In Extraction Ecologies (Princeton University Press, November 2021), English professor Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature created during the rise of large-scale mining in the British imperial world from 1830 to 1930 reflected and commented upon a world where humans became dependent on finite, nonrenewable resources.

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is Professor of English and Interim Chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. She joined the UC Davis English department in 2008 and served as Chair of English from 2013-2016. Before coming to Davis, she taught at Ohio University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oklahoma. Her scholarly interests include nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literature of Britain and the British Empire, ecocriticism and environmental studies, gender studies, and media studies. Her latest book titled Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion appeared with Princeton University Press in October 2021.

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