Joni Adamson is a literary critic specializing in Environmental Justice Critical Studies and Environmental Humanities. She the author of American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place and coeditor of The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. With Scott Slovic (University of Nevada, Reno), she co-edited a Special Issue on Ethnicity and Ecocriticicm that appeared in the summer of 2009 in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Globalization on the Line, The American Quarterly, Teaching North American Environmental Literature, Reading the Earth, Studies in American Indian Literatures and The Tamkang Review. She heads the Environment and Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association and is an Advisory Board Member for Arizona State University's Institute for Humanities Research. In 2003-2005, she was a member of the Federal Facilities Working Group of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, which advises the United States Environmental Protection Agency. She is currently at work on a manuscript titled, "mother/mater/matrix: How the Humanities Power our Fight for the Environment" that examines how literature and film, from Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœurs Letters from an American Farmer to the Wachowski Brothers' Matrix trilogy reimagine community, justice, and eco-global health. She offers courses in Environmental Literature, American Literature, Ethnic American Literatures, and Southwest American Literature.
