[[HOME]] | [[RESEARCH]] | [[TEACHING]] | [[DESIGN]] | [[CV]] ![[brittish-museum.jpg]] _Reading the “AR5 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2014” on the steps of the British Museum, May 2016._ (Photo credit: Author) ---- **DAVID STENTIFORD** *Updated: 2024-03-19 #### EDUCATION **2024**, _expected_ • Ph.D., Modern Thought and Literature; Ph.D., Minor, Anthropology, Stanford University **2009** • M.A., English, University of Nevada, Reno Literature and Environment Emphasis **2006** • B.A., Environmental Studies-Literature, Whitman College #### TRAINING, CERTIFICATES, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS **2023** • Oral history training, The Center for Oral History, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA **2022** • Joshua Lederberg Graduate Fellowship in the Science, Technology, and Society Program **2019** • Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Science, Technology, and Society **2018 - 2019** • Joshua Lederberg Graduate Fellowship in the Science, Technology, and Society Program **2015** • Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis Graduate Fellow **2014** • Certificate, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University **2014** • Lane Research Grant, Stanford University **2009** • Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Travel Award **2004** • Whitman College Norman Klockman Award #### TEACHING EXPERIENCE **2021-2022** • _Teaching Assistant_; Stanford University - STS 298: _STS Honors Meeting_ - STS 191W: _Doing STS: Introduction to Research_ - ANTHRO 1: _Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology_ **2020-2021** • _Teaching Assistant_; Stanford University - STS 298: _STS Honors Meeting_ **2019** • _Head Teaching Assistant_; Stanford University - STS 1: _The Public Life of Science and Technology_ **2018** • _Teaching Assistant_; Stanford University - STS 123: _Making of a Nuclear World: History, Politics, and Culture_ - STS 200A: _Food and Society: Politics, Culture and Technology_ _Head Teaching Assistant_; Stanford University - STS 1: _The Public Life of Science and Technology_ **2017** • _Writing Tutor_; Office of Accessible Education, Stanford University **2016** • _Teaching Assistant_; Stanford University - STS 1: _The Public Life of Science and Technology_ **2015** • _Writing Tutor_; Office of Accessible Education, Stanford University **2014** • _Instructor_; Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, - PWR 1GDS: _Writing and Rhetoric 1: From Trash Talk to Toxic Discourse: Rhetorics of Waste_ (winter and spring quarters) **2013** • _Teaching Assistant_; Stanford University - English 162: _Critical Methods_ **2013-2014** _Writing Tutor_; Office of Accessible Education, Stanford University **2010-2012** • _Instructor_; University of Nevada, Reno - English 098: _Preparatory Composition_ - English 100-I: _Composition Intensive_ - English 102-Honors: _Composition II:_ “Visual Culture” - English 105: _Critical Reading_ - English 106: _Editing for Style_ **2009-2010** _Fulbright English Teaching Assistant_; University of Colombo, Sri Lanka _Teaching Roles_: - Conducted writing workshops - Lectured in various literature courses **2007-2009** _Teaching Assistant_; University of Nevada, Reno _Courses Taught_ - English 101: _Composition I_ - English 102: _Composition II:_ “California: Place and Imagination” - Core Humanities 201: _Ancient and Medieval Cultures_ - Core Humanities 202: _The Modern World_ #### PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS "Broken Light: Urbanization, Waste, and Violence in Lewis Baltz's Nevada Portfolios." _Space and Culture_. 17.4 (2014): 346-355. Print. [LINK](https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1206331214543866) #### PUBLICATIONS “Maintaining Identities in the New West,” _High Desert Journal_. 2013: 16. Print. [LINK](https://issuu.com/highdesertjournal/docs/issuu__16) “Irrigating the Desert.” _Edible Reno-Tahoe_. Spring 2012. Print. [LINK](https://ediblerenotahoe.com/editions/spring-2012/spring-2012-irrigating-desert/) “What is Environmental Architecture?” _Metropolis Magazine Blog: Point of View_. 6 Oct. 2011. Web. [LINK](https://www.metropolismag.com/uncategorized/what-is-environmental-architecture/) “Environmental Futures.” _Metropolis Magazine Blog: Point of View_. 3 Oct. 2011. Web. [LINK](https://www.metropolismag.com/uncategorized/environmental-futures/) “Q&A: William L. Fox.” _Metropolis Magazine Blog: Point of View_. 2011. 30 Sep. Web. [LINK](https://www.metropolismag.com/uncategorized/qa-william-l-fox/) “Place in Relation: Landscape, Legacy, and the Nevada Museum of Art.” _High Desert Journal_. 