Faculty Scholarship and Creative Contributions
Below are scholarly and creative contributions and achievements by Environmental Humanities Affiliated Faculty since 2020.
Dr. Joshua King (English)
Book:
Creation’s Praise: Poetry, Liturgy, and Ecological Crisis in Modernity (forthcoming for the Cambridge Elements Literature and Religion since 1500 Series, Cambridge University Press).
Articles/Chapters in Collections:
“‘Dearest freshness deep down things’: Christ and Soil in Hopkins’s Verse,” special issue of Literature and Belief 43 (forthcoming 2026) (5,500 words).
“Social and Environmental Justice.” The Cambridge Companion to Religion in Victorian Literary Culture, ed. Mark Knight (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026) (6,000 words).
“Wordsworth’s Churchyards: Composting Localism in Compromised Sacred Commons.” Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1810s, ed. Emma Mason, Cambridge series on Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition (Cambridge UP, 2026), pp. 66-91. (10,000 words).
“Literary Counter-Liturgies and Environmental Justice.” Handbook of Religion and the Environment, eds. Ibrahim Ozdemir, Stephanie Boddie, and Susan Bratton (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2026), pp. 124-140 (9,000 words).
Chapter on “Ecology.” Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context, ed. Marton Dubois, Cambridge series on Literature in Context (Cambridge University Press 2025), pp. 149-156 (3,000 words).
With Chris Adamson, Emily Allen, Dino Franco Felluga, and Monica Wolfe. “Event 2024: Embodied and Virtual Events across Nations and Time,” Victorian Review 50.1 (pub. 2025 [issue for Spring 2024]), contribution to special “Forum: Thinking Relationally: Victorian Studies and the Climate Crisis” guested edited by Barbara Leckie, pp. 31-35.
“The Democratisation of the Bible: Education, Economics, Ecology,” The Nineteenth Century, ed. Elisabeth Jay in The Bible and Western Christian Literature: Books and the Book, 5 vols., ed. Elisabeth Jay and Stephen Pricket et al. (T&T Clark Bloomsbury Publishing 2024), pp. 353-396 (25,000 words: 10,000-word essay followed by 15,000 words of illustrative material and commentary)
“Revelatory Beasts: Christina Rossetti on the Apocalypse and Creation’s Worship,” Christianity and Literature 70.4 (2021), pp. 382-403 (10,970 words). Awarded the 2021 Lionel Basney Award for outstanding article of the year.
“Child Labour and the Idolatry of Nature in ‘The Cry of the Children’ and A Drama of Exile,” Women’s Writing 27.4 (2020), special issue on “Women and Labour in the Nineteenth Century,” edited by Lisa Surridge and Mary Elizabeth Leighton, pp. 404-415 (5,200 words).
Keynotes and Invited Lectures:
Keynote for Lectureship, “Other Creatures Praise: Poetry, Liturgy, and Ecological Crisis in Modernity” & Seminar on “Cultivating Refugia: Literature Classes Contributing to Local Healing,” Annual Lectureship in Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame (April 16-18, 2026).
Seminar for Lectureship, “Cultivating Refugia: Literature Classes and Local Healing.”Annual Lectureship on Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, April 2026
Invited Lecture: “‘Dearest freshness deep down things’: Christ and Soil in Hopkins’s Verse,” invitation-only Summit on Literature and Religion, Bringham Young University (June 14, 2025).
Invited Lecture: With Stephanie Boddie, "Sacred Convictions, Sustainable Cities: Solutions from Waco's SCRAP Collective and Baylor University," United Nations World Urban Form 12 (Convened by UN- Habitat), Cairo, Egypt. (November 6, 2024).
Keynote: “Soil and Soul: Nourishing Lands and Lives in the Humanities," Craft, Critique, Culture Conference: Emerald-Colored Glasses, An Environmental Vision, University of Iowa English Department, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA). (April 21, 2023).
Invited Lecture: “‘I all-creation sing’: Christina Rossetti’s Cosmic Liturgy and Challenge to Anthropocentrism,” authors’ symposium in Yosemite National Park for contributors to Virtue, Vice, and Ecoflourishing: Multidisciplinary Christian Perspectives (Oct. 22, 2021).
Keynote: “Lords of the Earth? Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Christ’s Body in the Age of Human Domination,” keynote lecture for Browning Day, Armstrong Browning Library (on Zoom: April 16, 2021).
