Christy Tidwell

Christy Tidwell is Associate Professor of English & Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. She works primarily at the intersection of environmental humanities, speculative fiction, and gender studies. She is Digital Strategies Coordinator for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), co-leader of ASLE’s Ecomedia interest group, and co-organizer of A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene, a nearly carbon neutral virtual conference held in Summer 2018. She wrote the entry on ecohorror for Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova’s Posthuman Glossary (2018), contributed an article on Mira Grant’s Parasite to the ecohorror cluster in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2014), and recently published a chapter on Jurassic Park, Jurassic World , and de-extinction anxiety in Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss (2020). She is also co-editor of both Gender and Environment in Science Fiction with Bridgitte Barclay (Lexington Books, 2018) and Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene with Carter Soles (Penn State University Press, forthcoming).