Jill Gatlin teaches literature, cultural studies, environmental studies, and integrative arts courses in the Liberal Arts department at New England Conservatory. She is completing a manuscript titled Reading Toxicity: Hierarchical Hazard, Reception Justice, and Narrative Form in American Literature and Beyond.
Her recent articles include “Climate Justice Pedagogy: Proximity and Empathy in Contexts of Privilege” (Resilience), “Toxic Sublimity and the Crisis of Human Perception: Rethinking Aesthetic, Documentary, and Political Appeals in Contemporary Wasteland Photography” (ISLE), and “Disturbing Aesthetics: Industrial Pollution, Moral Discourse, and Narrative Form in Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills’” (Nineteenth-Century Literature).
She has contributed teaching materials to digital archives including The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators, 100 Views of Climate Change, and Curriculum for the Bioregion.