Invited Lecture: "'I all-creation sing': Christina Rossetti on Cosmic Liturgy," invited lecture for Nineteenth-Century Postgraduate Research Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge (on Zoom: March 9, 2021).
Other Academic Presentations:
“‘Deep down Things’ Soil, Ecology, and Christ’s Body in Gerard Manley Hopkins” North American Victorian Studies Association. Washington D.C. Nov. 2025
King, Joshua, Stephanie Boddie, Jodien Johnson, et al. “Community Engaged Education and Research for Environmental Justice” Green Communities Conference. Waco, TX Sept. 2025
“Counter-Climates: Cultivating Environmental and Food Justice with University Students and Local Communities” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. College Park, Maryland, July 2025
“’Deep Down Things’: Soil and Christ’s Body in Hopkins’s Poetry” Gerard Manley Hopkins Society International Literary Festival
King, Joshua, Chisa Brigham, Bethel Erickson, et al. “Agriculture in Waco” (Organized and Led Panel Discussion) Symposium on Saving the Earth Through Agriculture. April 2025.
King, Joshua, Ruben Andrade, Kay Bell, et al. '”Waco’s Sustainable Community and Regenerative Agriculture Project” Together at the Table: Hunger and Poverty Summit Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty. April 2025
A Conversation with Other Hubs: EVENT 2024 Conference, "After the EVENT: Continuing the Conversation in a Victoriographies Special Issue"," Yonsei University (Sinchon Korea), Zoom presentation (to audience in South Korea).
(September 27, 2024)
North American Victorian Studies Association Conference: Revision, Return, Reform, "Christina Rossetti's Ecological Poetics," North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN. (November 9, 2023).
"Spotlight on Culturally Relevant, Locally Managed, Regenerative Solutions," Together at the Table: Hunger and Poverty Summit Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, Baylor (Bill Daniel Student Building). (November 3, 2023).
King, Joshua, Stephanie Boddie, Green Communities Conferences, "Workshop: Sustainable Community and Regenerative Agriculture Project in Waco—Help Build a New Green Collective," Waco, TX. (September 19, 2023).
""Earth's Child: Gerard Manley Hopkins on Soil, Poetry, and Justice"," North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. (October 1, 2022).
“Christina Rossetti’s Revelatory Beasts and the Apocalypse,” North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference (March 4, 2022)
"Growing Green Communities: Spirituality, Culture, and Narrative," Green Communities Conference, Make Waco Beautiful, City of Waco, Waco Sustainability Network, Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC). (September 14, 2022)
“Christina Rossetti’s Ecotheology and Ecopoetics,” Lancaster University Literature and Religion Reading Group, Lancaster University, UK, invited to lead seminar for faculty and graduate students at Lancaster and leading universities in UK (on Zoom: June 10, 2021).
Seminar discussion with the authors: "New Work on Literature and Religion: 2020 Articles on EBB and Religion by Dr. Joshua King and Dr. Denae Dyck." The Religion and Spiritualities Caucus of the North American Victorian Studies Association (on Zoom: January 23, 2021).
King, Joshua, Julia Saville (U of Illinois), "Victorian Poetry and Ecocriticism." The Victorian Poetry Caucus of the North American Victorian Studies Association (on Zoom: Nov. 14, 2020).
"Organizing a Flightless Conference." Public Scholarship Workshop, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of South Dakota (on Zoom, also with Emory University: Nov. 6, 2020).
"Green Sanctuaries: Christina Rossetti on the Congregation of Creation and the Rights of Creatures." Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS), Los Angeles, CA, March 6, 2020 (digital presentation beamed into conference).
Grants and Awards:
Annual Lectureship: Selected as Annual Lecturer in Literature and Religion at the University of Notre Dame (2026).
Environmental Protection Agency Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grant Program (CCGP), $17.9 million total in partnership with Waco, TX nonprofits, led by Mission Waco, and City of Waco; $938,141 for Baylor projects (awarded for 2025-2027; terminated without due process or justification April 2025): PI (Stephanie Boddie,
Baylor), Co-PI (Joshua King, Baylor), Co-PI (Kevin Magill, Baylor). To advance local initiatives in food security, sustainable urban agriculture, and climate resilience in disadvantaged communities, with Baylor contributing to these efforts through educational initiatives and related programming in partnership with citywide Sustainable Community and Regenerative Agriculture Project, including at the Baylor Community Garden.
