Dr. Spencer Adams
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Rachel Carson Center
- 2018
- M.A. in Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley
- 2023
- Ph.D. in Rhetoric (designated emphases in Critical Theory and Science and Technology Studies), UC-Berkeley
- 2023-present
- Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher, Chair of Environmental Humanities, LMU Munich
Research
- Polar History and Geography
- Science and Technology Studies
- Science and Speculative Fiction Studies
- Histories of Work and Labor
Selected Publications
- Beneath the Global Environment: Workplace Stories of the Antarctic (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan)
- "Workers’ control and the political imaginaries of Callenbach’s Ecotopia." The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal (November 2025). https://doi.org/10.1080/27708888.2025.2596543.
- “Navigating Waves of Capital and History: On Speculation and Submersion in Delany’s ‘Atlantis: 1924’.” Science Fiction Studies 50, no. 3 (November 2023): 346-367. https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2023.a910325.
- “Imaginaries of Planetary Inhabitance: Polar Futurism and the Labors of Climate Science.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 6, no. 3 (September 2023): 1854–73. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221129124.
- “Staging the Speculative: On Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140.” Qui Parle 27, no. 2 (2018): 521–38. https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-7200512.
Teaching
- Research Methods in Environment and Society
- Representation and Outreach in Environment and Society
- Current Perspectives on Environment and Society: Thinking, Envisioning,
and Building Futures
- Marxist Feminist Theory (Fall 2022, UC-Berkeley)
- Critical Narratives of Work and Productivity (Fall 2020, UC-Berkeley)
- Space, Place, and Geography (Spring 2020, Mt. Tamalpais College at San Quentin Prison)
- Histories of "Life" in Science and Philosophy, Lucretius to Present (Fall 2019, UC-Berkeley)
- Critical Science Studies (Fall 2019, Mt. Tamalpais College at San Quentin Prison)