Annie Dwyer

Part-Time Lecturer
Annie Dwyer

Contact Information

PDL B102-B

Biography

Annie Dwyer (she/her) is a lecturer in the Comparative History of Ideas, where she is one of the lead instructors of the senior capstone course. From 2017-2021, Annie was also the Assistant Program Director of a Mellon-funded initiative at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics, which focused on fostering publicly engaged scholarship and teaching in graduate education. Annie earned her PhD in English Literature and Culture from the University of Washington in 2014. Her scholarship in critical animal studies and the environmental humanities explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and species across social formations and cultural forms. She is currently working on a book project that follows shifting articulations of ecological grief in the American context from the early conservation movement through the rise of youth-led climate activism provisionally titled Losing Nature: American Literature and Ecological Grief. Annie is also a mental health counselor with a particular interest in climate psychology.

Courses Taught

CHID Thesis Advising Areas

I am especially excited to advise CHID senior projects that engage with the questions and concerns of the environmental humanities, critical animal studies, literary and cultural studies, and feminist and queer studies. As a trained clinician, I am also well-poised to support projects grappling in some way with affect, mental health, and so forth—though I bring an interdisciplinary, critical lens to such topics. Given my background supporting public scholarship at the Simpson Center, I am particularly well-poised to support public-facing projects, but my experience teaching composition also informs my belief that the “traditional” academic paper, too, can and should be an exciting creative endeavor!

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