Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Elizabeth DeLoughrey is a professor at UCLA. She authored Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Literatures, and Allegories of the Anthropocene andco-edited Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture; Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment; and Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches in addition to numerous journal issues on critical ocean, island and militarism studies. Her scholarship has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Fulbright New Zealand, the Rachel Carson Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Submarine Futures: Cold War Aesthetics and its Afterlives
During her fellowship at the gd:c, Elizabeth will be working on a book project entitled Submarine Futures: Cold War Aesthetics and its Afterlives, which examines the deep seas as a vital frontier for Cold War militarism and a cultural and aesthetic space for contemporary art from the global South. More specifically, she will be writing about the International Seabed Authority and its configuration of deep-sea polymetallic nodules as figures of non-life, placing these discourses in conversation with indigenous ontologies of the ocean and its inhabitants.