ARCHIVO RESEARCH NETWORK | Visiting Researcher 2023
SPRING ULMER
Middlebury College, Vermont, USA
↘ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Spring Ulmer is the author of Benjamin’s Spectacles, The Age of Virtual Reproduction, and Bestiality of the Involved. She is a recent recipient of a NEA in Translation and the winner of the 2016 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her scholarship has appeared in the following anthologies: Post-racial America?: An Interdisciplinary Study; Comparative Feminism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism: Gender and Sexual Identity in Contemporary Turkish Literature and Culture, and Photography and Cinema, 50 Years of La Jetée. She teaches in the English Department at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. She has also worked as a journalist and photojournalist, taught writing and photography workshops at the University of Technology and Management in Lahore, Pakistan, and with migrant children, juvenile detainees, homeless youth, and refugees.
Research Interests
Black Anthropocenes (racial capital and extractivism, ecocide, decolonial theory, and the document
Recent work & publications
Forthcoming: “Congolese Anthropocenes, Wounds of Extraction, Arts of Resistance: Transcultural Materialism in Fiston Mujila’s Tram 83 and Sammy Baloji’s The Beautiful Time” in Storying the Ecocatastrophe: The Aesthetics and Politics of Ecological Narratives edited by Helena Duffy and Katarina Lepännen and due out with Manchester University Press.
September 2022 “Monument Avenue, Virginia, Summer 2020.” Poetry Magazine. On Monuments, Vol. 220, No. 5.
Summer 2022 “Starshine in April Freely’s ‘After Vermont: My Hipster Hunter’s Cap.” The Georgia Review.
September 30, 2022Generation Alpha short film selected for inclusion in Breaking the Frame: Resisting Technology in the Digital Age—CRASSH Outdoor Film Festival. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
June 15-18, 2022 “Coexistentialism in Ming-Yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes, Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, & Ji’s The Membranes.” Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association Conference as part of the “Fragile Ecologies and Discontinuous Modernities” panel. Taipei, Taiwan (ONLINE).
Oct 20, 2021 “Interstices of Change: Artistic Production in the Face of Black Anthropocenes.” Paper delivered at the Nordic Summer University’s Culture and the Impending Ecocatastrophe: Narratives of Ecology and Sustainable Futures conference. University of Turku, Finland (ONLINE).
September 2020Triquarterly, guest video essay editor for a special edition to select and curate Black video essayists work for the 160th issue of the magazine.
March 2019 “Human Subjects and “Green” Protest in Black African Photography at the Ninth Rencontres de Bamako” in Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 5.1 March 2019 (Environment: From a Humanities Perspective).
Oct 17-19, 2019 “Returning the Gaze: Contemporary Black African Photographic Self-Portraiture.” Paper delivered at the Black Portraiture[s] V Conference: Memory and the Archive Past. Present. Future. New York, NY.
2017 “Steel Trees.” Video essay. TriQuarterly 152.
