Scholarship and Biography

Professor Irr teaches courses on theory, film, media, and fiction since 1900. She is currently writing on environmental aesthetics and philosophy.

Honors

Plant Humanities Virtual Faculty Research Fellowship
Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), 06/2024
Fulbright Lectureship in Czech Republic
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 2003-2004
Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholarship
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 1994-1995
Summer Seminar Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1999

Organizational Affiliations

Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities, Department of English, Brandeis University

Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities, Environmental Studies Program, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Environmental Studies Program, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in Film, Television and Interactive Media, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in History of Ideas, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Master of Arts Program in Comparative Humanities, Brandeis University

Education

Duke University
Ph.D.
Duke University
M.A.
Swarthmore College
B.A.