Sarah Fisher Davis is a PhD candidate in English at Stony Brook University. Her research interests include contemporary American & Anglophone literature, film, and graphic narratives with a focus on environmental justice and gender studies. She is currently working on her dissertation tentatively entitled, “Detection: U.S. Land, Body, and Text as Sites of Nuclearity,” which examines representations of nuclear radiation and its lingering corporeal & ecological threats in the United States through a variety of media and multimodal forms. In partnership with several New York State Master Teachers and local environmental organizations, Sarah’s public humanities project – “Mapping the Story of Long Island’s Aquifer System” – engages college & high school students as community water activists and citizen scientist-narrators using ArcGIS software and digital story mapping.
