Niall Peach

Niall Peach is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Coe College (2022–present) and an Associate Editor of Plant Perspectives (2025–present). His research integrates literary analysis with Plant Studies and Blue Humanities to explore environmental philosophy through non-human entanglements, particularly focusing on 19th–20th century Mexico and the Caribbean. He examines raciality and environmental narratives within nation-states, emphasizing Afro-descendent and Indigenous perspectives amid ecological change.

Education includes a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature and Culture from Purdue University (2022), an M.A. from Purdue (2017), and a B.A. (Hons) in Modern Foreign Languages (Spanish, German, Arabic) from Durham University (2014).

His monograph The Garden State: Plantation Politics of (Up)Rooting in 19^th Century Latin America, based on his doctoral work supported by the Bilsland Fellowship, critiques agro-racial politics through garden spaces linked to plantations. Ongoing projects include Mexico's Liquid Modernities, exploring hydrocommons and silt in 19^th-century Indigenous contexts, and contributions to edited volumes on topics like the ceiba tree and guinea grass in Latin American cultures.

Awards include the Bilsland Fellowship. His work emphasizes experiential pedagogy and community-engaged education. Current research focuses on transnational environmental humanities and decolonial frameworks.