Emily Roehl

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Assistant Professor, English and Journalism, Augustana University (2022- )
Lecturer, Honors College, Texas State University (2020-2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Transitions in Energy, Culture, and Society, The University of Alberta (2019-2020)
Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of California, Santa Barbara (2018-2019)
PhD, American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin (May 2018)
I write about environmental literature, art, and media with a focus on energy, environmental justice, comics, photography, and performance.
Co-founder of Mystery Spot Books | mysteryspotbooks.com

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Indigenous Post-Apocalyptic Filmmaking at Standing Rock

Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

A Field Guide to Oil in Santa Barbara: Pedagogy and Practice for Environmental Media Studies

Media+Environment

During fall 2018, a multidisciplinary cohort of graduate students participated in a course conduc... more During fall 2018, a multidisciplinary cohort of graduate students participated in a course conducted by professors Javiera Barandiarán and Mona Damluji as part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For their final project, the students worked in groups to conduct place-based, site-specific research on the history and politics of oil in Santa Barbara County. Each group led a tour of a site significant to the history of oil in the region and produced a digital portfolio that contained contemporary and archival images, scans of archival documents, and observational site descriptions. The digital portfolios they compiled were then used to create the multimedia narrative and map A Field Guide to Oil in Santa Barbara. This essay contextualizes the Field Guide within the dominant narratives of oil in the Santa Barbara region, which attempt to contain oil as a naturally occurring substance of the past and not an ...

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Making and Meeting Online: A White Paper on E-Conferences, Workshops, and Other Experiments in Low-Carbon Research Exchange

Energy Humanities, 2020

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Introduction to Critical and Creative Engagements with Petro-Media

by Emily Roehl and Rachel Webb Jekanowski

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/revue d'études interculturelle de l'image

Petro-landscapes and Political Imagination: Interview with Steve Rowell

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/revue d'études interculturelle de l'image

Making and Meeting Online: A White Paper on E-Conferences, Workshops, and Other Experiments in Low-Carbon Research Exchange

Academics fly a lot: to research sites and archives, to conferences and workshops. Yet flying has... more Academics fly a lot: to research sites and archives, to conferences and workshops. Yet flying has many negative repercussions. Air travel has disproportionate climate impacts, and for reasons of time, money, and border security, produces many barriers for marginalized scholars, shaping who is able shows up at conferences and thus, who participates in the conversations that define a community of study. Forms of knowledge exchange that do not depend on aviation are thus urgently needed. E-conferences offer on such possibility. As scholars of media and energy, and as e-conference organizers and participants ourselves, we wrote this white paper to highlight what's worked in the past, what hazards lie ahead for the future, and what potential gains could be won in the present. We hope our words will be useful to small conference organizers and professional associations alike. Our aim is not to end in-person meetings but rather to foster effective low-carbon alternatives that can help ...

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Picturing “Oil That Is People”: Energy Frontier Domesticity in Louisiana, 1944

Environmental History

Pageants, Po' Boys, and Pork on a Stick: Documenting the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival

Southern Cultures

Curriculum Vitae

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Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed) by Emily Roehl

Appel à soumissions : Numéro spécial sur « Les Engagements critiques et créatifs avec les pétro-média »

by Rachel Webb Jekanowski and Emily Roehl

Imaginations : Revue d'études interculturelles de l'image, 2020

Ce numéro spécial d'Imaginations sera consacré aux média s'intéressant au pétrole ainsi qu'aux st... more Ce numéro spécial d'Imaginations sera consacré aux média s'intéressant au pétrole ainsi qu'aux structures socio-politiques et économiques qui l'entourent. S'inspirant des études sur la technologie et les médias, sur les sciences humaines consacrées à l'énergie, ainsi que sur un éventail de méthodes d'approche des études visuelles et culturelles, les contribuants examineront de façon théorique l'emploi historique et contemporain des médias pour combattre ou aider les infrastructures pétrolières. Mettant à profit le long engagement d'Imaginations dans les études sur les pétrocultures, dont le numéro spécial de 2012 « Sighting Oil » (édité par Sheena Wilson et Andrew Pendakis), ce numéro rassemblera les critiques des média de l'industrie pétrolière par les méthodes décoloniales issues d'un éventail de disciplines, se concentrant sur l'interdépendance entre le pétrole, le colonialisme des immigrants, la résurgence autochtone et la production médiatique. Ce numéro rassemblera des articles académiques revus de chercheurs et de praticiens, des interviews et des contributions d'artistes (incluant des échantillons d'oeuvres multimédiatiques accompagnés de déclarations d'artistes), ainsi qu'une section de revues critiques (comprenant un essai comparatif de revue de livre, des revues culturelles et des réactions à des expositions digitales à l'âge du COVID-19, etc.). Nous nous intéressons particulièrement à des articles qui reflètent la recherche-création ainsi que l'étude des média. Nous invitons des soumissions qui présentent différents aspects de production médiatique par des artistes, des activistes, autochtones et immigrants, ainsi que par des représentants des compagnies pétrolières, afin d'examiner la complexité du système qui englobe la production culturelle, le colonialisme de peuplement et l'extraction des combustibles fossiles. Étant donnée notre situation géographique sur des territoires autochtones occupés où nous travaillons en tant que chercheurs et enseignants, nous suggérons que les développements énergétiques sont déjà une partie intégrante de l'histoire du colonialisme et de l'implantation des blancs en Amérique du nord. Dans une perspective critique, nous invitons les articles qui incluent et présentent les média visuels dans leurs analyses, incluant des vidéos originales, des photographies, des instantanés de film et des photos des installations artistiques des auteurs.

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CFP for Imaginations Special Issue: Critical & Creative Engagements with Petro-Media

by Rachel Webb Jekanowski and Emily Roehl

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 2020

This special issue of Imaginations will concentrate on media engaging with petroleum and its atte... more This special issue of Imaginations will concentrate on media engaging with petroleum and its attendant socio-political and economic structures. Drawing on technology and media studies, energy humanities scholarship, and a range of methods in visual and cultural studies, contributions will theorize contemporary and historical uses of media to resist and facilitate petroleum infrastructures. Our issue seeks to mobilize critiques of corporate petro-media with decolonial methods from a range of disciplines, focusing on the interlacing of oil, settler colonialism, Indigenous resurgence, and media production. We are soliciting peer-reviewed essays from scholars and practitioners, artist interviews and contributions, and essays for a review section. We are particularly invested in featuring research-creation and media-rich scholarship.

Submission deadline: December 10th, 2020

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Indigenous Post-Apocalyptic Filmmaking at Standing Rock

Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2