Mitch is a first-year PhD student and settler scholar in the Department of English and Comparative Literature interested in nonnormative representations in rural and environmental literature. He studies how Indigenous and queer ecological thought can help resist and dismantle institutions and structures that cause mental, social, and environmental harm. Originally from rural Alaska, Mitch returned to his home state after graduating from Bowdoin College and living in New York City to work for Outer Coast, an experimental college that reimagines education by centering place-based and Indigenous thought. While working at that institution in Sitka, Alaska—the land of the Sheetʼká ḵwáan Tlingit—he began learning and engaging with Lingít language and thought.
