Elaine Gan
Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Allbritton Center Room 213, 222 Church Street860-685-3400
Assistant Professor of Science in Society
Allbritton Center Room 213, 222 Church Street860-685-3400
Assistant Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Allbritton Center Room 213, 222 Church Street860-685-3400
BA Wellesley College
MFA University of California, Santa Cruz
PHD University of California, Santa Cruz
Elaine Gan
Elaine Gan's teaching, research, and creative practice engage with the fields of feminist science & technology studies (STS), environmental/digital arts and humanities, multispecies anthropology, and experimental media. As a transdisciplinary theorist-artist, Gan uses writing, drawing, installation, and time-based media to explore social relations and coordinations that emerge between species, machines, and landscapes, with a special interest in de/colonial botany, plants, and fungi.
Gan is co-editor of an interdisciplinary anthology titled Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). She is currently working on two book projects about two different crops: the first focuses on multispecies temporalities and global transformations of rice (Oryza sativa); the second focuses on the extinction and transgenic revival of American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) in eastern United States, including Connecticut.
Before coming to Wesleyan, Gan was a faculty member at New York University, postdoctoral fellow at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and art director for the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene Project in Denmark. More about her practice is online at elainegan.com
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Starting 9/9: Mondays 3:30-5pm in person and Wednesdays 3:30-5pm virtual/Zoom.
Courses
Fall 2024
STS 210 - 01
Feminist Technoscience
STS 310 - 01
Botanical STS
Spring 2025
STS 208 - 01
Technologies of Time
STS 311 - 01
Media and Environment