2009: 4.1. Print. [LINK](https://issuu.com/highdesertjournal/docs/hdj__9_issuu) “The Mysteries of Skookumchuck.” _American Whitewater_. July-Aug. 2006: 18. Print. #### REVIEWS Rev. of _Blue Legalities: The Life & Laws of the Sea_ Edited by Irus Braverman and Elizabeth R. Johnson. _Environment and Society_, 13(1), 191-193. 01 September 2022. Print. [LINK](https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.3167/ares.2022.130111) Rev. of _From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design_. By Peder Anker. _Center for Art + Environment Blog_. Nevada Museum of Art, 29 March 2012. Web. Rev. of _The Ethics of Earth Art_, by Amanda Boetzkes. _Center for Art + Environment Blog_. Nevada Museum of Art, 12 Oct. 2011. Web. Rev. of _Reframing the New Topographics_, edited by Greg Foster-Rice and John Rohrbach. _Center for Art + Environment Blog_. Nevada Museum of Art, 8 Sep. 2011. Web. Rev. of _Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert_, by Michon Mackedon. _Precipitate_ (now _Newfound_). 2.1. Web. [LINK](https://newfound.org/archives/volume-2/issue-1/review-stentiford/) Rev. of _Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas_, by Sarah Phillips Casteel. _ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment_. 16.2. Print. [LINK](https://academic.oup.com/isle/article/16/2/381/741173/Second-Arrivals-Landscape-and-Belonging-in) #### LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION “How Kelp Works: The Social Life of Underwater Forests,” Kelp Kulture; University of California, Los Angeles. 02 March 2023. (Invited) "Ocean as Plantation," Literatures of Planetary Thresholds, Materia workshop, Stanford University, Stanford CA. 17 November 2022. “War, Peace, and Giant Kelp: Why Two California Cold War Missile Engineers Tried to Farm Kelp Offshore in 1970s” California State University Seaweed Symposium, Estuary & Ocean Science Center, Tiburon, CA. 08 October 2022. “The Toilet on Spaceship Earth: Ocean Farms, Closed Ecological Systems, and the Dream of Bioregeneration.” Stanford–Leuphana Summer Academy 2022, Berlin. 20-24 June 2022. "Algae Pastures: Art and the Domestication of the Sea." Sea Economies: Labour, Infrastructure and New Techno-Environmental Horizons Panel; European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference, Lisbon Portugal/Online. 20-24 July 2020. “The Open Ecologies of Kelp: The Ocean Food and Energy Farm Project, 1974 to 1977.” Controlling Plants, Growing Environments Panel; Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, New Orleans. 4-7 September 2019. Discussant. “Central Comparative Field': Geology and Capital in the Late Nineteenth Century American Coal Industry” by Branden Adams. An Environmental Humanities Dissertation Workshop. 26 October 2017. “Toward a Theory of (Exo)Habitation: A Problem of Ecological Thinking and Engineered Climates.” Ecology in the Particular Panel; Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 6-9 July 2017. Discussant. “From ‘Natural State’ to Wetware: A literary History of American Biohacking” by Rebecca Wilbanks. An Environmental Humanities Dissertation Workshop. 7 March 2017. “Making Climates Present: The Atmospheric Imaginaries of Klaus Schafler and Karolina Sobecka.” Atmospheric Futures Panel; Anthropology, Weather, and Climate Change; British Museum, Clore Centre, London, U.K. 27-29 May 2016. “Post-Anthropogenic Making: (Exo)habiting Atmospheres, Reefs, and Neighborhoods.” Post-Anthropocentrism at Stanford: A State of the Question. Materia Conference. 12 May 2016. (Invited) Discussant. _The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins_ by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Matsutake Worlds Spring 2016 Symposium, Stanford, CA. 29 March 2016. (Invited) “A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing: _Sweetgrass_ and Multispecies Storytelling.” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. June 23-27 2015. “Cultural Geology and Rogue Iron Dust.” Working Group on the Novel Roundtable on “Sciences and Fictions,” Stanford: CA, 3 December 2013. “Afterimages of the War: Timothy H. O’Sullivan and the King Survey, Utah, 1868.” Visual Culture of the West. Western Literature Association’s 48rd Annual Meeting, Berkeley: CA. 9-13 October 2013. Panel Chair. Visual Culture of the West. Western Literature Association’s 48rd Annual Meeting, Berkeley: CA. 9-13 October 2013. Discussant. “‘Earth Knows No Borders’: Denizenship in the Cultural Politics of Environmentalism and Immigration” by Sarah Wald. Interdisciplinary Working Group in Critical Theory. 