Samia Rahimtoola

Samia Rahimtoola is an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College, specializing in modern American literature and environmental studies. Her research critiques mainstream environmental paradigms through postcolonial and Black studies frameworks, focusing on themes like imperialism, gender, and racialized landscapes. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and a BA from Reed College.

Her current projects include a scholarly monograph analyzing postwar poetic resistance to sustainability frameworks (Poetry in the Age of Sustainability) and a book-length poem exploring transnational desert spaces (Revelation Desert Flow). Recent publications appear in Post45 Contemporaries, Yearbook of Comparative Literature, and ISLE.

Rahimtoola teaches courses on environmental literature, modern American poetry, and the intersections of gender/sexuality with ecological discourse. Her work bridges literary analysis with critical environmental theory, emphasizing marginalized voices in ecological narratives.