Caroline Abbott

Animal Encounters: A NiCHE Series.
The Otter / La Loutre. Network in Canadian History and Environment. Ed. Caroline Abbott and Heather Green. June — September 2024.

Editorial Writing:
Animal Encounters: Series Introduction. 21 June 2024. Heather Green and Caroline Abbott.
Call for Submissions: Animal Encounters. 5 April 2024. Caroline Abbott and Heather Green.

Contributions:

• Primate Encounters in the Colonial Amazon: Centering Monkeys in Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira’s the “Philosophical Voyage”(1783-1792). 30 August 2024. Maria Eduarda Góes B. da Silva.

• The Caterpillar from the Stick; The Tadpole from the Mud: Cycles of Life and Death in the Writings of Kenelm Digby (1603-1665). 23 August 2024. Devyn Gwynne.

• Finding Swallows. 16 August 2024. Yan Gao.

• Bear Medicine. 9 August 2024. Raymond Sewell.

• Birdwatching in the Archives. 2 August 2024. Daniella McCahey.

• Scales of Change: How the Armour of Individual Fish Sheds Light on Their Collective Past. 19 July 2024. Michael Price.

• Reflections on the Status of the Family Farm Dog. 12 July 2024. Jack Little.

• One or Several Lobos? Uncovering the Wolves Behind the Legend. 5 July 2024. Candice Allmark-Kent.

Ghost Light II: Monstrosities. A NiCHE Series.
The Otter / La Loutre. 26 September - 9 November 2022. Ed. Caroline Abbott.

Editorial writing:
“The Ecology of Fear: or, the Plastic Prometheus (Concluding Ghost Light II: Monstrosities).” 14 November 2023. Caroline Abbott.
“On Monsters as Marionette: An Introduction to Ghost Light II.” 26 September 2023. Caroline Abbott.
CFP: Ghost Light II: Monstrosities. 15 August 2023. Caroline Abbott.

Contributions:

• “Scrap”ping Humanity: A Study of Monstrosity in Frankenstein in Baghdad. 7 November 2023. Sonakshi Srivastava.

• Foreign Body: On the 12-Foot Skeleton as Supra-residential Memento Mori. 31 October 2023. Anna Soper.

• Webs of a Monstrous Spirit: Queerfeminist and Chinese Folkloric Entanglements in The Rewinder 山海旅人.24 October 2023. Ian Boes.

• Something in the Sand: The Haunted Landscapes of Bedouin Nomadic Pastoralists. 17 October 2023. Margaret Freeman.

• Unsightly Relations: A Meditation On (Not) Being Disgusted by Insects. 10 October 2023. Janice Vis.

• Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Quebecois Colonial Imaginary. 3 October 2023. Adrian Deveau.

Ghost Light: Folkloric NonHumanity on the Environmental Stage.
A NiCHE Series. The Otter / La Loutre. 26 September 2022 - 14 November 2022. Ed. Caroline Abbott.

Editorial Writing:
“House Lights, On! Editorial Reflections on the ‘Ghost Light’ Series.” 9 November 2022. Caroline Abbott.
“Whom and What Do I Touch When I Touch My Vampire?”: A Series Introduction to Ghost Light. 12 October 2022. Caroline Abbott.
CFP: Ghost Light: Folkloric Non-Humanity on the Environmental Stage. 12 August 2022. Caroline Abbott.

Contributions:

• The Stories We Tell: Exploring the Folklore of Bees in an Age of Extinction. 1 November 2022. Rosamund Portus.

• “Place of Spirits:” Persistence and Deep-Time Entanglements in Colonised Place. 31 October 2022. Amanda Wells.

• The Parable of Bon Bibi and “Being” in the Sundarbans. 25 October 2022. Suddhasil Halder.

• Another Land Made of Water: Anthropocene Islands and Ecological Apocalypse in the Orcadian Folklore of Walter Traill Dennison. 24 October 2022. Jonathan Westaway.

• Garlic Mustard Assemblages: A Brief Recipe for Pesto. 18 October 2022. Adrianna Michell.

• “A Bear — A Man — A Giant”: On “Sasquatch” as Cryptozoological Missing Link. 17 October 2022. Clare O'Reilly.

Abbott, Caroline. “Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History (Autumn 2023), no. 19. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/axes-ground-wolves-and-women-north-american-frontier. ISSN 2199-3408.

Caroline Abbott. Review of Johnson, Robert M.; Gilman, Sharon L.; Abel, Daniel C.; Pullen, Elise, Tooth and Claw: Top Predators of the World. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. Ed. Daniella McCahey. 3 May, 2024. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=59961.

Two book chapters are forthcoming. Please check this space for updates as the peer review process continues.

• “Oxen Time, Multispecies Moments, and a Furrowed Field.” 9 May 2024. Edge Effects Magazine. Troubling Time Series. University of Wisconsin Madison. Ed. Rudy Molinek.

• “Otters, Otters, Everywhere? (On Beavers of The NiCHE).“ 2 April 2025. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Beavers 2025 Series. Ed. Blair Stein.

• (Conributor) NiCHE Editors’ Year-End Reading List 2023, ed. Sara Spike.

• “My Mother is Part Cow”. 29 June 2023. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Emotional Ecologies Series. Ed. Jessica M. DeWitt and Sarah E. York-Bertram.

• “We Turned Our Eyes Away”: A Visual History of Nansen’s Dogs. 19 January 2023. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Series, Part II. A NiCHE and Jackman Humanities Institute (University of Toronto) Working Group. Ed. Isabelle Gapp; Mark Cheetham.

• “Stuff Stories: A Still Life.” 12 July 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Stuff as Source Series. A NiCHE and Histoire Source | Source Story Collaboration. Ed. Blair Stein.

• “Glass Ghost: The Queer Cartography of an Unruly Revenant”. 22 June 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Succession II Series; Ed. Jessica DeWitt; Addie Hopes.

• “Source Spotlight: A Guide to Navigating 19th Century Periodical “Print Ecologies”. 21 April 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), Ed. Andrew Watson.

• "They Come Down From The North”: Tracking the Transnational Mutant Mythologies of the “Coywolf” (C. latrans) Across a New Climatological Frontier”. 23 February 2022. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), Ed. Jessica DeWitt, supporting.

• “‘The Trouble on Hell Hollow Road: White Ghosts, Maternal Grief, and the Gendered Fragility of American Park Mythology”. 29 June 2021. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Parks and Profit Series; Ed. Jessica DeWitt.

• “Of COVID Landscapes and Lockdown: Kyriarchy, Unsettling Environmental Prose, and Pandemic as time for Authorial Reflection”. 23 September 2020. The Otter / La Loutre, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). ResearchCOVID19 Series; Ed. Andrew Watson.