Trisha Federis Remetir

Trisha Federis Remetir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. Her work bridges critical Filipinx studies, environmental humanities, and decolonial science studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from UC Berkeley.

• Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2022)
• B.A. in English, University of California, Berkeley (2012)

Her research examines diasporic Filipinx relationships with water as a medium of resistance to environmental extractivism. Current projects include a book analyzing anti-extractivist poetics in the Philippine archipelago. She also explores transnational solidarities, feminist of color theory, and environmental memory.

Her recent publications address aquaculture visual culture and ecocritical film analysis. Outside academia, she creates zines and fiber arts, documented in her textile scrapbook.