Sarah Dimick
Sarah Dimick (she/her) is a literary scholar working in the environmental humanities. Her work is located at the intersection of climate science and global Anglophone literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries. In her broader research and teaching, she engages environmental justice, postcolonial and feminist environmentalisms, animal studies, petroaesthetics, and theories of the environmental future.
Before becoming an assistant professor of English at Harvard, Dimick earned a B.A. from Carleton College (2006), an M.F.A. in poetry from New York University (2010), and a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017). At Madison, she was an active member of the Center for Culture, History, and Environment. Dimick then spent two years at Northwestern University as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities and a year as an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Lafayette College.
Dimick’s writing appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, and Edge Effects, among other venues. To learn more about her work, you can listen to Dimick discuss climate fiction on Chicago Public Radio.