April Anson

Professor, English

English, American Studies

Dr. April Anson is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut where she works at the intersection of environmental humanities, Indigenous American studies, and political theory. Her research uses literary analysis to trace the historical and ongoing relationship between climate change, white supremacy, and American environmental thought as well as the early Indigenous American environmental justice traditions that eclipse those relations. She is a cofounder of the Anti-Creep Climate Collective, coauthor of Against the Ecofascist Creep, and her work has appeared in boundary 2, Resilience, Environmental History, Western American Literature, and others.  

Prior to joining UConn, Dr. Anson was Assistant Professor of Public Humanities at San Diego State University, where she also served as core faculty with the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs and affiliate faculty with the department of American Indian Studies, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. In all, she remains fiercely committed to anti-racist and anti-colonial knowledge production and social movements.