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Professor Jay Fiskio serves as Professor of Environmental Studies and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College and Conservatory. Fiskio earned a BA/MDiv from Earlham College, an MA in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon, and a PhD in Environmental Science, Studies, and Policy from the University of Oregon. Fiskio's research specializations encompass ecocriticism, agrarianism and food justice, climate change and cultural studies, social movements, and environmental justice. As an environmental humanist, Fiskio focuses on collaborative, community-based initiatives addressing climate change, direct action, environmental justice, and food justice, with emphasis on the Rust Belt. Fiskio teaches courses including Introduction to Environmental Humanities, Climate Change: Ethics, Equity, Narratives, Environmental Justice Literature, American Agricultures, and Introduction to Food Studies.

Fiskio authored Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice: Poetics of Dissent and Repair, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021, which explores intersections of climate disruption, white supremacy, enslavement, settler colonialism, and resistance through expressive practices such as dance, protests, and cooking, alongside works by authors like Kazim Ali, Octavia Butler, Louise Erdrich, Winona LaDuke, Mark Nowak, Simon Ortiz, Jesmyn Ward, and Colson Whitehead. Since 2014, Fiskio has collaborated with the Africatown, Alabama community, securing an NSF conference grant in 2017 with Assistant Professor Chie Sakakibara for a community history workshop and developing the Africatown Digital Archive to preserve oral histories. Fiskio has contributed to securing a $1M Mellon Foundation grant for Oberlin's Food Studies Partnership with Lorain County Community College. Fiskio delivers public lectures, including President's Lectures at Oberlin on topics like frontline communities and environmental repair, and serves on the editorial board of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.