Allison Carruth

Allison Carruth is a Professor at Princeton University, affiliated with the Effron Center for the Study of America and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Her research bridges environmental humanities, technology studies, and literary criticism, focusing on intersections between nature, innovation, and cultural narratives. Recent work examines how tech narratives shape environmental futures, as seen in her 2025 book Novel Ecologies, which critiques techno-utopianism in Silicon Valley. She explores food systems, biotechnology, and climate change through interdisciplinary lenses, blending literary analysis with ecological and technological critique.

Carruth’s scholarship traces the cultural and material legacies of modernist gastronomy, digital infrastructures, and environmental art. Her articles (2014–2025) analyze synthetic biology, digital cloud technologies, and space colonization as sites of contested ecological futures. She challenges dominant narratives of 'green tech' solutions, emphasizing historical contexts of exploitation and power.

Her work has been featured in the Princeton Humanities Council’s Faculty Bookshelf, highlighting contributions to environmental humanities. While no formal awards are listed here, her publications reflect sustained engagement with global environmental discourse.