Elizabeth DeLoughrey is a professor in the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment at the University of California Los Angeles on the unceded territories of the Gabrielino Tongva. She completed her PhD as a visiting Fulbright scholar at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa. She has been the recipient of fellowships from organizations such as the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and the Rachel Carson Centre.
Elizabeth is the author of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Literatures (University of Hawai`i Press, 2007), and Allegories of the Anthropocene (Duke University Press, 2019), an open-access text that examines climate change, the oceanic imaginary, and empire in the literary and visual arts. She is co-editor of the volumes “Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture” (Virginia University Press, 2005); “Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment” (Oxford University Press, 2011); and “Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches” (Routledge, 2015); and of numerous journal issues on critical ocean and island studies.