Lisa Fink

Dr. Lisa Fink is an assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of English at Michigan State University. A settler scholar of political ecology and environmental humanities, their research and teaching focus on human-environment and human-animal relations in the context of race, colonialism, and environmental change. Their current book project is a critical race, ethnic, and Indigenous studies account of dominant U.S. environmental discourse, thought, and practice concerning “invasive species” read alongside anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies—and alternative forms of thought and practice that emerge in contestation. Their scholarly writing can be found or is forthcoming in American Quarterly, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Park Science, American Indian Quarterly, and, with Lydia Cagluaq Agnus, in the collection Redefining Land Management in North American Literature and Culture: From Resource to Reciprocity.