Amy D Propen

Amy D. Propen is an Assistant Professor of Writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on posthuman conservation, environmental humanities, and visual-material rhetoric. She explores how technologies and visual artifacts shape human-nonhuman relationships in the Anthropocene era.

Her notable work includes the book Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene (2018), which examines case studies like ocean plastics’ impact on wildlife and GPS tracking in conservation. She also authored Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics: The Map, the Mill, and the GPS.

No specific scientific awards, grants, or advising roles are mentioned in the provided text. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges rhetoric, animal studies, and geography to advocate for ethical coexistence with nonhuman kin.