Annie Dwyer

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.