Christy Call, Ph.D.

Dr. Christy Call is an Associate Professor of English at Weber State University, where she teaches American literature, critical theory, environmental humanities, and interdisciplinary studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah, with an interdisciplinary specialization in English, environmental humanities, and pedagogy. Her scholarship brings literature into conversation with ecology to explore questions of ontology, agency, ethics, animacy, and relationality, with particular attention to the relationships among human, animal, and more-than-human life. Her work examines the ethical implications of moving beyond human-centered frameworks and attending more fully to the lives, agencies, and relationships of animals and other more-than-human beings.

Call’s research spans American literature, with sustained attention to contemporary writers including Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Joan Didion. Her publications explore ecological thought, climate change, and the ethical dimensions of human and more-than-human relations. Her forthcoming work includes a chapter on Beloved and Jazz in the Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison. Her scholarship on McCarthy examines ecological cosmology, wilderness, decomposition, and the relational forces that connect diverse forms of life.

These questions also shape Call’s teaching. She approaches literary study as a practice of sustained attention, inviting students to engage difficult ethical questions, encounter perspectives that challenge human-centered assumptions, and consider how literature can transform our understanding of animals, ourselves, and the more-than-human worlds we inhabit.