#  Writing the Climate Crisis: Emily Raboteau in Conversation with Sarah Dimick 

 



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 **December 7, 2021** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Zoom Webinar**  



 

 



 

##  [THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM](https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/environment-forum)

##  SPEAKER: EMILY RABOTEAU, CUNY

 **Registration information coming soon.**

###  About the Speakers

 **[Emily Raboteau](https://www.emilyraboteau.com/)** is a novelist, essayist, memoirst, and street photographer whose work is at the intersection of race, environmental justice, parenthood and social change. Her last book, [Searching for Zion](https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780802122278) won an American Book Award. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a contributing editor at Orion Magazine, her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, New York Magazine, Best American Travel Essays, Best American Science Essays, and elsewhere. Since the publication of the 2018 IPCC report, most of her writing concerns the climate crisis. Her next book, Caution: Lessons in Survival will be published by Holt. A professor of creative writing at the City College of New York, she lives with her family in the Bronx.

 **[Sarah Dimick](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-dimick)** is a literary scholar working in the environmental humanities. Her research, based in global Anglophone literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, focuses on literary portrayals of climate change and environmental justice. Her scholarship appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Mosaic, Edge Effects, and other venues. She is an assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of English and a faculty associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

###  About the Series

 [The Environment Forum](https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/environment-forum) at the Mahindra Center is convened by [Robin Kelsey](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/robin-kelsey), Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University and [Sarah Dimick](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-dimick), Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University.



 

 



 

 

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