Clara Wilch

Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

Clara Wilch researches how ecology and performance interrelate with a focus on philosophical and creative approaches to understanding and confronting climate change. Her current book project illuminates the climatic influences of “icescapes,” performances that stage encounters between humans and ice, and centers contemporary icescapes of Inuit Nunaat and the circumpolar Arctic. Her publications illuminate the creation of material and social infrastructures while attending to intertwined histories of environmental change, colonialism, economics, and gender. In her teaching, research, and public humanities collaborations, she strives to interweave methods and insights from the humanities, arts, and sciences to support environmental justice and reconceive multispecies relations.

At Vanderbilt, she has designed and taught courses for the Program in Communication of Science and Technology and the Department of English and is affiliated with the Program for Climate and Environmental Studies.