Elizabeth DeLoughrey

Elizabeth DeLoughrey is a Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research bridges postcolonial and Indigenous approaches to the Environmental Humanities, with a focus on island studies, climate change, and militarization in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands (Oceania).

Her scholarship includes foundational monographs such as Allegories of the Anthropocene (2019) and Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures (2007). She has co-edited influential volumes like Postcolonial Ecologies (2011) and Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities (2015), which redefined postcolonial environmental discourse.

Her recent articles explore speculative fictions, oceanic epistemologies, and climate justice, reflecting trends in critical ocean studies and transdisciplinary environmental research. These works span keywords like militarized ecologies, interspecies relationality, and digital planetarity, with subfields including tidalectics, volumetric sovereignty, and nuclear Pacific legacies.

DeLoughrey's accolades include prestigious fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her work integrates literary analysis, feminist theory, and critical ocean studies to challenge dominant narratives of globalization and environmental crisis.