Heather I Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 779554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather I Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather I |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN H I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5134-7838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Using Study Abroad as a Tool for Decolonizing Global Health: A Qualitative Case Study
Decolonization address inequities in global settings that persist from colonial era practices. This pilot study gathers data from participants (student participants, n = 8; program facilitators, n = 3; local partners, n = 3) involved in a study abroad program to India and analyzes post-program perceptions related to select aims of decolonizing global health: a) valuing local knowledge, b) building lasting partnerships, c) transforming communities…
Kafka and the Anthropocene
The many explanations of the geological age of the Anthropocene typically feature the question of just how much the Anthropos has already altered the planet's ecosystems and how much future change will result now that “we,” or rather, industrialized humans consumed by fossil fuels and extractivist, plantation economics, have attained the status of a geological force. Such large-scale agency! But collective agency is not always celebrated by the e…
Cross-Infections of Vegetal-Human Bodies in Science Fiction
It is particularly disturbing when seemingly inert plants escape the category of nourishing food and instead become transmitters of vegetal diseases infecting our human bodies or transforming us into plant-human hybrids or even plant-infused zombies. This article analyzes the ecological and alimentary implications of three sf texts in which plants infect human bodies or use them as a kind of walking soil from which to sprout: Paolo Bacigalupi's n…
Vegetal Scale in the Anthropocene: The Dark Green
When exploring the problem of delineating possible “scales” useful to describe the Anthropocene’s ecological changes, I suggest plant-human relations as the basis of our models rather than solely Human impact with a capital “H” as if a stand-alone species. Instead, human beings are a species within the photosynthesis-shaped, oxygen-infused atmosphere, and countering the ongoing industrial ecocide means seeking multispecies justice. One may claim …
Robin Wall Kimmerer. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Petro-texts, plants, and people in the Anthropocene: The Dark Green
The 'dark green' refers to the green plant-human relationships that undergird human cultures as well as the darkly petroleum-fueled industrialization, mass species extinctions, and strange new ecosystems in the Anthropocene. I consider briefly three petro-culture novels based on various 'road trips' that explicitly address both the long-term and massive, albeit oft-ignored, ecological power of plants whether in living vegetal form or in their rot…
Threatening Animals
Threatening predators and pernicious beasts continue to play significant roles in the human imaginary even as human threats to other species increase exponentially in the age of Anthropocene.While posthumanist animal studies and material ecocriticism sync human and other animals within the biosphere's living interactions, our shared material reciprocity is currently skewing ever more towards the human threat to other species -and so to ourselves …
The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: An Introduction
The introduction to The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: Posthumanism or Humanism? sketches out the ambiguous response of the humanities to the long-term anthropological thinking about the human as an ecological being from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the more recent constructivist worldviews typically discrediting biological thinking about humans as intrinsically "essentialist" and "nature" as cultural fabrication…
Human and Non-human Agencies in the Anthropocene // Agencialidades humanas y no-humanas en el Antropoceno
The era of human impact throughout the Earth’s biosphere since the Industrial Revolution that has recently been named the Anthropocene poses many challenges to the humanities, particularly in terms of human and non-human agency. Using diverse examples from literature, travel reflections, and science that document a wide range of agencies beyond the human including landscape, ice, weather, volcanic energy or gastropods, and insects, this essay see…
On Bridges, Birds, and Cosmopolitan Ecocriticism: Conversations with Ursula Heise
Dirt Theory and Material Ecocriticism
Journal Article Dirt Theory and Material Ecocriticism Get access Heather I. Sullivan Heather I. Sullivan [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 19, Issue 3, Summer 2012, Pages 515–531, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/iss067 Published: 01 December 2012
Unbalanced Nature, Unbounded Bodies, and Unlimited Technology: Ecocriticism and Karen Traviss’ Wess’har Series
While nature is often claimed to be a space of harmonized balance or an antidote to the chaos of the modern world, we need a more grounded assessment of nature as endlessly changing and much less predictable than we like to assume. In this essay, I explore Karen Traviss’ provocative exploration of unbalanced nature and unbounded bodies in her wess’har series with the guidance of two ecocritics who reject the concept of balanced nature, Dana Phill…
Goethe und die Verzeitlichung der Natur
Dirt Theory and Material Ecocriticism
Journal Article Dirt Theory and Material Ecocriticism Get access Heather I. Sullivan Heather I. Sullivan [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 19, Issue 3, Summer 2012, Pages 515–531, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/iss067 Published: 01 December 2012
Human and Non-human Agencies in the Anthropocene // Agencialidades humanas y no-humanas en el Antropoceno
