Helena Feder is the author of Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture (Routledge, 2014), You Are the River (forthcoming, North Carolina Museum of Art 2021) and Close Reading the Anthropocene (forthcoming, Routledge, 2021). She is Associate Professor of Literature and Environment and Director of Great Books at East Carolina University, and was a Mellon American Council of Learned Societies Scholars & Society Fellow-in-Residence at the North Carolina Museum of Art from 2019-2020.