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TRENTU.CA / English / Faculty & Research / Undergraduate Faculty / Finis Dunaway

Finis Dunaway

Professor, History

B.A. (N. Carolina), Ph.D. (Rutgers)
Office: Traill College, Wallis Hall 118
Telephone: 705 748 1011 x 7026 
E-mail: finisdunaway@trentu.ca

 

Research Interests:

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

Books:

  SeeSeeing Green by Finis Dunawaying Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
 
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)

 ▪ John G. Cawelti Award, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

 ▪ AEJMC History Division Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and
   Mass Communication

 ▪ Robert K. Martin Book Prize, Canadian Association for American Studies

 

 Photo of book cover entitled, "Natrual Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental ReformNatural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005; paperback, 2008).

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Articles:

“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.]

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