Aqueous Borders: Colonizing Water in the 21st Century

Ginett Pineda is an assistant teaching professor of Spanish at Penn State University, Fayette, The Eberly Campus. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and an Indigenous Studies Certificate from The University of Kansas. Her current research interests focus on Andean Culture, Quechua language, and indigenous epistemologies on the “Mother Earth,” particularly Andeans’ affective relationship to native landscapes and nature.

Beebee’s fields of specialization include criticism and theory, epistolarity, eighteenth-century literature, translation (theory, practice, and literary mimesis), mental maps in literature, and law and literature. Publications include Clarissa on the Continent (Penn State Press 1991), The Ideology Of Genre (Penn State Press 1994), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (Cambridge UP 1999), Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492 – 2002 (2008); Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction (Purdue UP 2008).

Jessica Klimoff is a PhD candidate in the English department at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on post-1945 American literature and the environmental humanities. She is especially interested in how climate change disrupts public narratives’ construction of the past, present, and future. In addition to her work as a graduate student and teacher, she has worked on Penn State’s “Redesigning Modernities” project to develop online educational resources and syllabi to help build classroom conversations about a global, unequal modernity, especially as it relates to environmental change.