Latin American Literature + Environmental Humanities

Kate Ostrom is a Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She holds a PhD in Hispanic and Latin American languages, literatures, and linguistics and the environmental humanities from Wayne State University. Her current project analyzes the US-Mexico border through an environmental humanities approach, tracing the multi-being losses that occur in borderscapes. Kate was a 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 Wayne State Rumble Fellow.