Emma D’Amico
- M.A. (Brock University), B.A. (Brock University)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Environmental humanities; Climate crisis; Ecocriticism; Affect theory; Atmospheric humanities; Decolonial studies; Genre fiction; Speculative fiction; Climate fiction; Climate crisis and narrative.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
Emma鈥檚 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.
CONFERENCES:
– D鈥橝mico, Emma. 鈥淭he Dual Nature of Atmosphere: Linking Environmental and Emotional Landscapes in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.鈥 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Conference Presentation. July 8-11, 2025.
– D’Amico, Emma. 鈥淩eanimating Tradition: Moon of the Crusted Snow and Indigenous Post-Apocalypse.鈥 Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Conference Presentation. May 15-18, 2024.
– D’Amico, Emma. 鈥淩elearning Communities in Affective Documentary.鈥 杏吧原创 University: Department of English Grad Conference. Conference Presentation. May 5-6, 2023.
– D’Amico, Emma. 鈥淐hernobyl Prayer: Coping with Human and Non Human Trauma and The Power of Testimony鈥. Non-Western Approaches in the Environmental Humanities Conference, The University of Warsaw. Conference Presentation. July 11-13, 2022.
– D’Amico, Emma. 鈥淢aking Kin: Collective Healing in The Overstory鈥. Brock University: English Graduate Student Colloquium, Brock University. Conference Presentation. April 26, 2022.
– D’Amico, Emma. 鈥淭he Right to Mourn and Be Mourned: Judith Butler鈥檚 Intersection in The Overstory鈥. Brock University: Mapping New Knowledges Conference. Conference Presentation. April 14, 2022.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
– Research Assistant. Barbara Leckie. 杏吧原创 University. 2025.
– Research Assistant. Nadia Bozak. 杏吧原创 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.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
– 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
SERVICE:
– Co-Coordinator/Graduate Student Representative / 杏吧原创 Climate Commons
– Humanities Research Institute Graduate Student Member / Brock University
AWARDS:
– Departmental Scholarship / 杏吧原创 University / 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
– Vanneste-Nolf Scholarship / 杏吧原创 University / 2023
– Departmental Scholarship / 杏吧原创 University / 2022, 2023
– Gordon J. Wood Memorial OSOTF / 杏吧原创 University / 2022
– Graduate Fellowship / Brock University / 2021
– Research Fellowship / Brock University / 2021
CERTIFICATES:
Preparing to Teach Certificate. 杏吧原创 University. 2025.