Amelia Farley

Amelia is a writer and editor based in New York City. Their work traces how infrastructural systems shape social relations through both built environments and atmospheric conditions. Drawing on methodologies from ecocriticism, media studies, and the history of science, Farley's research attends to the extrasensory dimensions of public life—from hospital ventilation systems to enfeebling household chemicals. They are interested in air quality metrics as a simultaneous register of chemical "attunement" and site of political contestation, focusing on environmental illness, healthcare assemblages, “sick buildings," and care work.

At Woodward, they will be working on a novel about an ergonomist whose lung transplant catalyzes “incorporation fantasies”—obsessive psychic encounters with her organ donor that result in the ultimate ergonomic situation: a mutual haunting that embodies the contingent attachment of "being with" an unknowable other.