Michele Navakas, Associate Professor of English
“A coral-bleaching event is devastating reefs globally.” The Conversation, September 2023.
Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
“Coral, Labor, Slavery, and Silence in the Archives.” Age of Revolutions, Revolutionary Material Cultures Essay Series (April 22, 2019).
“Liquid Landscape: Possession and Floridian Geography.” Early American Literature 47.1 (2012): 89-114.
“A Book Full of Seaweed.” Huntington Frontiers Magazine (Spring / Summer 2018): 9-12.
Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America (Princeton University Press, 2023)
“Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Florida” in Once Upon a Time in Florida (University of Florida Press, 2023)
“Antebellum Coral.“ American Literature 91.2 (2019): 263-293.”
“Emerson Undersea” Essay Co-Authored with Dominic Mastroianni, Oxford Handbook to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2024.
“Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast.” Book review essay of Cameron B. Strang’s Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (UNC Press, 2018). Southern Spaces (May 2019).
“Island Nation: Mapping Florida, Revising America.” Early American Studies 11.2 (2013): 243-271.
“Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Florida.” FORUM Magazine: the Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council (Fall 2019): 42-45.