Ali Glassie will visit the Literature of the Sea seminar to lecture from a book-in-progress, “Atlantic Shapeshifters: Sea Literature’s Fluid Forms.”

Gilman Hall, Room 219. 10:30am–12pm.

This is an “open classroom” event open to all JHU affiliates and members of the public.

Allison Glassie is Assistant Professor of English and Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University. Her research, teaching, and outreach explore the influence of the ocean’s cultural histories and ecological dynamics on the literatures of the Americas. Her current book project, “Atlantic Shapeshifters: Sea Literature’s Fluid Forms,” looks to 20th Century and contemporary texts in English, Spanish, and Portuguese to explore marine scientific knowledge and vernacular epistemologies of the marine environment. Professor Glassie’s writing appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Coriolis, and sx/salon, a literary platform of Small Axe. She has also published collaborative work on water justice in Bioscience and covered transatlantic yacht racing for Blue Water Sailing. She holds a PhD in English (University of Virginia, 2019) and an MA in Marine Affairs (University of Rhode Island, 2011). She was previously Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University.