Bio

Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author of four books and dozens of essays and interviews on environmental media, decolonial theory and praxis, queer femme and creative and embodied research methods and what she deems as “antidotes to the colonial Anthropocene.” 

Her work addresses artful living and survivance in spaces of social and ecological suffering. She is the Director of the new Environmental Humanities Institute @ Brown University, and Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor. She is also Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media, as well as faculty member in the Brown Arts Institute.