Imagining Air

Tatiana Konrad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, the principal investigator of “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” and the editor of the “Environment, Health, and Well-being” book series at Michigan State University Press. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Marburg, Germany. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago (2022), a Visiting Researcher at the Forest History Society (2019), an Ebeling Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society (2018), and a Visiting Scholar at the University of South Alabama (2016). She is the author of Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature (2019), the editor of Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste (2023), Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia (2020), and Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis (2020), and a co-editor of Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory (2018).

• Information on ContributorsIntroduction: Toward a Cultural Axiology of Air TATIANA KONRAD, CHANTELLE MITCHELL, and SAVANNAH SCHAUFLERDOI: 10.47788/HWDT3673Part I: Aerial Politics—Pollution, Consumerism, and Catastrophe 1. Fordism in Detroit, Consumerism in Los Angeles: A Brief History of Automobile Emissions Regulation and Lessons for Greenhouse Gas Pollution GORDON M. SAYREDOI: 10.47788/TCVP5497 2. Dirty Air: Literary Tropes of the Canadian Nation CHRISTIAN RIEGELDOI: 10.47788/FRQU2721 3. Witnessing Challenger: Viewing Aerial Space through the Reverberations of Disaster CHANTELLE MITCHELLDOI: 10.47788/OTME3403Part II: Air and Art in Times of Crisis 4. Speculative Fiction, Atmotechnic Ecology, and the Afterlife of Romantic Air SIOBHAN CARROLL DOI: 10.47788/ZJTA23075. Respiratory Realism: Elemental Intimacies Between “Carbon Black” and Red Desert JEFF DIAMANTIDOI: 10.47788/BRTE9492 6. Rumpled Bedsheets and Online Mourning: Social Photography and the COVID-19 Pandemic—Haruka Sakaguchi’s Quarantine Diary and Marvin Heiferman’s Instagram account @whywelook COREY DZENKODOI: 10.47788/CLTU3625Part III: Trans-Sensory Air: Bodies and Environments 7. Envisioning Experiments on Air and the Nonhuman ARTHUR ROSE DOI: 10.47788/HVZM10658. The Importance of Open Air for Health: Environmental and Medical Intersections CLARE HICKMANDOI: 10.47788/ERNO3036 9. “The Endless Space of Air”: Helen Keller’s Auratic Worldbuilding JAYNE LEWISDOI: 10.47788/HHPU4766 10. Questions of Visibility: Aerial Relations across Society and the Environment, as Revealed by COVID-19 SAVANNAH SCHAUFLERDOI: 10.47788/WSKQ2452Index

Imagining Air is a work of urgent environmental and planetary importance and ought to be read seriously by all who are invested in delivering social, politicaland climate equality.