Aaron Pinnix

Posted January 28, 2025: I am sharing my “Tiny Ecology Project” here for anyone else who may benefit from this information. This semester-long assignment is part of my current “Nature … Continue reading >Tiny Ecology Project Write Up

Posted January 15, 2025: I am pleased to note that I am teaching a course on Nature Memoirs this spring at Fordham University. This course brings together a lot of … Continue reading >Nature Memoir Course

Posted September 15, 2024: Just a brief update regarding a poetry series I am working on. “The Trees of Inwood Hill Park” is a chapbook-sized poetry collection focusing on, well, … Continue reading >The Trees of Inwood Hill Park Poetry Series

Posted January 1, 2024: Today I received hardcopies of Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities in the mail—It’s nice to hold the material realization of one’s labors in one’s hands! As I note … Continue reading >Hardcopies of Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities Available

Posted November 2, 2023: My peer-reviewed article “America’s Intracoastal Waterway: Understanding the nation through narratives about infrastructure” has just been published in the very cool, water-focused journal Shima. I’m very pleased … Continue reading >My Journal Article on America’s Intracoastal Waterway Published

Posted October 17, 2023: I am happy to announce that my chapter “Will plastic make life impossible?: Transpacific Poets Confront Ocean Plastic” has just been published in the The Routledge … Continue reading >Chapter Published in The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics

Posted October 2, 2023: As noted in my previous post, the edited volume I have been working on, Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities, has been published! See more HERE. Below … Continue reading >The Dangers of Infrastructure Byproducts and What We Can Learn From Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead”

Posted October 2, 2023: Huge news! The edited collection that I have been working on for the past year has been published! I served as lead editor on this project … Continue reading >Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities, Published!

Posted August 21, 2023: Exciting news! My poems “The Changeling of Chaplin, CT” and “Invasive Species” have been published in the most recent issue of Supernatural Studies. I have been a … Continue reading >Poem Publications: “The Changeling of Chaplin, CT” & “Invasive Species”

Posted May 18, 2023: Today at 4 pm at the at the Postcolonial Infrastructures Conference I will be presenting the paper “‘Through sameness of language is produced/ sameness of sentiment … Continue reading >Language as Infrastructure in Myung Mi Kim’s ‘Penury’ (Conference Paper)

Posted April 11, 2023: I am pleased to be teaching the course Poetry of the Ocean: Liquefying the Humanities at the University of Konstanz this summer (2023). This course is available … Continue reading >Poetry of the Ocean: Course Description and Reading List

Posted August 20, 2022: People have been contacting me lately about my course descriptions and reading lists for two advanced literature courses that I taught in the Fall and Spring … Continue reading >“Future Environments” & “Interspecies Friendship”: Course Descriptions and Reading Lists

Posted August 20, 2022: I was selected to receive an AXO teaching award for my teaching at Fordham University. These awards are “designed to recognize outstanding teaching that combats racism … Continue reading >AXO Teaching Award for Promoting Social Justice

Posted August 1, 2022: For my contact info at the University of Konstanz, please check out the following link.

Posted June 1, 2022: Exciting news! I have accepted a Postdoctoral Researcher position at the University of Konstanz in Germany. In my role as a postdoc I will be working with … Continue reading >I am now a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Konstanz

Posted March 28, 2022: My article “Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” has been published in a special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und … Continue reading >My Article “Surfacing Ecological Disaster” Has Been Published

Posted November 8, 2021: On Monday, October 18, 2021 I had the particular pleasure of speaking with Fordham Professor Keri Walsh’s “Modern Irish Literature” course on the topic of “What … Continue reading >What is Ocean Studies?, A Special Event

Posted October 11, 2021: Some people have expressed interest in my “Interspecies Friendship” class. This is an Advanced Literature Class that I’m teaching this fall (2021) at Fordham University. The … Continue reading >Reading List for Interspecies Friendship Course

Posted September 15, 2021: I am quite pleased that my interview with Brendan and Matt, hosts of the podcast “Unchefed,” is available below and at https://www.unchefed.com/episodes/plastics-are-anti-archives-with-dr-aaron-pinnix. In this interview I … Continue reading >My Interview on Unchefed, “Plastics are Anti-archives,” is Available!

