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Jordan Lovejoy is an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellow, Southern Futures Assistant Director, and Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a PhD in English with an interdisciplinary specialization in folklore from Ohio State University and studied English, Spanish, and Women's & Gender Studies as an undergraduate at West Virginia University. Her hometown is Pineville, West Virginia. Lovejoy is interested in environmental folklife, engaged ethnography, and literature and artistic 

expression of Appalachia and the American South. Her work explores literary and vernacular forms of environmental storytelling, flood narratives, strategies for climate change

communication, and environmental justice action and advocacy work. She is currently working on a book project that examines what flood stories in Appalachia reveal about how people negotiate belief in relation to climate change, activism, and social and environmental justice. Lovejoy has also worked with several community-focused programs and projects like the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub at the University of Minnesota, the Affective Currents Environmental Humanities Institute at Dartmouth College, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s Central Appalachia Living Traditions program, the Ohio Field School project at Ohio State's Center for Folklore Studies, and with the Wyoming East High School theater and Friends of the Earth after-school programs in Wyoming County, West Virginia. She currently works with the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill.