Anne Raine is Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches courses in American literature, modernist studies, and the environmental humanities. Her book in progress, Feminist Modernism and the Ends of Nature: Science, Nature Work, and Ecological Aesthetics, examines the intersections of modernist literature, the professionalizing sciences, and popular environmentalism in early-twentieth-century US culture.
Anne Raine
Contributions
Modernism, Eco-anxiety, and the Climate Crisis
When In These Times launched in early 2017, it gave voice to a collective sense of shock, a need to connect scholarship with activism and “engage, engage, engage.” Since then, contributors have offered a range of thoughtful reflections on how to study and teach modernism and modernity in these catastrophic times. But until recently the forum has been unsettlingly silent on the climate crisis—even as temperatures and sea levels continue to rise, record-breaking floods and wildfires proliferate, droughts threaten crops and ecosystems, glaciers continue to melt and coral reefs to bleach, and a million animal and plant species face extinction at heartbreakingly accelerated rates.