Sarah Dimick

Sarah Dimick is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University, jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Program in Environmental Policy and Culture. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. Her research examines climate change and environmental justice in global Anglophone literatures, emphasizing how literature conveys climate knowledge across cultures. Her book Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (2024) explores environmental arrhythmias and their impacts on literary forms. Her work has been supported by prestigious institutions including the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

Professor Dimick’s research spans contemporary poetry, climate fiction, and postcolonial ecocriticism. She collaborates with environmental justice organizations and co-edits the Under the Sign of Nature book series for the University of Virginia Press. Her teaching focuses on integrating interdisciplinary approaches to environmental humanities, emphasizing global and postcolonial perspectives.

Her recent articles analyze themes like ecological grief in slam poetry, urban guerrilla gardening as climate activism, and seasonal disarray in classic and modern literature. She actively seeks to bridge academic research with public engagement through writing and pedagogy.