Kelly Gray is a third year PhD student in English at Boston College studying twentieth century American literature. Her research concerns the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the environmental humanities. Beginning with her master’s thesis "Saved? What is saved?": The Potentiality of Bakhtinian Ecology in DeLillo's White Noise,” Kelly’s work takes up the question of subjectivity within the Anthropocene. Her work, “The Octopus and the Other: Capitalocene Contradictions in the Symbolic Order,” has been published in the Journal of Ecohumanism, and she has an essay forthcoming in The Philosophical Salon. She has presented at numerous conferences, including on an eco-theory panel for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment’s EmergencE/Y 2021 Conference and on a psychoanalytic panel for Defining the Human in Environmental Humanities 2022 seminar at Venice International University. She serves as the Graduate Assistant to the Literature Core program as well as the co-organizer of the Graduate Reading Group in the Environmental Humanities.