Matching Grant from the Funders Network’s Partners for Places Program and the Cooper Foundation, $300,000 total in partnership with Waco, TX nonprofits, led by Mission Waco, and City of Waco; $44,420 for Baylor projects (2023-2024): PI (Stephanie Boddie, Baylor), Co-PI (Joshua King, Baylor).To create and implement the Sustainable Community and
Regenerative Agriculture Project (SCRAP) Collective. SCRAP is a collective of Baylor researchers, educational programs, and organizations across the city that is growing healthy food and environments for all in Central Texas through community-based gardening, composting, community education, and community-engaged learning and research by Baylor faculty, staff, and students. SCRAP is creating a thriving, just, and resilient local food system that promotes care for the environment, celebrates culture, and ensures access to food for all.
Planning Grant from the Funders Networks’ Partners for Places Program, $10,000 in partnership with Waco, TX nonprofits, led by Mission Waco, and City of Waco; Baylor contributors Stephanie Boddie and Joshua King (2022): Planning grant to facilitate strategic partnerships to create a regenerative food culture and related infrastructure for food waste diversion form landfill and education on food waste and composting. Ledto creation of Sustainable Community and Regenerative Agriculture Project (SCRAP) Collective.
Teaching Exploration Grant from Baylor University Academy for Teaching and Learning, $9,902 to Joshua King (2022): Planning grant to create new Environmental Humanities Minor by assembling team of interdisciplinary faculty for workshops and consultations with directors of comparable programs at other institutions.
Awarded the 2021 Lionel Basney Award for outstanding article of the year in Christianity and Literature. (“Revelatory Beasts: Christina Rossetti on the Apocalypse and Creation’s Worship”)
James A. Marcum
Books (single authored):
Marcum, J.A. 2026. Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine. x + 224 pp. London: Academic Press.
Marcum, J.A. 2024. Conceptual Foundations of Systems Medicine. Systems Biology— Theory, Techniques and Application Series, xi + 289 pp. New York: Nova Science Publishers. https://doi.org/10.52305/LUOY0764
Marcum, J.A. 2020. From Systems Biology to Systems Medicine. Systems Biology—Theory, Techniques and Application Series, xvi + 229 pp. New York: Nova Science Publishers. https://doi.org/10.52305/EEBF9269
Book (edited):
Marcum, J.A. (Ed.). 2026. The Art and Science of Clinical Reasoning: Enhancing Diagnostic and Decision-Making Skills. Forthcoming by Nova Science Publishers.
Peer-reviewed Publications:
Durham, L., and Marcum, J.A. Clinical case studies and person-centered medicine. Forthcoming in Singular Knowledge: The Clinical Case in the History and Epistemology of Medicine. R. Campaner and C. Gabbani (Eds.). Roma: Carocci.
Marcum, J.A. Thomas Kuhn’s evolutionary philosophy of science and The Plurality of Worlds. Forthcoming in Kuhn’s Unpublished Legacy. On the Lectures and The Plurality of Worlds. B. Borge, L. Giri, and Á. Rivera-Novoa (Eds.). De Gruyter.
Marcum, J.A. Ecologic crisis, speciesism, and food injustice. Forthcoming by Baylor University Press.
Merritt, L., and Marcum, J.A. Personalized/preventive nutrition in nutrigenomics. Forthcoming in Nutrigenomics for Clinical Medicine and Personalized Healthcare. J. Kaput and D. Kumar (Eds.). Elsevier.
Marcum, J.A. 2026. Princes of physicians: Avicenna and Maimonides. Hektoen
International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. https://hekint.org/2026/01/16/princes-of-physicians-avicenna-and-maimonides/
Marcum, J.A. 2025. El Giro Evolucionista de Kuhn y las Conferencias Notre Dame (Thomas Kuhn’s evolutionary turn and the Notre Dame lectures). In Thomas Kuhny el Cambio Revolucionario: Una Mirada a las Conferencia Notre Dame (Thomas Kuhn and Conceptual Change: A Look at the Notre Dame Lectures). L. Giri, I. Cervieri, and P. Melogno (Eds.), 107-118. Uruguay: Universidad de la República.
