Emma D'Amico
| Degrees: | M.A. (Brock University), B.A. (Brock University) |
| Email: | emmadamico@cmail.carleton.ca |
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. “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. April26, 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.
AWARDS:
– Departmental Scholarship / Carleton University / 2022, 2023
– Gordon J. Wood Memorial OSOTF / Carleton University / 2022
– Graduate Fellowship / Brock University / 2021
– Research Fellowship / Brock University / 2021
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.
SERVICE:
– Co-Coordinator/Graduate Student Representative / Carleton Climate Commons
– Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Member / Brock University