Allison Carruth

Position
Professor of American studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Role
Environmental humanities and arts, climate futures, food movements
Bio/Description

Allison Carruth is Professor of American studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute and the director of a Princeton lab focused on environmental media and storytelling. Her current research examines how narratives about contemporary environmental challenges take shape across the arts and sciences and effect different frameworks for action. The author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food  (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-author of Literature and Food Studies (Routledge, 2018), she also is an expert in the field of food studies.