Blue Humanities for Earth Day: Book Talks by Stacy Alaimo and Melody Jue

Featuring: Stacy Alaimo (author of The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep Sea Life, University of Minnesota Press, 2025) and Melody Jue (author of Coralations University of Minnesota Press, 2025).

Stacy Alaimo is the Moore Professor in English and Core Faculty in Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of four books, Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space; Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self; Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times; and The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep Sea Life. She has edited two books, Material Feminisms and Matter, edited a special volume of Configurations on Science Studies and the Blue Humanities, and she co-edits the Elements series at Duke University Press.

Melody Jue is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke, 2020), which won the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science book award, and Coralations (Minnesota, 2025). Her co-edited collections include Saturation: An Elemental Politics (Duke, 2021) with Rafico Ruiz, and Informatics of Domination (Duke, 2025) with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee. Professor Jue has published articles in journals including Grey Room, Configurations, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Resilience, and Media+Environment. She regularly collaborates with artists and scientists, bringing experience as a scuba diver to many of her writings.

Schedule of Events: 

• 2:45PM - 4:00PM - Melody Jue
• 4:00PM - 4:15PM - Snack Break
• 4:15PM - 5:30PM - Stacy Alaimo

This event is organized by the 5C Browning the Blue Humanities Professional Development Network. 

Additional support comes from the Teaching, Learning, and Campus Life Committee, the Pomona English Department, the Pomona Environmental Analysis Program, the Intercollegiate Media Studies program, and the Robert Redford Conservancy. 

Contact: lishan@pitzer.edu for more information.