Pascale Manning

Pascale Manning is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, affiliated with the College of Letters and Science - Humanities Division. Her research bridges literary criticism with geological and environmental studies, focusing on narrative structures in Indigenous literature and Anthropocene discourse.

• Research Interests: Indigenous literature, Anthropocene realism, geological imagination, and interdisciplinary science-humanities methodologies.
• Email: manningp@uwosh.edu

Her recent publications analyze Indigenous authors like Thomas King and Linda Hogan through geological and ecological frameworks, exploring temporal scales, memory, and human-nature relationships. Articles such as The Climate of Indigenous Literature (2024) and Natural Histories and Fictive Discourse (2023) highlight her focus on scientific metaphors in literary contexts.

Notable themes include:

• Anthropocene denial in Victorian texts
• Geological time in narrative theory
• Intersections of Lyellian geology, Darwinian evolution, and Freudian psychoanalysis
• Memory vacancy and storytelling ethics