Yanoula Athanassakis (NYU), “Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies”

Yanoula Athanassakis is Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Co-founder of the NYU Environmental Humanities Series at New York University, and Instructor in English and Environmental Studies. Her research and teaching interests include American literature, the environmental humanities, animal studies, food studies, race and ethnic studies, gender studies, globalization, and environmental justice. Athanassakis’ book (2017), Environmental Justice in Contemporary U.S. Narratives is part of Routledge’s Environmental Humanities series. She teaches courses on US literature, veganism, environmental justice, and animal studies.