Posted July 8, 2021: My presentation “Poisoned Islands in the Poetry of Haunani-Kay Trask and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner” has been accepted for inclusion in the 2021 Association for the Study of … Continue reading >ASLE Presentation: Poisoned Islands in the Poetry of Haunani-Kay Trask and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner

Posted June 23, 2021: My presentation “Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” has been accepted for inclusion in the 2021 Association for the … Continue reading >ASLE Presentation: Surfacing Ecological Disaster

Posted March 4, 2021: I’m excited to be teaching an English elective titled “Interspecies Friendship” in the fall at Fordham University.  I’ve included a course description and brief introduction, below.  … Continue reading >Interspecies Friendship

Posted January 30, 2021: I’m happy to report that I was a guest today on the podcast “Unchefed. ” I spoke with hosts Brendan Costello and Matt Carden on the … Continue reading >Guest on the Podcast “Unchefed”

Posted January 2, 2021: I have posted below the abstract for an article I am currently working on for an edited collection, hopefully to be published as part of the … Continue reading >Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Posted October 22, 2020: In the spring I’ll be teaching two sections of my course “Briny Exchanges.” This course is made especially for advanced students of Fordham’s Gabelli School of … Continue reading >Briny Exchanges: Literature, Commerce, and the Sea

Posted August 22, 2020: I am very excited to be teaching two new courses at Fordham University this fall — the 3000 level course “Journeying and Storytelling” and the 1000 … Continue reading >Fall 2020 Courses: “Journeying and Storytelling” and “Food & Food Horror”

Posted July 9, 2020: I believe that now is a rewarding time to revisit and reconsider historical periods of social change. In addition to my previous post about “The Long … Continue reading >Caribbean Revolts and Revolutions

Posted June 24, 2020: Though it is often overshadowed by the earlier 1965 Watts riots and the 1968 riots, “The Long Hot Summer of 1967” has many similarities with today’s … Continue reading >The Long Hot Summer of 1967

Posted June 23, 2020: I am excited to be teaching the online course “Ocean Life,” a writing intensive literature course that explores how depictions of ocean life reveal surprising insights … Continue reading >Ocean Life, Online Summer Course

Posted May 1, 2020: Having successfully defended my dissertation, “Subaqueous Poetics: Oceanic Depths in Modern and Contemporary Poetry,” on April 22, I am happy to announce that I am now … Continue reading >PhD Completed

Posted February 10, 2020: My review of Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition: A Somewhat Cheeky but Exceedingly Useful Introduction to Academic Writing (Broadview Press, 2019) has … Continue reading >My Book Review of “The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition” Has Been Published

Posted January 27, 2020: UPDATE: Unfortunately, this panel, and the conference more broadly, have been cancelled due to COVID.  Join us on Thursday April 16, 2020 from 3 to 4:30 … Continue reading >Come See My Presentation at 2020 Popular Culture Association National Conference

Posted November 26, 2019: My article “Sargassum in the Black Atlantic: Entanglement and the abyss in Bearden, Walcott, and Philip” has been awarded the 2019 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay … Continue reading >“Sargassum in the Black Atlantic” Selected as 2019 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay Award

Posted October 23, 2019: UPDATE: This panel, and the conference more broadly, have been cancelled due to COVID. I am excited to announce that my presentation has been accepted for … Continue reading >Lodge 49 and the Pleasures of Profitless Expenditure

Posted October 7, 2019: As co-editor of EP and Rhētorikós, I’m happy to announce that EP joins Rhētorikós in having a digital home!  EP and Rhētorikós publish the strongest examples of first-year … Continue reading >Websites Live for Fordham’s Two Journals of First-Year Writing

Posted August 15, 2019: “We interrupt to bring this to you…” My article “Night of the Living Dead Dissects the News: Race, the 1967 Riots, and ‘Dead Neighbors’” has been … Continue reading >My Article “Night of the Living Dead Dissects the News” Accepted for Publication

Posted June 15, 2019: My discussion of Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Anemone” has been posted to the excellent website Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive. I discuss Rukeyser’s poem in relation to the … Continue reading >Learning to Breathe Underwater – The Tidalectics of Rukeyser’s “Anemone”

Posted June 12, 2019: My poem “Migrant: A Triptych,” which received the Suzanna Cohen Legacy Foundation Prize  has been published in vol. 1 of (un)common sense, with a special focus … Continue reading >“Migrant: A Triptych” Publication

Posted May 15, 2019: It is my great pleasure to announce that I have been selected as a Fordham Alumni Dissertation Fellow!  This prestigious fellowship means I will have a … Continue reading >Alumni Dissertation Fellowship