Feigin, S.V., Wiebers, D.O., Blumstein, D.T., Knight, A., Eshel, G., Lueddeke, G., Kopnina H., Feigin, V.L., Morand, S., Lee, K., Brainin, M., Shackelford, T.K., Alexander, S.M., Marcum, J., Merskin D., Skerratt L.F., van Kleef G.A., Whitfort, A., Freeman C.P., and Winkler, A.S. 2025. Solving climate change requires changing our food systems. Oxford Open Climate Change. 5(1): kgae024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgae024
Marcum, J.A. 2025. “Doing the right things” first and then “Doing things right.” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Medicine 31(3): e70079.https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.70079
Marcum, J.A. 2025. Systems medicine. In Systems Biology and In-Depth Applications for Unlocking Diseases: Principles, Tools, and Applications. B. Sokouti (Ed.), 259-269. London: Academic Press.
Marcum, J.A. 2025. The Hippocratic tradition and the development of medical knowledge and practice. In Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, 2nd edition. T. Schramme and M.J. Walker (Eds.), 1071-1102. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_82-2
Tretter, F., Mormina, M., Müller, B., Caniglia, G., Engebretsen, E., Löffler-Stastka, H., Marcum, J., Mercuri, M., Paul, E., Pfaff, H., Russo, F., Sturmberg, J., and Weckwerth, W. 2024. Where to after COVID-19? Systems thinking for a human-
centred approach to pandemics. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 11: 733. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03246-4
Marcum, J.A. 2024. Philosophy of contemporary medicine. Oxford Bibliographies, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0216
Sturmberg, J.A., and Marcum, J.A. 2024. From cause and effect to causes and effects. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Medicine 30: 296-308. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13814
Feigin, S.V., Wiebers, D.O., Lueddeke, G., Morand, S., Lee, K., Knight, A., Brainin, M., Feigin, V.L., Whitfort, A., Marcum, J., and Shackelford, T.K. 2023. Proposed solutions to anthropogenic climate change: A systematic literature review and a
new way forward. Heliyon 9(10): e20544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20544
Marcum, J.A. 2023. COVID-19, Scientific and societal values, and Post-Normal Science. International Journal of Health, Wellness, and Society. 13(2): 53-64. https://doi.org/10.18848/2156-8960/CGP/v13i02/53-64
Marcum, J.A. 2023. Patient-oriented research and the shiny object syndrome: Commentary on Turcotte et al. (2023). The shiny new object: Deconstructing the patient-oriented paradigm in health sciences. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical
Medicine 29: 721-725. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13826
Marcum, J.A., and Tretter, F. 2023. From evidence-based corona medicine to organismic systems corona medicine. Philosophy of Medicine 4(1): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2023.138
Marcum, J.A. 2023. Claude Bernard’s experimental method of head and hand. History and Philosophy of Medicine 5(2): 7. https://doi.org/10.53388/HPM2023007
Tretter, F., Peters, E., Strumberg, J., Bennett, J., Voit, E., Dietrich, J.W., Smith, G., Weckwerth, W., Grossman, Z., Wolkenhauer, O., and Marcum, J.A. 2023. Perspectives of (‘memorandum for’) systems thinking on COVID-19 pandemic
and pathology. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Medicine 29: 415-429. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13772
Marcum, J.A. 2023. From mechanistic biomedicine to organismal system medicine. ArtefaCToS. Journal of Science and Technology Studies 12(1): 125-152. https://doi.org/10.14201/art2023121125152
Tretter, F., and Marcum, J. 2023. ‘Medical Corona Science’: sophical and systemic issues: Re-thinking medicine? On the epistemology of Corona medicine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Medicine 29: 405-414. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13734
Marcum, J.A. 2021. Head and hand: Claude Bernard’s experimental medicine. Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. https://hekint.org/2021/09/13/head-and-hand-claude-bernards-experimental-medicine/.
Tretter, F., Wolkenhauer, O., Meyer-Hermann, M., Dietrich, J.W., Green, S., Marcum, J., and Weckwerth, W. 2021. The quest for systems-theoretical medicine in the COVID-19 era. Frontiers in Medicine 8: 640974. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.640974
Marcum, J.A. 2021. Giorgio Baglivi and The Practice of Physick. Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. https://hekint.org/2021/02/16/giorgio-baglivi-and-the-practice-of-physick/.
Marcum, J.A. 2021. P7 medicine: Humanizing systems medicine. Theorema 40: 215-231.
Marcum, J.A. 2020. What does the zoonotic origins of COVID-19 teach us about preventing future pandemics? Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. https://hekint.org/2020/11/20/what-does-the-zoonotic-origin-of-covid-19-teach-us-about-preventing-future-pandemics/.
