Lorna Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.

Professor

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Lorna Fitzsimmons has research interests in studies in literature, film and media, musicology, health and medical humanities, cognitive studies, environmental studies, sustainability, disability studies, and gender studies. She is the editor, co-editor, author, or ghostwriter of 12 books (Oxford University Press, Amsterdam University Press [forthcoming], Routledge (2), Palgrave, Northwestern University Press, Lehigh University Press, Purdue University Press, Brepols, Continuum, De Gruyter, Lexington).

Her recent work includes:

“Wiring Plant Circuitry into Cognition and Industry: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Plant Triboelectrification, Sustainable Ecotourism, and Well-Being Ecology,” in Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene, edited by Ratul Nandi, Jagannath Basu, and Jayjit Sarkar, Brill Publishers, the Netherlands, 2024.