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Nathaniel Otjen

Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Environmental Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 2024

Contact Information

  • Phone: 201-684-7623
  • Email: notjen@ramapo.edu
  • Office: G-259
  • Office Hours: T 12:00-1:30PM: F 1:30-3:30PM

Education:

Ph.D., Environmental Sciences, Studies and Policy with an advanced certificate in the Graduate Teaching Initiative, University of Oregon, 2022

M.A., English, University of Oregon, 2018

B.A., English (Honors, Creative Writing Track with Nonfiction Emphasis) and Anthropology (Honors) with High Distinction, University of Iowa, 2016

Courses Offered:

  • World Sustainability
  • Environmental History
  • Ecological Literacy
  • Energy and Society
  • Honors: Values and Ethics
  • Pre-Capstone and Capstone (SUST/ENST)

Teaching and Research Interests:

Environmental humanities; multispecies and environmental justice studies; multispecies ethnography; narrative theory, critical animal studies; energy humanities; autobiography studies; feminist science studies

I work across the environmental humanities and cultural anthropology, specializing in multispecies justice theory, critical animal studies, energy humanities, and literary and cultural studies. In the broadest sense, I study how scientific, technological, and cultural narratives limit or open up possibilities for pursuing justice among humans and nonhumans.

My first book, Multispecies Selves: Narratives of Justice with Nonhumans (University of Virginia Press, forthcoming) asks how contemporary life narratives reorganize selfhood around nonhuman beings in ways that may be productive for multispecies justice. I have also co-directed the project that examines how domestic lithium mining is unequally experienced by vulnerable communities and ecologies. More recently, I have begun an ethnographic and public-facing research project called 鈥淢ultispecies Justice on the Shore鈥 which looks at how different groups understand and respond to recent whale strandings along the New Jersey Shore, especially how they view humpback and North Atlantic right whale deaths as connected to offshore wind development.

Before coming to 69色情视频, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Environmental Teaching Fellow at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. You can read more about my academic history on .

Recent Publications:

Special Issue:

    1. Co-editor with Danielle Celermajer, 鈥淢ultispecies Justice and Narrative,鈥 the minnesota review, no. 103. https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesota-review/search-results?fl_TocHeadingTitle=Special+Focus%3a+Multispecies+Justice+and+Narrative

Articles:

    1. Second author, with Kyle Keeler. 鈥,鈥 Geoforum. First online on 10 April 2026.
    1. 鈥,鈥 Public Humanities (special issue on 鈥淟iterature and Science in the Public Sphere鈥). First online on 6 March 2026.
    1. With Danielle Celermajer, 鈥淚ntroduction: Narrative and Multispecies Justice,鈥 Multispecies Justice and Narrative special issue, the minnesota review, no. 103. https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesota-review/article-abstract/2024/103/50/393350/IntroductionNarrative-and-Multispecies-Justice
    1. Environmental Humanities, vol. 16, no. 2, 309-30.
    1. 鈥淓conomies of Extinction: Animals, Labour, and Inheritance in the Longleaf Pine Forests of the U.S. South,鈥 Animal Studies Journal (special issue on 鈥淐ritical Animal Studies in an Age of Extinction鈥), vol. 12, no. 2, 14-40.
    1. a|b: Auto|Biography Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 355-83.
  • Winner of the 2023 Schachterle Essay Prize from the Society for the Study of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
    1. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28, no. 2, 436-61.
    1. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, vol. 8, no. 2, 88-102.
    1. Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Technology, and Culture, vol. 28, no. 3, 285-307.
    1. Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 43, no. 2, 118-33.
    1. Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3- 4, 135-57.
    1. Otherness: Essays and Studies (special issue on 鈥淥therness and the Urban鈥), vol. 7, no. 1, 169-93.
    1. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 9, no. 1, 45-53.
    1. The Annals of Iowa, vol. 76, no. 4, 406-32.
  • Winner of the Mildred Throne – Charles Aldrich Academic History Award.

Book Chapters:

Forthcoming. 鈥淢ultispecies Justice on the Shore: When Whales and Offshore Wind Collide,鈥 Oxford Handbook of Multispecies Justice, edited by Danielle Celermajer, Claire Jean Kim, David Schlosberg, and Christine Winter.

Forthcoming. With Jessica Ng and Juan Manuel Rubio, 鈥淩emapping Petrified Ontologies: From Mineral Resources to Multispecies Relations,鈥 becoming鈥擣luid, Objet-a Creative Studio.

Forthcoming. First author, then Juan Manuel Rubio, 鈥淩enewable Energy in the College Classroom: Lessons in Experiential Learning,鈥 Teaching Energy Humanities, edited by Jason Molesky and Debra Rosenthal, Modern Language Association (MLA).

    1. 鈥淭eaching Multispecies Relationships: Nonhumans and Knowledge Production in Science Writing,鈥 , edited by Lisa Ottum, Allison Dushane, and Ros Powell, Modern Language Association (MLA).
    1. Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis, edited by Matthias Stephan and Sune Borkfelt, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, 179-199.

Media Coverage:

鈥,鈥 Dystopia Now, July 11, 2025

鈥,鈥 EcoCast, April 4, 2025

鈥,鈥 Edge Effects, March 27, 2025

Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins, WFAE 90.7, Charlotte, North Carolina, August 28, 2024.

Edge Effects, April 16, 2024.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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