Marcum, J.A. 2020. Can we handle the truth of what COVID-19 is telling us? Animal Sentience 5(30): 17. https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol5/iss30/17/.
Marcum, J.A. 2020. Nutrigenetics/nutrigenomics, personalized nutrition and healthcare. Current Nutrition Reports 9: 338-345.
Marcum, J.A. 2020. Las filosofías de la ciencia Thomas Kuhn: Del ciclo revolucionario al árbol evolutivo. Thomas Kuhn’s philosophies of science: From revolutionary cycle to evolutionary tree. Cuadernos de Filosofía. 38: 19-39.
Marcum, J.A. 2020. Axiological analysis for the role of values in person-centered healthcare. European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare 8: 183-192.
Non-peer Reviewed Publications:
Marcum, J.A. 2025. Forward. In Systems Biology and In-Depth Applications for Unlocking Diseases: Principles, Tools, and Applications. B. Sokouti (Ed.), xvii. London: Academic Press.
Marcum, J.A. 2024. A storm is coming: A thought experiment. Literary Veganism. https://www.litvegan.net/2024/02/poetry-by-margaret-marcum-and-prose-by.html
Marcum, J.A. 2024. Blood-red hands. Literary Veganism. https://www.litvegan.net/2024/02/poetry-by-margaret-marcum-and-prose-by.html
Marcum, J.A. 2023. Wendell Berry, Health, and COVID-19. The BeZine 10(1).
https://thebezine.com/portfolio/health-wholeness-marcum/
Koenig, D. 2022. Still too soon? Personalized diets. WebMD
https://www.webmd.com/special-reports/future-of-food/20220602/personalized-diets
P.J. Wehry (The Chasing the Leviathan Podcast) 2022 interview #35 What is Person Centered Healthcare?
YouTube: https://youtu.be/i-0N6LlQeqA
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3nfeOTGygv8tcSUY94BUQD
Marcum, J.A. 2020. Forward. In Jongduck Choi, Philosophy of Medicine: Normative and Naturalistic Approaches Korea: CIR Press. philonatu.com/2019/03/24/book-korean-the-philosophy-of-medicine-jongduck-
choi-cri-1-dec-2019/
Papers, Lectures, Conferences, and Workshops:
“Biohacking Our Way to Health and Transhumanism,” Sixteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, University of Guadalajara, México, September 9-11, 2026.
“Artificial Intelligence, Personal Injury Law, and Art of Attorney-Client Relationships” and “Your Transformational Journey from AI Zero to AI Hero,” Technology and the Human Person in the Age of AI, Institute for Faith and Learning, Baylor University, Waco, TX, February 26-28, 2026.
“From a Reductionistic Biomedical Model to a Holistic Healthcare Model: A Paradigm Shift,” Fifteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, September 4-5, 2025.
“Food Ethics: Injustice and Insecurity,” “Speciesism and Ecologic Crisis,” and “Ripe for Picking: Approaches to Developing and Sustaining Fruitful Professionalism,” Renewing & Reimagining Institutions for the Common Good, Institute for Faith and Learning, Baylor University, Waco, TX, October 17-19, 2024.
“Pandemics, Speciesism, and Public Health,” Fourteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, Malmö University, Niagara, Malmö, SE, October 3-4, 2024.
“The Future of Digital Health and Its Challenges,” Thirteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, UBC Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada, September 14-15, 2023.
“Systems Thinking in Pandemic Times,” Philosophy of Corona Science Conference, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna, AT, December 9, 2022.
“COVID-19 and the Clash over Scientific and Social Values,” Twelfth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 8-9, 2022.
“A New Epistemology for a Theoretical Medicine,” Philosophy of Corona Science Conference, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna, AT, June 3, 2022.
“Scientific and Social Values, Post-normal Science, and COVID-19,” 10th Annual Conference on Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, May 19-21, 2022.
“The Plurality of Systems Medicines’?: Towards a Post-Normal Systems Medicine to Avoid the Pandemic Spiral”, Philosophy of Corona Science Conference, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna, AT, March 25, 2022.
“The Need for a ‘Theoretical Medicine’—How to Develop Conceptual Frameworks that can Integrate Evidence?”, Philosophy of Corona Science Conference, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna, AT, February 25, 2022.
“A Complementarity Model for Data-Intensive and Hypothesis-Driven Science,” Philosophy of Science Association Biannual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November 11-14, 2021.
