Teresa Shewry
Biographic Data
| ID | 642252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teresa Shewry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Shewry |
| SIGNATURE | SHEWRY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speculation in the Dark
Scholars have long conceptualized the night—its dreams, nocturnal animals, light/dark polarities, and more features—as vital to science fiction and other speculative genres. In this essay, I turn attention to how speculative writing is engaging with the vast environmental changes that Earth’s nights are undergoing, from lighting proliferation to rapidly warming temperatures. Australian author Robbie Arnott’s novel The Rain Heron (2020) offers a s…
Uncertain Waters and Irony in Australian Settler Literatures
Critics are increasingly recognizing the presence of irony in environmental cultures, often stressing its ability to highlight disjunctions between the individual's convictions and their compromised behaviors. This article extends this work by taking up the relationship between irony and settler-colonial imaginaries in writings about unpredictable bodies of water. Focusing on settler writing in Australia, the article juxtaposes nineteenth-century…
Many Nights
This essay builds on environmental humanistic scholarship about the night in a study of arts associated with the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, a lighting-regulated locale in Aotearoa / New Zealand, that is part of an international network of places intended to protect the night sky. Chris Murphy’s time lapse, South Celestial Pole from Mt John (2016), shot in Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, hastens time and util…
The History and Limits of Experimentation: Atmospheric Things in John Dollar
The History and Limits of Experimentation: Atmospheric Things in John Dollar Teresa Shewry (bio) and Christopher A. Walker (bio) Marianne Wiggins’s John Dollar: A Novel (1989) has often been read for its participation in the desert island literary genre.1 This complex and enduring genre depicts islands as imaginative sites of experimentation, as spaces in which to explore and confirm hypotheses about violence, education, human nature, and more. I…
Ice Thieves
Navigating humor’s potentials for violence and for creative and critical connections with oceanic catastrophes, from extinctions to sea-level rise, this essay argues that humor is a diverse and perhaps important dimension of contemporary cultural production about the changing oceans. Jane Rawson’s A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists uses humor to emphasize fictional people’s challenging and idiosyncratic daily struggles to survive in a fut…
What is marine justice
Vital Humor: Extinction and Arts of Laughter in Hawai'i
Hawaiian activists and scholars theorize ocean protection as dependent on varied beings and the relationships they can form. But colonial structures still shape efforts in ocean protection, as when the ocean is framed as a frontier space and practices described as "science" are used to undermine Hawaiian relationships with the ocean. In this essay, I explore how Native Hawaiian poet Joe Balaz and marine algae specialist Isabella Aiona Abbott brin…
Going Fishing: Activism against Deep Ocean Mining, from the Raukūmara Basin to the Bismarck Sea
Corporations and states are positioning the immensely deep waters and undersea lands of the Pacific Ocean as frontiers that are only just becoming known and important through their efforts to extract fossil fuels, copper, gold, and silver, among other materials. Despite these aggressive attempts to territorialize the ocean as a frontier, seabed mining has become an embattled site in the Pacific, where it is opposed by social movements in specific…
Sea of secrets: Imagining illicit fishing in Robert Barclay'sMeļaļand Rob Stewart'sSharkwater
This essay analyses the way in which contemporary literature and film critically respond to criminalized fishing practices in the Pacific, at a time of severe marine environmental degradation. It argues that in the documentary film Sharkwater (2006). Rob Stewart works to designate the shark fin industry as illicit, placing shark fishers on the margins of ethical and social life. Stewart’s emphasis on the marginal status of shark fishers is compli…
Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century
In Search of Changed Climates: Water, Weather, and Sociality in Gary Pak's ‘Language of the Geckos’
In postcolonial studies, national and indigenous communities are often partly framed in relation to the relatively stable, enduring space of the land. As we move into more amphibious or aerial realms, however, questions about these frameworks emerge. Is there a space indicated by water and climate? Do the spaces of water and climate designate particular socialities (such as the nation), as the land often has? If any concept and practice of commun…
Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century
In Search of Changed Climates: Water, Weather, and Sociality in Gary Pak's ‘Language of the Geckos’
In postcolonial studies, national and indigenous communities are often partly framed in relation to the relatively stable, enduring space of the land. As we move into more amphibious or aerial realms, however, questions about these frameworks emerge. Is there a space indicated by water and climate? Do the spaces of water and climate designate particular socialities (such as the nation), as the land often has? If any concept and practice of commun…
Sea of secrets: Imagining illicit fishing in Robert Barclay'sMeļaļand Rob Stewart'sSharkwater
This essay analyses the way in which contemporary literature and film critically respond to criminalized fishing practices in the Pacific, at a time of severe marine environmental degradation. It argues that in the documentary film Sharkwater (2006). Rob Stewart works to designate the shark fin industry as illicit, placing shark fishers on the margins of ethical and social life. Stewart’s emphasis on the marginal status of shark fishers is compli…
Going Fishing: Activism against Deep Ocean Mining, from the Raukūmara Basin to the Bismarck Sea
Corporations and states are positioning the immensely deep waters and undersea lands of the Pacific Ocean as frontiers that are only just becoming known and important through their efforts to extract fossil fuels, copper, gold, and silver, among other materials. Despite these aggressive attempts to territorialize the ocean as a frontier, seabed mining has become an embattled site in the Pacific, where it is opposed by social movements in specific…
Ice Thieves
Navigating humor’s potentials for violence and for creative and critical connections with oceanic catastrophes, from extinctions to sea-level rise, this essay argues that humor is a diverse and perhaps important dimension of contemporary cultural production about the changing oceans. Jane Rawson’s A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists uses humor to emphasize fictional people’s challenging and idiosyncratic daily struggles to survive in a fut…
What is marine justice
Vital Humor: Extinction and Arts of Laughter in Hawai'i
Hawaiian activists and scholars theorize ocean protection as dependent on varied beings and the relationships they can form. But colonial structures still shape efforts in ocean protection, as when the ocean is framed as a frontier space and practices described as "science" are used to undermine Hawaiian relationships with the ocean. In this essay, I explore how Native Hawaiian poet Joe Balaz and marine algae specialist Isabella Aiona Abbott brin…
The History and Limits of Experimentation: Atmospheric Things in John Dollar
The History and Limits of Experimentation: Atmospheric Things in John Dollar Teresa Shewry (bio) and Christopher A. Walker (bio) Marianne Wiggins’s John Dollar: A Novel (1989) has often been read for its participation in the desert island literary genre.1 This complex and enduring genre depicts islands as imaginative sites of experimentation, as spaces in which to explore and confirm hypotheses about violence, education, human nature, and more. I…
Many Nights
This essay builds on environmental humanistic scholarship about the night in a study of arts associated with the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, a lighting-regulated locale in Aotearoa / New Zealand, that is part of an international network of places intended to protect the night sky. Chris Murphy’s time lapse, South Celestial Pole from Mt John (2016), shot in Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, hastens time and util…
Uncertain Waters and Irony in Australian Settler Literatures
Critics are increasingly recognizing the presence of irony in environmental cultures, often stressing its ability to highlight disjunctions between the individual's convictions and their compromised behaviors. This article extends this work by taking up the relationship between irony and settler-colonial imaginaries in writings about unpredictable bodies of water. Focusing on settler writing in Australia, the article juxtaposes nineteenth-century…
Speculation in the Dark
Scholars have long conceptualized the night—its dreams, nocturnal animals, light/dark polarities, and more features—as vital to science fiction and other speculative genres. In this essay, I turn attention to how speculative writing is engaging with the vast environmental changes that Earth’s nights are undergoing, from lighting proliferation to rapidly warming temperatures. Australian author Robbie Arnott’s novel The Rain Heron (2020) offers a s…
History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)