Emily Knudson graduated in Environmental Studies, Spanish, and English Literature at Augsburg University before receiving a Masters degree in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Granada in Spain and a dual degree in Women and Gender Studies and Modern, Post-colonial, and Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna. In January 2020 she starts a Fulbright Fellowship in Brazil. She is interested in the Anthropocene in relation to colonialism, connections between indigenous land and river dispossession in Latin America and in Minnesota, and the intersections of environmental destruction, colonialism, capitalism, and othered bodies. She is also interested in connecting ethnography work and literary/art journal submissions and looks forward to working with students on developing their own voices and sense of agency in relation to these issues.