Caroline Abbott

Education:

Masters by Research (M.Res), English Literature, University of Glasgow, 2019.

Professional Roles:

Editor. The Otter / La Loutre. Network in Canadian History and Environment. 2021 — Present.

Book Chapters:

Forthcoming. ““Hunter. Scholar. Gentleman:” On Colonial Masculinities in Borderlands 2’s “Sir Hammerlock,” the Adventure Novel, and the Queer Extractivisms of an Alien Planet.’” Caroline Abbott and Isabelle Gapp. Victorians and Videogames. Ed. Brooke Cameron and Lin Young. Routledge.

Forthcoming. “No Right on This Side of the Line:” The Racialisation of C. Latrans Range Expansion in New England Print Media and the Return of the Folk Villain at the Backyard Border (1865 – 1910). Caroline Abbott. Backyard Natures. Ed. Brian Payne (et al).

Journal Articles:

Abbott, Caroline. “Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History (Autumn 2023), no. 19. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/axes-ground-wolves-and-women-north-american-frontier. ISSN 2199-3408.

Book Reviews:

Caroline Abbott. Review of Johnson, Robert M.; Gilman, Sharon L.; Abel, Daniel C.; Pullen, Elise, Tooth and Claw: Top Predators of the World. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. Ed. Daniella McCahey. 3 May, 2024. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=59961.

MANUSCRIPTS In preparation:

“The Moth Effect: On the Trail of Lord Walsingham’s 1871—1872 Expedition and an Ecological Animal History.”

Institutes & Workshops:

Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) 2023, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 23—25, 2023. “The Coyotes of Crowell Road”.

Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) 2022, University of Maine Hutchinson Center, Belfast, Maine, June 24—26, 2022. ““A Westerner Can’t Come East and Live With Any Comfort”: Nationalist Mythologies of C. Latrans Range Expansion, Indigenous Hatred, and the Rise of the Coyote as Folk Villain in The New York Times 1865–1910.”

Summer Institute on Non/Humanity, Bucknell University Humanities Center, Bucknell University. June 6 — 17, 2022. “But Being a Woman Facing the Most Desperate Odds”: Wolf Killing, Gender Heroism, and Canadian Mythologies in American Print Media 1880-1910.”

ConferenceS:

VII. Forthcoming. “The She-Bear Wailed As If Mourning”: Dogs, Polar Bears and Gendered Trauma in the Compositions of Nansen’s Farthest North.” World Congress of Environmental History. Panel: Visual Cultures of Arctic Extraction. University of Oulu, Finland. August 2024.

VI. “Animal Encounters in the Archive.“ American Society for Environmental History 2024. Roundtable. Denver, Colorado, United States. April 2024. (Co-organiser; Roundtable Member).

V. “‘No Right on This Side of the Line:’ Tracking the Geographic Queerness of C. latrans in American Print Media 1880—1915.” American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) 2023: Session 9-K: "Tracing Animals in Time and Space." 25 March 2023.

IV. ““A Westerner Can’t Come East and Live With Any Comfort”: Nationalist Mythologies of C. Latrans Range Expansion, Indigenous Hatred, and the Rise of the Coyote as Folk Villain in The New York Times 1865–1910.” Animal History Group (AHG), Summer Conference 2022, Movement, July 25—26 2022.

III. “But Being a Woman Facing the Most Desperate Odds”: Wolf Killing, Gender Heroism, and Canadian Mythologies in American Print Media 1880-1910. May 2022. Congress 2022; Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC).

II. “The Purity of an Untarnishable World”: the ‘Periodical’ Exportation of Masculinity and the Gendering of Canada’s Northern Frontier.” June 2021. Congress 2021; Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC).

I. “Wild Maelstroms and Unimportant Rapids: Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston’s Frontier Masculinity on the Waters of the Chilkoot Pass and the Framing of the Biosensational in the American Periodical Press”. June 2021. Canadian Nautical Research Society (CNRS) Annual Conference.

GIS Projects:

Director. The Animal Narrative, Identity, and Microhistory Archival Atlas (ANIMA). Beta launched 5 April 2024 (ASEH).

EditED SERIES:

Forthcoming. Animal Encounters. A NiCHE | ANIMA Collaboration. The Otter / La Loutre. Coedited with Prof. Heather Green. May — June 2024.

