Research Specialist in Environmental Humanities
University of Virginia
Adrienne Ghaly is a Research Specialist in Environmental Humanities at UVA working on EH labs in coastal futures, integrating ethics into climate change research, planetary pressures on sacred sites, and on research development for new cross-disciplinary projects in climate equity. Her research focuses on the uses of literature to address urgent global challenges and the cultural aspects of biodiversity loss. She leads a multi-year research project on archives of extinction. From 2017-2021 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Arts and Sciences she taught courses on Extinction in Literature and Culture, The Novel and the Refugee Crisis, World on Fire: Communicating Environmental Catastrophe, and The Hidden Lives of Everyday Objects.