Juneau, AK, USA

Assistant Professor of English, University of Alaska Southeast
Employer Type: University

Sarah Jaquette Ray teaches composition, literature and environment, geography, cultural studies, and environmental studies.  Her dissertation, which drew on theories and methods from cultural geography, environmental justice ecocriticism, and environmental history, was titled "The Ecological Other: Indians, Invalids, and Immigrants in U.S. Environmental Thought and Literature."  She continues to write and publish on environmental justice and the cultural politics of nature.  Her post at UAS, a small public liberal arts institution with a very diverse student body, affords unique opportunities to think about race, place, historiography, identity politics, and environmental justice.

Courses I've taken that prepared me for my current job:
Betsy Wheeler's "Urban and Social Ecologies in Contemporary American Literature," Lise Nelson's "Space, Place, and Power," "Gender and Geopolitics," and "Political Geography," Susan Hardwick's "North American Cultural Landscapes," Neil Smith's "American Empire," Mark Spence's "Environment and the West."

Courses I wish I had taken:
Too many to mention

• Association for American University Women Doctoral Fellow