The AU Centre for Environmental Humanities is pleased to announce that Antoinette Fage-Butler, Associate Professor in the Department of English, will be its new Deputy Director from 15 May 2025.

Antoinette brings both a unique scholarly background and commitment to interdisciplinary research to CEH’s leadership. Her research works to address the challenges of environmental sustainability and climate change to ensure more equitable, biodiverse futures in two main ways. First, she draws on a communicative approach, focusing on the language applied to these topics, as language can mean different things and be reflective of different cultural values and framings. Second, she seeks to promote collaborative contexts for interdisciplinary research, with an interest in how they can foster new approaches to environmental challenges.

“I see the Environmental Humanities as a broad field of inquiry that incorporates various disciplinary traditions and that has a key role to play in knowledge development around critical issues of our time,” says Antoinette. “I look forward to engaging with centre members on their research projects and to playing a part in promoting the field of environmental humanities."

Antoinette expands CEH’s capacities via her experiences in leading an interdisciplinary research project called (Mis)trust of Scientific Expertise and with running a participatory workshop in a Circle U. project on sustainable futures, both of which established her interest in the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in relation to environmental issues. She is also currently an Associate Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and a member of other green initiatives, such as the START: Centre for Sustainable Agrifoods Systems, and AU iClimate.