Elizabeth Deloughrey
Professor @ UCLA,Department of English, Institute for the Environment and Sustainability
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, a UCLA professor in English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, specializes in postcolonial and Indigenous literature.
Her courses cover topics like the environment, globalization, critical ocean studies, and the Anthropocene, focusing on the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. DeLoughrey authored “Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Literatures” (2007) and “Allegories of the Anthropocene” (2019), delving into climate change and empire in the arts.
She co-edited volumes on Caribbean literature, postcolonial ecologies, and global ecologies. DeLoughrey’s impactful scholarship has garnered support from prestigious institutions worldwide, including a recent John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2021-22).
