Savannah DiGregorio
Savannah’s current work examines Judeo-Christian narrative and ritual as they inform overlapping processes of racialization and antiblack violence between human and animal in the literature and art of the US South and Caribbean.
Specialization(s)
- Environmental Humanities
- Critical Race Studies
- Critical Animal Studies
- Hemispheric Studies
- Racial Capital
- Violence Studies
- 20th-21st Century American Literature
Representative publications
“A Martial Meteorology: Carceral Ecology in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing.” Forthcoming in Épistémocritique. September 2022.
“Feral Hogs, Immigration, and the Southern Border Crisis in the US South of Julia Elliott’s The New and Improved Romie Futch.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Study of Literature and Environment. December 2021.
Awards
- Noel Polk Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 2022
- Russell G. Hamilton Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2019-Current
- Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Award for top Faulkner essay, Southern Writers, Southern Writing, University of Mississippi, 2017