3 October 2013. Participant. Photography, Cartography, Videography. Chair. Ecocritical Art History Pre-conference Seminar. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. University of Kansas, Lawrence. May 28-26 2013. “Weighing Visible Ecological Associations.” Ecocritical Art History Pre-conference Seminar. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. University of Kansas, Lawrence. May 28-26 2013. “Questions of Subsistence in Punyakante Wijenaike’s _The Waiting Earth._” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. Indiana University Bloomington, IN. June 21-26 2011. Reading. Panel Chair. Perspectives on Postcolonial Ecocriticism. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. Indiana University Bloomington, IN. June 21-26 2011. Respondent. Media and Diversity: International Conference on Mass Media Studies. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 19-20 March 2010. “Seeing the Village Through the Trees: Representing the Village in Sri Lankan Fiction.” South Asia Regional Fulbright Conference. Udaipur, Rajasthan. India. 8-10 March 2010. “‘Other Starvations’: Environmental Justice, Food, and Native American Poetry.” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. Canada. 3-6 June 2009. “Rushing Ice, Frozen Cars: Olafur Eliasson’s Aesthetic of Ecological Responsibility.” Panel: “Material Worlds.” University of Washington Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies. University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 21 May 2009. “Critiquing Emplacement: Domestic Space and Patricia Grace’s _Baby No-Eyes_.” Panel: “Globalizing Ecocriticism.” Northeast Modern Literature Association Annual Conference. Hyatt Regency Hotel, Boston, MA. 26 February-1 March 2009. “Modes of Intimacy: The Aesthetics of William Keith and John Muir.” Western Literature Association’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Boulder: CO. 1-4 October 2008. #### RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2021-2022, Research Assistant; Sanford University Assisted Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin with oral history digital production for _Voices of Black San Francisco Public History Project: Bayview-Hunters Point & Fillmore_ 2021-2022, Research Assistant; Sanford University Assisted Dr. Sharika Thiranagama with digital methods related into archival research 2008 Research Assistant; University of Nevada, Reno Assisted Dr. Michael P. Branch with bibliographical work on cinematic adaptations of nineteenth-century novels #### DEPARTMENTAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE **2020-2022** Graduate Student Coordinator, [Center for Global Ethnography](https://iriss.stanford.edu/ethnography), Stanford University **2020** Invited Speaker, “Coastal Collapse: Why California’s Kelp Forests Are Disappearing,” Hard Earth Speaker Series, Roble Living Laboratory for Sustainability at Stanford, 21 January 2020 **2018** Invited Speaker, “Automation for Accessibility,” Assistive Technology Workshop Series. Stanford Office of Accessible Education, 11 October 2018 **2017** Panelist, Edge Work Class, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University **2016** • Coordinator, First Modern Thought and Literature Winter Workshop **2015-2017** • Communications Officer, Environmental Humanities Project, Stanford University **2015** • Convener, Climate Theory Collective, Stanford University **2013-2014** • President, Environmental Humanities Project, Stanford University **2012-2017** • Coordinator, Environmental Humanities Project, Stanford University **2011** • Co-coordinator, Honors Program Annual Core Writing Research Symposium, University of Nevada, Reno **2010-2011** • Editorial Assistant _ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment_ **2010** • Panelist, Pre-departure Orientation, “Understanding U.S. Academic Expectations” and “Living and studying in the U.S.” Colombo, Sri Lanka. **2010** • Guest Speaker, “Environmental Literature in the Classroom,” Savana International College. Arawwala, Sri Lanka. **2010** • Volunteer author liaison, Galle Literary Festival. Galle, Sri Lanka. **2010** • Composition pedagogy workshop leader, University of Colombo. Colombo, Sri Lanka. **2007-2009** • Editorial Assistant _ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment_ **2007-2009** • Assistant Editor _The Literary Bird Journal: Avian Life, Literary Arts_ **2006-2007** • Assistant Editor _High Desert Journal _ “Wild Art: Celebrating Nature Through the Arts and Humanities,” Whitman College