“Giorgio Baglivi: Empiricism and Rationalism in Medicine”, Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science 2021 Virtual Conference, Emory University, March 11-13, 2021.
“P7 Medicine: Humanizing Systems Medicine”, Corona & Systems Medicine Workshop, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Berlin, DE, June 26-27, 2020.
Nicholas R. Werse
Books:
Werse, N. R. (Forthcoming). Levita: The economic rise and fall of a rural farming town and the institutions that made it (1856–1981). Texas State Historical Association Press.
Research supported by the 2017–2018 Baylor Oral History Institute Community Oral History Grant, the 2018 Bryce C. Brown Research Fellowship, and the 2020 Baylor Fundamentals of Data Research Fellowship.
Werse, N. R. (2024). Zephaniah: An Earth Bible Commentary. EBC. T&T Clark. Research supported by the 2021 Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Junior Scholar Grant.
Journal Articles / Book Chapters:
Werse, N. R. (Forthcoming). Expanding digital citizenship in the age of AI and climate crisis. In Sheila Jagannathan (Ed.). Digital learning for climate change education: Supporting awareness and collective action through emerging technologies. Routledge.
Werse, N. R. (Forthcoming). Developing an ecocritical awareness of AI in education: Beyond the algorithms. In Sandra Leaton Gray and David Aldridge (Eds.). British Educational Research Association Handbook on AI in Education. Emerald.
Werse, N. R. (Forthcoming). Placelessness and the postexilic hope for restoration: Anagrarian reading of Psalms 103–107. In W. Dennis Tucker, Jr. (Ed.) Agrarian readings of the Book of Psalms. SBL Press.
Werse, N. R. (Forthcoming). Songs of ecological trauma in the Book of theTwelve. In R. P. Hays (Ed.), Singing to survive and thrive. Baylor University Press.
Werse, N. R. (2025). Deconstructing creation: Ecocritical considerations on the reversal of Genesis 1 in Hosea 4:1–3 and Zephaniah 1:2–3. Horizons in Biblical Theology, 47, 168–191. Research supported by the 2021 Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Junior Scholar Grant.
Werse, N. R. (2023). Between the local and the global: The tension of cultivating a bi-directional ecocritical awareness in education. The Journal of Environmental Education, 54(5), 341–350. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2023.2238260
Werse, N. R. (2023). The quest to cultivate an ecocritical awareness in educational technology scholarship: A question of disciplinary focus in the age of environmental crisis. British Journal of Educational Technology, 54(5), 341–350. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13327
Werse, N. R. (2020). Realigning the cosmos: The intertextual image of judgment and restoration in Zephaniah. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 45, 111–127.
Academic Conference Presentations:
Werse, N. R. (2026, November). “A land to call our own”: Ecocritical readings of placelessness, citylessness, and restoration in Psalms 103–107. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference. Denver, CO.
Werse, N. R. (2024, March 2). Songs of ecological trauma in the Book of the Twelve. The Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Regional Society of Biblical Literature Conference. Dallas, TX.
*Research supported by the 2021 Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Junior Scholar Grant.
Werse, N. R. (2022, November 19–22). Disrupting the markets: The intersection of environmental destruction and commerce in Zephaniah 1. The Society of Biblical Literature National Conference. Denver, CO.
*Research supported by the 2021 Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Junior Scholar Grant.
Werse, N. R. (2022, March 5). Reading the Book of the Twelve in the age of ecological crisis. The Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Regional Society of Biblical Literature Conference. Dallas, TX.
*Research supported by the 2021 Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Junior Scholar Grant.
Jodien Matos Johnson
Arts and Sciences Teaching Innovation Award (Summer 2023): Development of new Environmental Sociology course. Environmental Sociology is an upper-level
undergraduate, engaged learning course.
Sarah Mosher
Ecoscenographic Performance Design:
2026 Costume Design. Method Feature Film Script by Matt Foss and Cora Vander Broek. Directed by Cora Vander Broek.
2026 DID YOU EAT? (밥 먹었니?) by Zoë Kim. Directed by Chris Yejin. Produced by Amphibian Stage. Fort Worth, TX.
2026 Alice By Heart. Written by Book by Steven Sater and Jessie Nelson, Music by Duncan Sheik, Lyrics by Steven Sater. Directed by Stacey Schiller. Produced by Baylor University Theatre. Waco, TX.
2025 All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. by Peter Rothstein, Vocal Arrangements by Erick Lichte & Timothy C. Takach. Directed by Dana Schultes. Produced by Stage West Theatre. Fort Worth, TX.
