Professional Documents
Culture Documents
April Anson: Peer-Reviewed Articles
April Anson: Peer-Reviewed Articles
Works in Progress
Unfenceable: Race, Nature, Genre, Graft, for University of Minnesota Press.
“Climatics: Atmospheres, Autoimmunities, and Theories of Change Beyond the Anthropocene,” for
American Studies, 32 pgs.
“#TinyHouseSoWhite,” for The Conversation, 15 pgs.
Teaching Experience
Present | San Diego State University, San Diego, California
Courses: HUM409: The Future
2020 | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Courses: ENGL268 Apocalypse & the Anthropocene
2019 | Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Courses: ENG 363 Culture, Imperialism, and Globalization (online)
2012-2019 | University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Courses: ENG 222 Introduction to the English Major; ENG 104 Introduction to Fiction:
Environmental Justice; WRI 123 Research in The Anthropocene; WRI 123 Research in
Bodies of Protest; WRI 122 The Literature of Social Protest; WRI 122 What Bodies Count
WRI 121 Sustainability; WRI 121 Poverty and Privilege
2009-2012 | Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Courses: Graduate Writing Workshop Instructor; ENG 323 Environmental Literature;
Rhetorical Grammar; European Art as Politics; Knowledge, Rationality and
Understanding; Middle East Studies
2010-2011 | Trier Center for American Studies, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany
2002-2008 |Secondary English Teacher, Forest Grove, Oregon
Service
2020-present | Diversity and Inclusion Planning committee, San Diego State University
Reviewer: Contemporary Literature, University of Wisconsin Press
Environmental History Now, contributing author and Wiki edit-a-thon contributor
2020-2022 | Chair, Diversity, Activism, and Community Engagement Committee, Association for
Literature and Environment
2019-2022 | Executive Council, Western Literature Association
Executive Council, Association for Literature and Environment
Standing Committee on Activism, Association for Literature and Environment
2019- present | Reviewer: Environment and Sustainability, Routledge;
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, University of California Press;
Ethical Perspectives, Centre for Ethics of the KU Leuven and Peeters Publishers;
Journal of Environmental Media, Intellect.
2019 | Coordinator, ASLE Graduate Writing Workshop with Environmental Humanities, Resilience, Green
Letters, Environmental Cultures, postmedieval, Early Modern Culture
Organizer, “Practicing Peace for Climate Justice: Haudenosaunee Knowledge in Global
Context,” Cornell University