Coralations: A Talk with Prof. Melody Jue

On behalf of the Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lunch series, the Graduate Center for Literary Research invites you to join us for a discussion with Prof. Melody Jue centered on her latest book, Coralations: “a philosophical exploration of the media that come into focus when we shift our attention from the highly recognizable coral of the tropics.”

Melody Jue is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working across the fields of ocean humanities, science fiction, science studies, and media theory. She is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press, 2020), which won the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science book award. She is the co-editor with Rafico Ruiz of Saturation (Duke University, 2021) and co-editor with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee of Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press, under contract). Professor Jue has published articles in journals including Grey Room, Configurations, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Resilience, and Media+Environment. Her new work explores the mediations of seaweeds in trans-Pacific contexts.

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 Cosponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research, Comparative Literature program, Department of French and Italian, and Department of German and Slavic Studies