Lisa Fink

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Lisa Fink

Lisa Fink , Ph.D., M.F.A.

Assistant Professor
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LB Course Subject Area: Science and Society
Department of English

Holmes Hall, W-35
919 E. Shaw Lane
East Lansing, MI 48825
United States

LBC Courses Taught

LB 133: Introduction to Science and Society
LB 325A: Science and the Environment – Arts and Humanities
LB 492: Senior Seminar

Biography

Dr. Lisa Fink's research and teaching focus on human-environment relations, land management, and Tribal sovereignty. They contribute to the fields of feminist science studies, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, political ecology, Indigenous studies, and Asian American studies. Their current book project is an Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies account of environmental discourse, thought, and practice concerning species invasion as it intersects with anti-immigrant, anti-Asian, and anti-Indigenous discourse—and abolitionist forms of environmental thought and practice that emerge in contestation. Their scholarly writing can be found in American Quarterly, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and Park Science (among others). Dr. Fink is also a poet, and their poetry can be found in magazines such as Ecotone, Boston Review, and Minnesota Review. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Her Disco (dancing girl press, 2013).

Education

Ph.D., Environmental Studies & English, University of Oregon 

M.A., English, University of Oregon 

M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Virginia 

B.S., Zoology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Honors and Awards

  • Lokey Science Doctoral Fellowship, University of Oregon
  • Oregon Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship, University of Oregon
  • Dorys Grover Award, Western Literature Association
  • Jane Campbell Krohn Fellowship in Literature and the Environment, University of Oregon
  • Henry Hoyns Fellowship in Poetry, University of Virginia
  • Fulbright Fellowship in Literature, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Publications