock University: English Graduate Student Colloquium, Brock University. Conference Presentation. April 26, 2022.
– D’Amico, Emma. “The Right to Mourn and Be Mourned: Judith Butler’s Intersection in The Overstory”. Brock University: Mapping New Knowledges Conference. Conference Presentation. April 14, 2022.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
– Research Assistant. Susan Speary. Brock University. 2021-2022.
– Research Assistant. James Allard. Brock University. 2021.
– Research Assistant. Martin Danahay, Virtual Reality Classroom Experience. Brock University. 2020-2021.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
– Teaching Assistant. ENGL 2107: Science Fiction. Fall 2024.
– Teaching Assistant. ENGL 2500: Classical Mythology. Winter 2024.
– Teaching Assistant. ENGL 1400: Literature, Art, and Culture. Fall 2023.
– Teaching Assistant. ENGL 2802: Indigenous and Canadian Literature. Fall 2022 & Winter 2023

SERVICE:
– Co-Coordinator/Graduate Student Representative / Carleton Climate Commons
– Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Member / Brock University

AWARDS:
– Departmental Scholarship / Carleton University / 2022, 2023, 2024
– Vanneste-Nolf Scholarship / Carleton University / 2023
– Departmental Scholarship / Carleton University / 2022, 2023
– Gordon J. Wood Memorial OSOTF / Carleton University / 2022
– Graduate Fellowship / Brock University / 2021
– Research Fellowship / Brock University / 2021