“I received my Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019, and I am an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College with specialisations in contemporary Anglophone poetry and the environmental humanities with secondary research interests in Pacific literature, atmospheric humanities, and waste studies. My article on smelter pollution and the Aotearoa New Zealand poet Cilla McQueen has appeared in the 2021 issue of the journal Venti. Moreover, I have an essay on plant respirations and the artist John Gerrard forthcoming from SubStance. Additionally, I have a book chapter under review for the MLA volume, Teaching the Literature of Climate Change. As a poet, as well as a scholar, my creative work is extensively grounded within the environmental humanities. My academic manuscript-in-progress, Gaseous Modernity: Bad Air in the Anthropocene, investigates the conceptualisations of the “atmosphere” and “air” through readings of Australasian and American poetry, short stories, and art since the early twentieth century. Put briefly, I argue that anthropogenic and natural air pollution, including smog and volcanic eruptions, symptomise the traffic between multinational industry and local communities. Gaseous Modernity reflects the internationalising impulse of the environmental humanities by foregrounding the Australasian perspectives on human interactions, the more-than-human environment, and the atmosphere as an object of inquiry. My aim here is to theorise Australasian ecocritical thought, which has been previously neglected in Anglo-American environmental discourse.”