Stacy Alaimo

Stacy Alaimo is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published essays on feminist theory, eco-theory, green cultural studies, American literature, and film, as well as a book entitled Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell, 2000). She is currently writing a book entitled Trans-corporeal Natures: Inhabiting Matter, Practicing Ethics, which examines literature, film, popular culture, architecture, and science studies, in order to forge a new environmental ethics that emerges from the interface between human bodies and nonhuman nature. Her interest in formulating new theories of materiality has also led her to co-edit a volume of feminist theory, entitled Material Feminisms (forthcoming from Indiana UP 2007), which brings together innovative theories of nature, human bodies, and science.

Video Clips

Alaimo talks about the trouble with social constructionism in regards to the problematic relationship between nature and culture:

Alaimo discusses science studies, social construction theory, and how culture influences scientific fact:

Alaimo discusses the complications within the relationship between gender and environmentalism and how she began incorporating the two into her studies:

Alaimo uses the struggle concerning birth control in the early twentieth century as an example showcasing the complex relationship between gender and environment:

Alaimo discusses popular parenting culture's explanation of behaviors as being directly related to gender:

Alaimo discusses the role of nature in monster movies and the idea of human transcendence within the narratives and semiotics of such films:

Alaimo describes the relationship between monster movies and nature in terms of the human desire for kinship with nature and also for the visualization of nature's revenge: