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The American Cultures Colloquium is thrilled to welcome Professor Teresa Goddu on May 8th at 5:15pm for her talk, “Jesmyn Ward’s Eco-Gothic." 

Professor Teresa Goddu is a Professor of English at Vanderbilt University whose research focuses on the environmental humanities, specifically contemporary climate fiction. She is Director of the Program in American Studies. As director, she designed “The Sustainability Project,” a three-year interdisciplinary initiative to embolden Vanderbilt’s environmental efforts, which resulted in a minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. She is the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation (Columbia University Press, 1997) and most recently, Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). She is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Senior Specialist Fulbright award.