Abby Goode is happy to offer lectures on her recent book, Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability (University of North Carolina Press, 2022) and her new research on early climate theories in the American literary history. She also offers workshops on interdisciplinary education and project-based learning, as well as public lectures on sustainability and literature. To arrange a speaking engagement, please contact her directly.
Her recent and upcoming talks include public lectures, scholarly colloquia, faculty seminars, and undergraduate honors program talks, hosted by institutions such as University of Iceland, Yale University, Colby College, the American Antiquarian Society, and University of Rostock in Germany.
SELECTED INVITED TALKS, WORKSHOPS, AND PUBLIC LECTURES
“Frederick Douglass’s Abolitionist Climate Theories. “Conquest and Compost: Taking Root, Making Kin” Symposium, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, July 2025.
“Bridging Ecofeminism and American Studies: Historical and Theoretical Methods.” University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland, April 2025.
“Rethinking the U.S. National Parks.” Humanities@Home and Humanities to Go Speaker Series. New Hampshire Humanities Council. Ongoing. Online, January 2025; Weeks Public Library, Greenland, NH, April 2025; Rivermead Retirement Communities, Peterborough, NH, November 2025; New Hampshire State Parks Annual Park Rangers Meeting, Pembroke, NH; November 2025.
Guest Speaker, Agrarian Studies Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 2023.
Invited Respondent, Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA) Roundtable with Michael Boyden, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, Netherlands, May 2023.
“Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability.” Virtual Book Talk. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, April 2023.
Guest Speaker, Environmental Humanities Faculty Seminar, Colby College, Waterville, ME. October 2022.
Public Book Launch for Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability (2022). Holderness Public Library, Holderness, NH, October 2022.
“What is Sustainability?” Franklin Pierce University Honors Program, Rindge, NH, September 2022.
Guest Faculty Member and Workshop Leader, First Book Institute, Center for American Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, June 2022.
“‘Carlisle in Reverse’: Returning to a Sustainable Future.” Guest Panelist on Ecological Justice and Indigenous Knowledge, Center for American Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, February 2022.
“Black Nationalism and Agrotopias.” Guest Speaker and Graduate Seminar Leader on “Race, Nation, Empire,” Rice University, Houston, TX, March 2021.
“Writing in the Profession.” Guest Panelist on Scholarly Writing, Introduction to Graduate Studies Seminar, Georgia Southern University Department of English, Statesboro, GA, December 2020.
“The Heat is On: New Hampshire and Climate Change.” New Hampshire Humanities Panel, Concord, NH, March 2020 (postponed).
“Sustainability: An American Literary History.” Humanities to Go Speakers Series. New Hampshire Humanities Council. Ongoing. Upper Valley Land Trust, Hanover, NH, January 2020; Hancock Historical Society, Hancock, NH, March 2020 (postponed), Conway Public Library, Conway, NH, May 2021; Durham Public Library, Durham, NH, July 2021; Dover Public Library, Dover, NH, April 2022; Haverhill Public Library, Haverhill, NH, August 2022; Pease Public Library, Plymouth, NH, April 2023.
“How Does Literature Shape Sustainability?” PSU Office of Environmental Sustainability Public Lecture Series. Plymouth, NH, November 2019.
“Agrotopias: Early Sustainability Discourse and American Literature.” American Antiquarian Society Fellows Lecture. Worcester, MA, January 2018.
“Gender the Cultural Legacy of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.” New Hampshire Humanities Public Lecture Series. Littleton Public Library, Littleton, NH, November 2017.
“Confronting ‘Sustainability’ in a First-Year Composition Course.” Workshop Facilitator. “Interweaving Art, Science, and Technology in Our Classrooms.” STEAM Conference for K-12 Educators. Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth, NH, March 2017.
“Eugenic Sustainability.” Graduate Fellows Lecture Series. Rice University, Houston, TX, November 2015.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS (since 2017)
“Rethinking Racial and Climate Materialisms in Poe’s Polar Gothic.” Panel Title: “Poe and Materialism.” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2025.
“Slow Interdisciplinarity: Intentional Integration in Capstone Courses.” American Association of Colleges & Universities Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment, Providence, RI, April 2024.
“Melville’s Ecology of Hunger.” Panel Title: “Melville’s Ecological Thought.” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2023.
Colloquy on Greta LeFleur’s The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2018). American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference, October 2021. (Invited)
“Queer Ecology or Colonial Nightmare?: The Case of Poe’s Pym.” Roundtable Title: “Reading the Ecosexual in the Nineteenth Century.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, Coral Gables, FL, October 2020. (Roundtable Organizer and Chair)
“Ecosexual Relations at Sea.” Panel Title: “Bonsai, Shipwrecks, Households, & Birds: Imagining Sustainable Relations.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2020. (Invited)
“An American Farmer in the Tropics.” Panel title: “Climate and the Body.” Society of Early Americanists’ 11thBiennial Conference, Eugene, OR, March 2019. (Invited)
“Rethinking Early American Literature: An Open Education Case Study.” Panel title: “American Literature Pedagogies.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019.
“‘This is the American Earth’: The Nineteenth-Century Literary Roots of Malthusian Environmentalism.” Panel title: “Population in the Americas.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference. Albuquerque, NM, March 2018.
“Keyword: Sustainability.” Environmental Humanities Seminar. C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference. Albuquerque, NM, March 2018.
“Postbellum Proto-eugenics in Whitman’s Reconstruction Writing.” American Literature Association 28th Annual Conference, Boston, MA, May 2017.
“Sustaining Jefferson.” Roundtable title: “What Do You Want from Early America?” Society of Early Americanists’ 10th Biennial Conference, Tulsa, OK, March 2017.
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