Sarah Fisher Davis: "Crafting Narratives of Long Island Water"

A Zoom Public Humanities Fellowship Lecture by Sarah Fisher Davis, PhD Candidate in English, "Crafting Narratives of Long Island Water".
Because Long Island relies entirely on a sole source, non-renewable aquifer system for its water, the preservation of that system - as well as the surrounding sounds and ocean - is vital to both human and environmental health. This talk will discuss the ways in which Stony Brook EGL 309 students and local high schoolers participated in a public humanities project as local water activists and citizen science storytellers. It will also outline how the original project evolved after the COVID-19 pandemic forced a different kind of learning and how the project plans to create future opportunities for ecological engagement.
Sarah Fisher Davis is a PhD candidate in English at Stony Brook University. Her research interests include contemporary American & Anglophone literature, film, and graphic narratives with a focus on environmental justice and gender studies. She is currently working on her dissertation tentatively entitled, “Detection: U.S. Land, Body, and Text as Sites of Nuclearity," which examines 20th & 21st century representations of nuclear radiation and its lingering corporeal & ecological threats through a variety of media and multi-modal forms.
Recorded on May 4, 2021