Jessica Holmes

Part-time Lecturer

holmes07@uw.edu

Fields of Interest

• Affect
• Creative Writing
• Ecocriticism
• English
• Environment
• Interdisciplinary Writing
• Poetry and Poetics
• Public Scholarship

• Environmental Humanities
• Animal Studies
• Contemporary Poetry

Background and Experience

Summary

M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Washington, 2015

B.A., English, Lewis & Clark College, 2011

Awards: 

Mellon Fellow for New Public Projects in the Humanities (2019)

Joan Webber Award for 200-Level Teaching, Winner (2020)

Joan Webber Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student, Honorable Mention (2020)

Donna Gerstenberger Dissertation Fellowship (2020)

Research

Publications, Essays and Articles

• “Writing The Cow: Poetry, Activism & The Texts of Meat.” Auto/Biography Studies. 2020. (Issue republished by Routledge as a book, forthcoming.)  

Publications, Book Chapters

• “Vegan Studies and Food Studies.” Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies. 2021. (Completed/published)
• “The Trouble with Resilience.” Intimate Relations: Communicating (in) the Anthropocene. Lexington Press. 2021. (Completed/published)
• "Teaching Public Activism in the Humanities: Navigating a Classroom Climate in Crisis.” Critical Animal Theory: Critical Theory, Social Construction, and Total Liberation. Lexington Books. Forthcoming, 2021. (Forthcoming)
• “The Trouble with Resilience.” Intimate Relations: Communicating (in) the Anthropocene. Lexington Press. Forthcoming, 2021. (Forthcoming)

Courses Taught

Autumn 2021

• ENGL 265 A: Introduction to Environmental Humanities
• ENGL 299 G: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Natural Sciences

Spring 2021

• ENGL 298 C: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Social Sciences

Autumn 2020

• ENGL 121 D: Composition: Social Issues

Spring 2020

• ENGL 199 D: Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Science
• ENGL 199 E: Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Science
• ENGL 199 F: Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Science

Autumn 2019

• ENGL 299 F: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Natural Sciences

Spring 2019

• ENGL 265 A: Introduction to Environmental Humanities

Autumn 2018

• ENGL 108 M: Writing Ready: Preparing for College Writing

Winter 2018

• ENGL 121 E: Composition: Social Issues

Autumn 2017

• ENGL 121 G: Composition: Social Issues

Spring 2017

• ENGL 111 Q: Composition: Literature

Winter 2017

• ENGL 111 Y: Composition: Literature

Autumn 2016

• ENGL 108 F: Writing Ready: Preparing For College Writing
• ENGL 111 H: Composition: Literature

Spring 2016

• ENGL 131 R: Composition: Exposition

Winter 2016

• ENGL 131 V: Composition: Exposition

Autumn 2015

• ENGL 108 R: Writing Ready: Preparing For College Writing
• ENGL 131 A2: Composition: Exposition

Spring 2015

• ENGL 283 A: Beginning Verse Writing

Winter 2015

• ENGL 131 T: Composition: Exposition

Autumn 2014

• ENGL 131 D6: Composition: Exposition

Spring 2014

• ENGL 131 G5: Composition: Exposition

Winter 2014

• ENGL 131 C1: Composition: Exposition

Autumn 2013

• ENGL 131 X: Composition: Exposition - Course Website

Additional Courses

Honors 394: “Public Activism: Animals, Climate & Environmental Justice” (Summer 2020, online)

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