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Delia Byrnes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science & Sustainability at Allegheny College, where she teaches courses on environmental justice, culture, and power. She holds a PhD in English from The University of Texas at Austin and a BA from Simon Fraser University. Her work spans the environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and cultural studies, with a focus on energy justice and environmental futures.
- BA, Simon Fraser University
- MA & PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Her research centers on energy culture, environmental justice, and the intersections of media, identity, and extractive industries in the U.S. Gulf Coast. She explores how literature, film, photography, and digital media engage with petrochemical landscapes and imagine more just multispecies futures. Her current book project, Refining America: Energy, Infrastructure, and the Arts of Resistance in the US Gulf Coast, analyzes cultural responses to extractive regimes through the lens of Black speculative worldmaking, Indigenous futurisms, and environmental activism.
Her recent publications span journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Sustainability, and Environmental History Now, covering topics from digital deepwater imaginaries to anti-racist pedagogy in sustainability education. Her writing engages both academic and public-facing spaces, reflecting a commitment to public environmental humanities.
- Member, Common Worlds Research Collective
- Former volunteer instructor, Inside Literature (Del Valle, TX)
She advises on interdisciplinary sustainability pedagogy and environmental epistemic justice, and her work is supported by collaborative research networks. She has no formal students listed but mentors through curriculum and public scholarship.
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