Скачать или смотреть 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium "Energy Studies: Keynote Event: "Everyday Ecofascism"

Recorded on October 10, 2025 on the Elmira College Campus as part of the Twelfth Quarry Farm Symposium "Energy Studies."

The keynote event features two scholars from the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative who are both researching ecofascism and challenging its dominant myths via public humanities work. Central to our discussion will by the critical category of “everyday ecofascism” which encompasses both the crisis narratives that incite political violence and moreover the often mundane and/or middlebrow representations of geopolitics, energy production, population growth, resource allocation, and climate science which serve, intentionally or unintentionally, to validate eschatology and extremism.

April Anson is Assistant Professor of English and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut where she serves on the executive committees for American Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies. She is the 2025-26 Justice, Equity and Repair Fellow at the University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute, completing her manuscript UNFENCEABLE: ECOFASCISM, LITERARY GENRE, AND NATIVE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. UNFENCEABLE uses literary analysis to trace the historical and ongoing relationship between climate change, white supremacy, and American environmental thought as well as the Indigenous American environmental justice traditions that eclipse those relations. Prior to joining UConn, Dr. Anson was Assistant Professor of Public Humanities at San Diego State University and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Anson’s public-facing work includes cofounding the Anti-Creep Climate Collective, which coauthored AGAINST THE ECOFASCIST CREEP. Her research has appeared in BOUNDARY 2, RESILIENCE, AMERICAN QUARTERLY, ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE and more.

Alexander Menrisky is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of the forthcoming ROUTLEDGE INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE, EVERYDAY ECOFASCISM: CRISIS AND CONSUMPTION IN AMERICAN LITERATURE(University of Minnesota Press, 2025), WILD ABANDON: AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE IDENTITY POLITICS OF ECOLOGY (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and, as part of the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative, the web zine and teaching resource AGAINST THE ECOFASCIST CREEP. His work also appears in CRITICISM, INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT, GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES, RESILIENCE, EDGE EFFECTS magazine, and elsewhere. He is currently the Vice President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), and in the past created and curated the organization’s Teaching Resources Database.