Alison Maas

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324 Voorhies
Office Hours
on fellowship 23-24 (by appt via zoom; email for link)
Bio

Biography: 

Education

Vanderbilt University, B.A. with a double major in English and Classical Civilizations, 2014-2017.

Publications (select)

“Storms.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities. Edited by Steve Mentz, Mohammed Muharram, Serpil Oppermann, and Sandra Young. (in progress).

“Oceans.” In The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English. Edited by Matthew Stratton. Routledge Literature Companions. New York: Routledge, 2023.

“‘Near the Sea:’ Maritime Kinship and Oceanic Kinship in Stevenson’s Treasure Island.” Atlantic Studies, for special issue, “Kinship as Critical Idiom for Oceanic Studies,” June 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.2000831.

“‘Where Tide and River Meet’: The Estuarial Imaginaries of Sarah Orne Jewett, H.D., and Louise Bogan.” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, December 2020, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1868255.

Fellowships and Grants 

Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship, UC Davis: 2023-2024.

Summer Institute for Environmental Humanities, Colby College: Summer 2023.

 MLA Convention Grant: 2023.

ASLE Subvention Grant: 2022-2023.

“Coast as Crisis: A Humanities-led Multi-Campus Graduate Working Group on Narratives, Ecologies, and Politics of the California Coast” a multicampus graduate student working group. Grant Awarded by University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Co-organized with George Hegarty: 2022-2023.

Bilinski Fellowship at Bodega Bay Marine Lab, UC Davis: 2020-2021.

Public Humanities

MLA Public Humanities Incubator participant, Modern Languages Association (MLA), San Francisco/2023. web page 

“Left of the Coast,” digital counter-cartography project, UCHRI funded. Project Description

Producer of “California’s Eroding Coastline” Podcast Series funded by the Bilinski Fellowship at Bodega Bay Marine Lab. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/californias-eroding-coastline/id1617679050

Co-Editor of Searchable Sea Library for the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College & Mystic Seaport and manager of its “Blue Humanities and Searchable Sea Literature” public Zotero. https://www.zotero.org/groups/4421701/blue_humanities_searchable_sea_lit...

Compiler of “A Bibliography to the Study of Sea Literature” for Searchable Sea Libraryhttps://sites.williams.edu/searchablesealit/a-bibliography-to-the-study-...