Kirk Sides

Kirk Sides is an assistant professor in English and an affiliate professor of African cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A specialist in African environmental literatures and humanities, his current book manuscript, Environmental Entanglements: African Literature’s Ecological Imaginary, charts a long history of ecological thinking in African literatures from the start of twentieth century up to the present. He also facilitates a series of workshops called “Anthropocene Storytelling,” which employ speculative fiction and poetry as pedagogical and creative methods for thinking about planetary change. Kirk has been a visiting research scholar in the Humanities Institute at The Pennsylvania State University, as well as a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.