Blog Contributor: Abby Goode

Dr. Abby Goode is Associate Professor with tenure at Plymouth State University in New Hamsphire, where she teaches in the English and Sustainability Studies programs. She is the author of Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). Abby's research uncovers how early, environmental thought intersected with racism, colonialism, and eugenics in the U.S. Her research appears in venues such as Early American Literature, ESQ, Studies in American Fiction, Hybrid Pedagogy, and American Studies in Scandinavia. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the American Antiquarian Society, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and the First Book Institute at the Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State. She teaches courses in American literature and culture, writing and sustainability, environmental justice, critical theory, wilderness literature, food studies, and the environmental humanities.

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