Dr. Kelly Bushnell is an environmental humanities scholar specializing in oceanic literature, history, and culture. She holds a BA from the University of California, San Diego, an MA from Mills College, and a PhD from the University of London (Royal Holloway). She has taught at the University of London and the University of West Florida. Her research on oceanic poetics and ecofeminism has been published in the Oxford Bibliography of Victorian Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, and multiple edited collections. She is an avid waterwoman and balances archival work with fieldwork as often as possible, including as humanities scholar-in-residence on the all-women Sedna Epic Expedition Team which dived and snorkeled in the Canadian High Arctic and Greenland in summer 2018. At the Rachel Carson Center she will work on Out Land with her writing partner, Inuit traditional knowledge keeper Johnny Issaluk. You can visit her online at kellypbushnell.com