Rate My Professor Sarah Dimick

Dimick's first book, Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia University Press, 2024), argues that climate knowledge is constructed, conveyed, and amplified through literature; it was short-listed for the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present Book Prize. Key publications include 'The Poetry of Climatic Witness: Slam Poets at United Nations Climate Summits' (Contemporary Literature, 2022), 'Cleaning Women: Occupational Health and Broken Solidarities' (Post45: Contemporaries, 2024), 'Guerrilla Gardening: At the Intersection of Birnam Wood and Minneapolis' (Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2023), 'Seasonal Processions' in The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (2022), and 'Frontiers of a Shrinking World: Recent Climate Fiction' in Climate and American Literature (2021). She serves as co-editor for the Under the Sign of Nature book series in environmental humanities from the University of Virginia Press, Vice President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, and a member of the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum at the Modern Language Association. Her work has been featured on CBS Evening News, Boston Public Radio, Chicago Public Radio, The Hindu, Times of India, and Grist, highlighting her influence in environmental literature and media.