Ghost Light: Folkloric NonHumanity on the Environmental Stage. A NiCHE Series. The Otter / La Loutre. 26 September - 14 November 2023.

Ghost Light II: Monstrosities. A NiCHE Series. The Otter / La Loutre. 26 September - 9 November 2022.

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP:

XIII. Forthcoming. “The Oxen’s Covenant.” 9 May 2024. Edge Effects Magazine. Troubling Time Series. University of Wisconsin Madison. Ed. Rudy Molinek.

XII. “The Ecology of Fear: or, the Plastic Prometheus (Concluding Ghost Light II: Monstrosities).” 14 November 2023. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Ghost Light II Series. Ed. Caroline Abbott.

XI. “On Monsters as Marionette: An Introduction to Ghost Light II.” 26 September 2023. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Ghost Light II Series. Ed. Caroline Abbott.

X. “My Mother is Part Cow”. 29 June 2023. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Emotional Ecologies Series. Ed. Jessica M. DeWitt and Sarah E. York-Bertram.

IX. “We Turned Our Eyes Away”: A Visual History of Nansen’s Dogs. 19 January 2023. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Series, Part II. A NiCHE and Jackman Humanities Institute (University of Toronto) Working Group. Ed. Isabelle Gapp; Mark Cheetham.

VIII. “House Lights, On! Editorial Reflections on the ‘Ghost Light’ Series.” Caroline Abbott. 9 November 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Ghost Light Series, ed. Jessica DeWitt.

VII. “Whom and What Do I Touch When I Touch My Vampire?”: A Series Introduction to Ghost Light. 12 October 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Ghost Light Series, ed. Andrew Watson.

VI. “Stuff Stories: A Still Life.” 12 July 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Stuff as Source Series. A NiCHE and Histoire Source | Source Story Collaboration. Ed. Blair Stein.

V. “Glass Ghost: The Queer Cartography of an Unruly Revenant”. 22 June 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Succession II Series; Ed. Jessica DeWitt; Addie Hopes.

IV. “Source Spotlight: A Guide to Navigating 19th Century Periodical “Print Ecologies”. 21 April 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), Ed. Andrew Watson, supporting.

III. "They Come Down From The North”: Tracking the Transnational Mutant Mythologies of the “Coywolf” (C. latrans) Across a New Climatological Frontier”. 23 February 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), Ed. Jessica DeWitt, supporting.

II. “‘The Trouble on Hell Hollow Road: White Ghosts, Maternal Grief, and the Gendered Fragility of American Park Mythology”. 29 June 2021. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Parks and Profit Series; Ed. Jessica DeWitt.

I. “Of COVID Landscapes and Lockdown: Kyriarchy, Unsettling Environmental Prose, and Pandemic as time for Authorial Reflection”. 23 September 2020. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). ResearchCOVID19 Series; Ed. Andrew Watson.

Digital appearances:

III. “NiCHE Conversations 3.4: Folkloric NonHumanity on the Environmental Stage with Caroline Abbott”, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). 31 October 2022. Season 3, Episode 4.

II. “NiCHE Conversations 2.4: White Ghosts and the Transmission of Gendered Whiteness on the Land with Caroline Abbott”, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). 26 October 2021. Season 2, Episode 4.

I. “NiCHE Conversations 1.5: Kyriarchy and the Environmental Humanities with Caroline Abbott”, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). 21 October 2020. Season 1. Episode 5.

Multimedia Projects & VISUAL ART:

Forthcoming. The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) 20th Anniversary Logo and Merchandise Design.

Forthcoming. “The Oxen’s Covenant: Illustrated.” Video Essay in conjunction with corresponding essay. 9 May 2024. Edge Effects Magazine. Troubling Time Series. University of Wisconsin Madison. Ed. Rudy Molinek.

“Dear (Past) New England.” 27 June 2022. European Society for Environmental History (ESEH). Postcards for Unstable Times Series; Ed. Jonatan Palmblad.

Glass Ghost: The Queer Cartography of a Transnational Revenant in conjunction with corresponding essay ”Glass Ghost: The Queer Cartography of an Unruly Revenant”. 22 June 2022. The Otter, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Succession II Series; Ed. Jessica DeWitt & Addie Hopes, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).

Student Journalism

Rector Interview and Analysis: Prof. Jordan B. Peterson, Glasgow Guardian, February 2017.