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Finis Dunaway

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 18:19
First Name
Finis
Last Name
Dunaway
Email
finisdunaway@trentu.ca
Phone
705-748-1011 ext. 7026
Location
Traill College, Wallis Hall 118
Campus
Peterborough
Job Title
Professor
Accreditation
B.A. (N. Carolina), Ph.D. (Rutgers)
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Professor Finis Dunaway
Home Department
History
Program Affiliation
English Literature (Co-op Available)
History M.A.
Cultural Studies M.A.
Cultural Studies Ph.D.
English (Public Texts) M.A.
Canadian Studies Ph.D.
Areas of Expertise
Modern American Culture
Media Theory
Publications
“Dr. Spock Is Worried: Visual Media and the Emotional History of American Environmentalism,” in Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics, ed. Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S.K. Young (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), 138-161.
“Beyond Wilderness: Robert Adams, New Topographics, and the Aesthetics of Ecological Citizenship,” in Reframing the New Topographics, ed. Greg Foster-Rice and John Rohrbach (Chicago: Center for AmericanPlaces, 2010), 13-43.
“Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century,” in A Companion to American Environmental History, ed. Douglas Cazaux Sackman (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 266-284.
“Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet,” Environmental History 14 (January 2009): 9-31. [Reprinted in Future Climate Change, ed. Mark Maslin and Samuel Randalls (New York: Routledge, 2011), vol. IV, 391-414.]
“Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics of American Environmentalism,” American Quarterly 60 (March 2008): 67-99.
“Reframing the Last Frontier: Subhankar Banerjee and the Visual Politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,” American Quarterly 58 (March 2006): 159-180. [Reprinted in A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History, ed. Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009), 254-274.]
Areas of Research

Modern United States cultural and environmental history; American Studies; visual culture; mass media and the environment; arctic landscapes

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