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RESEARCH INTERESTS:<\/strong>
Environmental humanities; Climate crisis; Ecocriticism; Affect theory; Atmospheric humanities; Decolonial studies; Genre fiction; Speculative fiction; Climate fiction; Climate crisis and narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CURRENT RESEARCH:<\/strong>
Emma\u2019s research focuses on climate narratives, collective 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, affect, the humanities, and climate justice theories, works to produce new insights into how to address a climate crisis changed future.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONFERENCES:<\/strong>
– <\/span>D\u2019Amico, Emma. \u201cThe Dual Nature of Atmosphere: Linking Environmental and Emotional Landscapes in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.\u201d Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Conference Presentation. July 8-11, 2025.
– D’Amico, Emma. \u201cReanimating Tradition: Moon of the Crusted Snow <\/em>and Indigenous Post-Apocalypse.\u201d Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Conference Presentation. May 15-18, 2024.
– D’Amico, Emma. \u201cRelearning Communities in Affective Documentary.\u201d Carleton University: Department of English Grad Conference. Conference Presentation. May 5-6, 2023.
– D’Amico, Emma. \u201cChernobyl Prayer: Coping with Human and Non Human Trauma and The Power of Testimony\u201d. Non-Western Approaches in the Environmental Humanities Conference, The University of Warsaw. Conference Presentation. July 11-13, 2022.
– D’Amico, Emma. \u201cMaking Kin: Collective Healing in The Overstory\u201d. Brock University: English Graduate Student Colloquium, Brock University. Conference Presentation. April 26, 2022.
– D’Amico, Emma. \u201cThe Right to Mourn and Be Mourned: Judith Butler\u2019s Intersection in The Overstory\u201d. Brock University: Mapping New Knowledges Conference. Conference Presentation. April 14, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:<\/strong>
– <\/span>Research Assistant. Barbara Leckie. Carleton University. 2025.
– Research Assistant. Nadia Bozak. Carleton University. 2025.
– 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.

<\/span>TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
<\/strong>– Teaching Assistant. ENGL 1500: Intro to Creative Writing. Winter 2025.
– 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SERVICE:<\/strong>
– Co-Coordinator\/Graduate Student Representative \/ Carleton Climate Commons
– Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Member \/ Brock University<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWARDS:<\/strong>
– Departmental Scholarship \/ Carleton University \/ 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
– 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<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CERTIFICATES:<\/strong>
Preparing to Teach Certificate. Carleton University. 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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