The era of human impact throughout the Earth’s biosphere since the Industrial Revolution that has recently been named the Anthropocene poses many challenges to the humanities, particularly in terms of human and non-human agency. Using diverse examples from literature, travel reflections, and science that document a wide range of agencies beyond the human including landscape, ice, weather, volcanic energy or gastropods, and insects, this essay see…
Petro-texts, plants, and people in the Anthropocene: The Dark Green
The 'dark green' refers to the green plant-human relationships that undergird human cultures as well as the darkly petroleum-fueled industrialization, mass species extinctions, and strange new ecosystems in the Anthropocene. I consider briefly three petro-culture novels based on various 'road trips' that explicitly address both the long-term and massive, albeit oft-ignored, ecological power of plants whether in living vegetal form or in their rot…
Goethe und die Verzeitlichung der Natur
Unbalanced Nature, Unbounded Bodies, and Unlimited Technology: Ecocriticism and Karen Traviss’ Wess’har Series
While nature is often claimed to be a space of harmonized balance or an antidote to the chaos of the modern world, we need a more grounded assessment of nature as endlessly changing and much less predictable than we like to assume. In this essay, I explore Karen Traviss’ provocative exploration of unbalanced nature and unbounded bodies in her wess’har series with the guidance of two ecocritics who reject the concept of balanced nature, Dana Phill…
Dirt Theory and Material Ecocriticism
Journal Article Dirt Theory and Material Ecocriticism Get access Heather I. Sullivan Heather I. Sullivan [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 19, Issue 3, Summer 2012, Pages 515–531, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/iss067 Published: 01 December 2012
On Bridges, Birds, and Cosmopolitan Ecocriticism: Conversations with Ursula Heise
Human and Non-human Agencies in the Anthropocene // Agencialidades humanas y no-humanas en el Antropoceno
The era of human impact throughout the Earth’s biosphere since the Industrial Revolution that has recently been named the Anthropocene poses many challenges to the humanities, particularly in terms of human and non-human agency. Using diverse examples from literature, travel reflections, and science that document a wide range of agencies beyond the human including landscape, ice, weather, volcanic energy or gastropods, and insects, this essay see…
Threatening Animals
Threatening predators and pernicious beasts continue to play significant roles in the human imaginary even as human threats to other species increase exponentially in the age of Anthropocene.While posthumanist animal studies and material ecocriticism sync human and other animals within the biosphere's living interactions, our shared material reciprocity is currently skewing ever more towards the human threat to other species -and so to ourselves …
The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: An Introduction
The introduction to The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: Posthumanism or Humanism? sketches out the ambiguous response of the humanities to the long-term anthropological thinking about the human as an ecological being from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the more recent constructivist worldviews typically discrediting biological thinking about humans as intrinsically "essentialist" and "nature" as cultural fabrication…
Robin Wall Kimmerer. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Petro-texts, plants, and people in the Anthropocene: The Dark Green
The 'dark green' refers to the green plant-human relationships that undergird human cultures as well as the darkly petroleum-fueled industrialization, mass species extinctions, and strange new ecosystems in the Anthropocene. I consider briefly three petro-culture novels based on various 'road trips' that explicitly address both the long-term and massive, albeit oft-ignored, ecological power of plants whether in living vegetal form or in their rot…
Vegetal Scale in the Anthropocene: The Dark Green
When exploring the problem of delineating possible “scales” useful to describe the Anthropocene’s ecological changes, I suggest plant-human relations as the basis of our models rather than solely Human impact with a capital “H” as if a stand-alone species. Instead, human beings are a species within the photosynthesis-shaped, oxygen-infused atmosphere, and countering the ongoing industrial ecocide means seeking multispecies justice. One may claim …
Cross-Infections of Vegetal-Human Bodies in Science Fiction
It is particularly disturbing when seemingly inert plants escape the category of nourishing food and instead become transmitters of vegetal diseases infecting our human bodies or transforming us into plant-human hybrids or even plant-infused zombies. This article analyzes the ecological and alimentary implications of three sf texts in which plants infect human bodies or use them as a kind of walking soil from which to sprout: Paolo Bacigalupi's n…
Kafka and the Anthropocene
The many explanations of the geological age of the Anthropocene typically feature the question of just how much the Anthropos has already altered the planet's ecosystems and how much future change will result now that “we,” or rather, industrialized humans consumed by fossil fuels and extractivist, plantation economics, have attained the status of a geological force. Such large-scale agency! But collective agency is not always celebrated by the e…
Using Study Abroad as a Tool for Decolonizing Global Health: A Qualitative Case Study
Decolonization address inequities in global settings that persist from colonial era practices. This pilot study gathers data from participants (student participants, n = 8; program facilitators, n = 3; local partners, n = 3) involved in a study abroad program to India and analyzes post-program perceptions related to select aims of decolonizing global health: a) valuing local knowledge, b) building lasting partnerships, c) transforming communities…
Environmental ethics (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropocene (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Ecology (4 works)