Elaine Savory
Elaine Savory is Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies and Environmental Studies at The New School. Her work has included scholarship, creative writing (e.g., flame tree time (poems, 1993), and theater practice (actor, director, and writer, most recently of a commissioned play, due for production 2026). Her books include Jean Rhys (1998) and The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys (2009) as well as Wide Sargasso Sea at Fifty (co-edited with Erica Johnson, 2020). She edited The Jean Rhys Review for a number of years and co-edited a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on Jean Rhys with Laurel Harris (2023). She also co-edited the now iconic Out of the Kumbla: Women and Caribbean Literature and its sequel, Beyond the Kumbla: Women and Caribbean Literature (forthcoming 2025). She guest-edited the first ecocritical issue of The Journal of West Indian Literature (2016). She has published a good many ecocritical and environmental humanities essays (e.g., on the breadfruit and on Rachel Carson for Environment, 2024). She was an invited speaker at the first Yale symposium on plant humanities, and her ongoing work is mainly in this new field.