2025 Little Women: the Broadway Musical Written by Book by Allan Knee, Music by Jason Howland, Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein. Directed by Lisa Denman. Produced by Baylor University Theatre. Waco, TX.
2025 Describe the Night by Rajiv Joseph. Directed by Steven Pounders. Produced by Baylor University Theatre. Waco, TX. *Sets and costumes
2024 The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse. Directed by David Jortner. Produced by Baylor University Theatre. Waco, TX. *Sets and costumes
2024 I am an Island by Julia Lederer. Directed by Angela Gulner. Produced by Watering Hole Collective as a selected work in AT&T performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project. Dallas, TX. *World Premiere
2024 Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery. Directed by Jay Duffer. Produced by Second Thought Theatre. Dallas, TX.
2023 Scrooge in Rouge by Jeffery Roberson & Yvette Hargis. Directed by Danielle Georgiou. Produced by Theatre Three. Dallas, TX.
2023 Three Sisters by Anton Chekov, Translated by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Lucas Skajret. Produced by Baylor University Theatre. Waco, TX.
2023 Things Under the Surface & Parts of the Whole. Choreographed by Karin Stevens Seattle International Dance Festival. Seattle, WA Produced by Karin Stevens Dance.
2022 A Monster Calls based on the novel by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, devised by the company. Directed by Chelsea Curto. Produced by Baylor University Theatre. Waco, TX. *Sets and costumes
2022 Stede Bonnet: a F*cking Pirate Musical by Nicole Neely & Clint Gilbert. Directed by Danielle Georgiou. Music Directed by Danny Anchondo Jr. Produced by Theatre Three. Dallas, Tx. *Co-Costume Design*
2021 Scrooge in Rouge by Jeffery Roberson & Yvette Hargis. Directed by Danielle Georgiou. Produced by StageWest Theatre. Fort Worth, TX.
2021 Jewel:Bearing Witness from the Table Concept and Creation by Sarah Mosher & Alex Holliday. Produced via a grant from Amphibian Stage, Fort Worth, TX.
Devised and Interdisciplinary Projects:
2026 Belonging
Sustainably made data visualization fiber art installation created by students from Arts as Civic Practice A Theatre Arts course that counts towards the Environmental Humanities minor, and Engaged Learning), and Surface Design (An Art & Art History course in fiber arts). Brought a guest data artist fromColombia to offer workshops to our students, and the community at large. Presented at the Miller-Bledsoe STEAM center and then The National Cathedral as part of The Understory in May 2026. Scheduled to be presented at various churches, organizations and businesses around Waco over the coming year.
2025 Gratitude
Sustainably made data visualization fiber art installation made as a result of student work in Research Methods in Sustainable Design (A Theatre Arts course that counts towards the Environmental Humanities minor), Non-Woven Fiber Arts in Art & Art History, and students from Data Visualization in Computer Science. Installation presented in Moody Library. Waco, TX. Scheduled to be presented at Wake Forest University in December 2026.
2021 The Body Project.
Culmination of summer sabbatical work researching the ways in which the body holds trauma. A performance exploration of the material drawing parallels between the way trauma interrupts systems in the body and the ways in which human intervention can interrupt systems in the environment. Performed on-site in Brazos Park East. Involved in ideation, direction, all aspects of design, and performance. Waco, TX.
Art Instillations:
2024 Rocks in Her Pockets & Enfolding the Knot (fiber art) Circularity Fiber Arts Exhibition. San Antonio, TX.
2024 Costume from A Monster Calls (selected Costume Design) World Costume in Action. Bucharest, Romania.
2023 Flora & Fauna. (fiber art) Art as Worship at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Waco, TX.
2023 [in]finite cycles. (bioArt) Art as Worship at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Waco, TX.
2022 Desolation. (fiber art) Art as Worship at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Waco, TX.
2022 Enfolding the Knot. (fiber art)
2022 Art Seeking Understanding, Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
2022 Art as Worship at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Waco, TX.
2021 Flores Juninas (fiber art, found-object) co-created to mark the Paulo Freire Centennial, Baylor University Jones Library - Waco, TX.
2021 The Last Days (photograph). Art as Worship at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church (Online) - Waco, TX.
