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Sage Gerson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literary Arts and Studies at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She also teaches in the Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies (NCSS) undergraduate concentration and both the NCSS and Global Arts and Cultures (GAC) graduate programs. Gerson holds a PhD in English with an emphasis in Environment and Society from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Her research explores intersections of environmental humanities and colonial modernity through frameworks of Black Studies and Native American/Indigenous Studies. Current work focuses on a book project examining electrified literary imaginaries that challenge developmental narratives of progress. Key interdisciplinary interests include:
- Indigenous ecologies and environmental justice
- Decolonial/anticolonial theory and feminist praxis
- Energy infrastructure and speculative futurisms
- Race-critical approaches to literature and media
Gerson has received the 2023–24 Faculty Fellowship at the RISD Museum's Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Collection. Her scholarship appears in venues including Social Text, Media+Environment, and The Black Scholar’s Social Justice Handbook series.
She is currently developing a monograph analyzing how literary works reconceptualize electricity beyond extractive frameworks toward transformative environmental perspectives.
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