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JuPong Lin, Ph.D., is a 2025 graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Environmental Studies and Sustainability at Antioch University, New England.

Dissertation Committee:

Gopal Krishnamurthy, PhD, Committee Chair

Julia Gibson, PhD, Committee Member

Carolyn Dunn, PhD, Committee Member

Keywords

research-creation, arts activism, coloniality / modernity, decoloniality, ecocide, ecocriticism, environmental kin-making, intersectional ecofeminism, occupied Palestine.

Document Type

Dissertation

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

Coloniality/modernity is dying. Rising temperatures over land and sea, the extreme weather of the past decade, rising sea levels, arctic ice loss, and mass extinction are just a few indicators that the world has moved far beyond climate change to climate catastrophe. My arts-informed research takes the view that climate catastrophe, perhaps more accurately described as “collective trauma,” is part of the prevailing story and worldview of modernity, defined by patterns of domination, conquest, extractivism, and capitalism. East Asian and Indigenous worldviews share an emphasis on relationality with the world of nonhuman beings and animist traditions that do not partition the mental, physical and metaphysical (spiritual, energetic, psychic), but rather, regard them as united in what Manulani Meyers calls “holographic epistemology.” I explore forms of artistic engagement that disinvest from coloniality/modernity and bridge those partitions between humans from “the rest of nature,” self from others. My work honors the sacred Earth and explores the medicine of stories to reconnect; the skills of deep listening to and for stories of living and dying well; stories that rise out of the rubble of modernity; how storymaking calls us to earth justice, to hospice the dying world and usher in alter worlds of new solidarities—the Pluriverse. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu).

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ORCID No. 0009-0007-5579-4783

Bio:

JuPong Lin is an independent artist-scholar and cultural worker who dances with horseshoe crabs and makes ceremony with cranes. Her work is dedicated to hospicing the dying colonized world and using the arts and poetics to create futures of joyful interspecies co-becoming. JuPong’s current poetry and socially-engaged art projects focus on shifting the paradigm of conquest and violent occupation by narrating new kinds of stories and worlds in pluriverses (many worlds) that honor beloved heartplaces. JuPong was a faculty member in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College for nearly 20 years before the College closed in 2024. She earned her doctorate in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England with a creative dissertation that responds to ecocide and genocide through transdisciplinary art and poetics.

JuPong is working to grow the peace movement through The PeaceBirds Project, a socially engaged, evolving installation built from paper birds, story circle & deep listening. Mona Shiber & JuPong Lin create space for sharing stories of our families and ancestors--stories of connection with our homelands, of migration, occupation and forced displacement, survival and escape. The project aspires to transform the pain of witnessing global atrocities and to shift grief and loss through making art & gathering stories.

The PeaceBirds Project and inspired the writing of JuPong’s first play, Phoenix in the Holy Land. The play braids together excerpts from the transcripts of the South Africa genocide case against Israel, poetry and the story of three ceasefire activists involved in a small town’s fight to end the assault on Palestinian life. The poets who imbue the play with their humanity include: Refaat Alareer, Dan Almagor, Mahmoud Darwish, Solmaz Sharif, Lisa Sujair Majaj and JuPong Lin. The juxtaposition of legal language describing atrocities in Palestine and the surrounding regions with poetry creates a container for deep listening and courageous conversations.

Select Publications:

Lin, J. (2017). A Yinyang, Ecocritical Fabulation on Doctor Who. In J. M. Canty (Ed.), Ecological and social healing: Multicultural women’s voices (1st ed.). Routledge.

Lin, J., & Neumark, D. (2017). A Brief Overview of ‘Instructions for Being Water: A Performance Score. In Emergency INDEX (Vol. 2017). https://emergencyindex.com/

Lin, J. (2020, October). 1000 Gifts of Decolonial Love and other poems. Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, 11-A Lesson. A Warning. A Flare: Voices from the Pandemic. http://www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com/issues/Oct2020/articles/JuPong-Lin_Poems.html

Lin, J., & Neumark, D. (2022a). Instructions for Being Water: A Performance Score. In R. Boschman & S. L. Jakubec (Eds.), Signs of Water: Community perspectives on water, responsibility, and hope. University of Calgary Press. https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773852348/

Lin, J., & Neumark, D. (2022b). Scores for Climate Justice. In A. Geffen, A. Rosenthal, C. Fremantle, & A. Rahmani (Eds.), Ecoart in action: Activities, case studies, and provocations for classrooms and communities (First edition, pp. 317–372). New Village Press.

Lin, J. (2024). Unsettling the Colonial Shadows of Contemplative Practice. In M. C. Chatman, L. Costa, & D. W. Robinson-Morris (Eds.), Contemplative Practices and Acts of Resistance in Higher Education: Narratives Toward Wholeness (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003416777

Lin, J. (2025). The Doctor Speculates an Alter Whoniverse. In J. Canty (Ed.), Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Ecological-and-Social-Healing-Multicultural-Womens-Voices/Canty/p/book/9781032705170

Weil, L., Goslinga, G., Flyntz, K., & Bergeron, A. (Eds.). (2025). my people sent me a canoe; 1000 Gifts of Decolonial Love. In Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, Dreams Before Extinction. NatureCulture, LLC. https://www.nature-culture.net/dark-matter-women-witnessing

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