2020 Hearing as Seeing (mixed media). University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX.
2019 Surrender (fiber arts). Art as Worship at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church - Waco, TX.
Publications:
2025 A Heritage of Patan Patola: The Exquisite Artistry of Double Ikat Weaving. Article in Theatre Design and Technology, Issue 1, 2025. USITT.
2023 Examining And Creating Connections in Costume History Through Cultural Intersections and Alternative Assessment Models. Chapter in New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles ed. Ashley Bellet. Taylor & Francis /Routledge.
2020 “Grow your own creativity” published in Practice Magazine (online), May 3, 2020.
Juried Conference Presentation:
2026 Workshop presentation. Theatre & Health. International Festival of Theatre Schools. Hosted by School of Drama and Fine Arts. Thrissur, Kerala,India.
2026 Keynote presentation on sustainable design for theatre. University of Mysore. Mysore, India.
2025 Exploring Bioplastics in Costume Crafts. Selected Hands-on Workshop. USITT. Columbus, Ohio. *Co-presenter: Lauren Brown BFA student.
2024 Selected Flash Talk. Bioplastics in Costume Design. World Costume in Action. Romania.
2024 International Design Conference. Selected to present a research topic, workshop, and costume designs over two weeks in India by the International Organisation of Scenographers Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT) (in person, international).
2022 The Body Project: Exploring the effect of materiality on embodied human connection. Critical Costume 2022 (online, international).
2022 What Pretty Costumes: The challenge of costuming as a transformative art form. Art Seeking Understanding, Institute for Faith and Learning, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
2022 Flash Talk. The Body Project: Exploring the effect of materiality on embodied human connection. World Stage Design, Calgary, Alberta and online.
Invited Panels & Talks:
2025 Invited lecture and demonstration. Bioplastics in performance. Guildhall School of Music. London, UK.
2025 Invited Presenter. Gratitude: Sustainable fiber arts interpretation of data visualization. University of Arts London, Data Visualization. London, UK.
2025 Invited Week-long Workshop. Bioplastics for costume and fashion. University of the Arts Poznan. Poznan, Poland.
2025 Invited Workshop presentation. Bioplastics. City of Dallas parks. Dallas, TX.
2025 Invited Presenter. Fashion is Plastic: The Role of Clothing and Textiles in the Plastic Problem. North Texas Master Naturalist. Dallas, TX.
2024 Invited Presenter. The Tragedy of Textile Trash. The Sierra Club of Dallas. Dallas, Tx.
2024 Invited Week-long Workshop. Bioplastics for Costume. Vestuario a Escena. Mexico City, Mexico.
2023 Invited Presenter. Texas Landowner’s Association. Co-presented with a student researcher on the history and uses of Hemp in Texas. Waco, TX.
2023 Invited Presenter. Green Productions at Baylor: Reframing Season Selection to Highlight ustainable Practices. American Theatrical Costume Association Conference (online,
United States).
2023 Breakout Session Leader. Material Agency: Agency of Non-Human Material in Performance. American Theatrical Costume Association Conference (online,
United States).
2022 Poster contribution as part of Eco-Scenography Charette. World Stage Design, Calgary, Alberta.
2022 Accepted Presentation, Exploring Production Methods of Minoan Clothing: Experiential Weaving Lesson Through the Lens of Art History and Theatre. Creative Arts Experience, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
2022 Co-Presenter, VR Lab, USITT, Baltimore, MD.
2021 Invited Presenter, Introducing Flores Juninas fiber art piece in context of the Friere Centennial Celebration opening, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
Awards & Honors:
2026 Winner. Design & Technology Excellence Award. Live Theatre League of Tarrant County. Fort Worth, TX.
2024 Selected via application as a participant in Summer Ethics Seminar: Engaged Learning for Local Food and Environmental Justice. Baylor University, Waco, TX.
2023 Selected via application as a participant in Summer Ethics Seminar: Environmental Humanities. Baylor University, Waco, TX.
2022 Nominated for Best Costume Design for a Play or Musical for Stede Bonnet: a F*cking Pirate Musical. Broadway World Dallas.
2021 Selected via application as a professional participant in the global Eco-Scenography Charrette. Culminating in seed concepts for three short scripts, and presented in poster form at World Stage Design in Calgary.
2021 Selected via application as a recipient of a grant for developing and producing digital performance content to be presented at CultureHub online. Grant from Amphibian Stage, Forth Worth, TX. $3,200 award.
2020 Awarded Summer Sabbatical for 2021 by application for my work on The Body Project. Baylor University. Waco, TX.