Meredith Farmer

Meredith Farmer (www.meredithfarmer.org) is an Associate Teaching Professor of Core Literature who is also affiliated with Environment and Sustainability Studies. As a teacher and scholar her focus is on the nineteenth-century in America and the ways that it shaped the present moment. Most of her published work is on Herman Melville, but her current research and teaching interests include the history of slavery in our community here in Winston-Salem and the ways that rhetoric about the environment in the nineteenth century contributed to our current climate crisis.

You can also find Meredith at https://wfu.academia.edu/MeredithFarmer, Wake Forest University, and Facebook.