Alison Glassie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5703772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Glassie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Glassie |
| SIGNATURE | GLASSIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Merck Serono (Italy) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8349-8382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Loomings
This article examines the affordances of Indigenous experimental lyric in a melting Arctic. In conversation with geographer Jen Rose Smith’s turn to foreground “experiential and imaginary geographies of Arctic space,” the author explores how the poetry of the North American Arctic represents experiences ranging from colonial extraction to climate disruption. The analysis centers on Joan Naviyuk Kane’s 2019 “Citation in the Wake of Melville” and c…
A Man for Strength and a Woman for Good Looks”
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Gloucester's fishing schooners bridged masculinized and feminized labor and were central to negotiations about industry risk. Reading these vessels alongside literature, newspapers, and art, I argue that their complex cultural position is legible in their design and in constructions of their gender
Catch and Release
In Monique Roffey's latest novel, the Costa Award-winning The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story, a thousand-year old Taino mermaid named Aycayia resurfaces to indict the logics of possession and extraction that have shaped the Caribbean since colonial contact. Having swum afoul of a sportfishing derby off the rural island of Black Conch in 1976, Aycayia is hooked-quite literally-by "white men from Florida [who] came to fish for marlin and inst…
Ruth Ozeki's Floating World
This essay explores the intertwined oceanographic and spiritual imaginations structuring Ruth Ozeki's novel A Tale for the Time Being, which she rewrote in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. A Tale for the Time Being's new, metafictional frame story dramatizes a citizen-science response to marine debris and theorizes marine science as a mode of witnessing and a mode of reading. Furthermore, by bringing her depictions of marine sc…
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Ruth Ozeki's Floating World
This essay explores the intertwined oceanographic and spiritual imaginations structuring Ruth Ozeki's novel A Tale for the Time Being, which she rewrote in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. A Tale for the Time Being's new, metafictional frame story dramatizes a citizen-science response to marine debris and theorizes marine science as a mode of witnessing and a mode of reading. Furthermore, by bringing her depictions of marine sc…
Catch and Release
In Monique Roffey's latest novel, the Costa Award-winning The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story, a thousand-year old Taino mermaid named Aycayia resurfaces to indict the logics of possession and extraction that have shaped the Caribbean since colonial contact. Having swum afoul of a sportfishing derby off the rural island of Black Conch in 1976, Aycayia is hooked-quite literally-by "white men from Florida [who] came to fish for marlin and inst…
A Man for Strength and a Woman for Good Looks”
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Gloucester's fishing schooners bridged masculinized and feminized labor and were central to negotiations about industry risk. Reading these vessels alongside literature, newspapers, and art, I argue that their complex cultural position is legible in their design and in constructions of their gender
Loomings
This article examines the affordances of Indigenous experimental lyric in a melting Arctic. In conversation with geographer Jen Rose Smith’s turn to foreground “experiential and imaginary geographies of Arctic space,” the author explores how the poetry of the North American Arctic represents experiences ranging from colonial extraction to climate disruption. The analysis centers on Joan Naviyuk Kane’s 2019 “Citation in the Wake of Melville” and c…
Art (2 works) · Conversation (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Arctic (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Buddhism (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)