Nicole Fadellin (Job Talk for Environmental Humanities Teaching Track Search) Wednesday, Feb 7, 4:30pm

Environmental Humanities Teaching Track candidate Dr. Nicole Fadellin will be giving a job talk on Wednesday, February 7th 4:30pm in Posner Hall 277. Please RSVP -- it's not strictly necessary for you to RSVP in order to attend, but it will help us for sending event reminders; getting a head count for coffee/tea; and following up with you to ask for feedback.

Blackout in Three Acts: Energy Colonialism in Puerto Rican Culture

Wednesday, February 7

4:30pm Posner Hall 277

(If unable to attend in person: Join Zoom Meeting)

Please RSVP Coffee, tea, and cookies will be provided

In this talk, Dr. Fadellin will discuss the causes and consequences of the energy crisis in Puerto Rico through works of art. They will demonstrate how to read a work of art through infrastructure, applying the concept of scale to show how Puerto Rican authors and artists connect politics to the everyday embodied experience of infrastructure. The creative works selected highlight the persistence of energy colonialism in the contexts of development, natural disaster, and ongoing reconstruction.

Nicole Fadellin (FADE-uhl-lin) is a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor in the Honors College at Purdue University. Their work examines the relationship between infrastructure and neocolonialism in contemporary Latin America and explores the unique contributions that literary analysis can offer to interdisciplinary conversations. Their first book project focuses on the symbolic and material uses of energy infrastructures by revolutionary movements in Latin America. They received their PhD in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and their recent publications have been featured in The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures by the University of London Press and the Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literary and Cultural Forms.

Questions about the event? Please contact kathyz@cmu.edu

Best,

Kathy

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Kathy Zhang (she/they)

Program Assistant | Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education & Research

Carnegie Mellon University