“For many years I wrote, taught, and published about climate change from a more philosophical, existential point of view, especially thinking about deep time, but I did come back to fuels with my Fuel book in part for the fact that so much of the press and so much of public discourse confuses fuel and energy, and it’s still happening today. I thought about this so long and the same themes, the same tropes are still being recycled.”

Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University.  She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on ...