An Interview with Susie O’Brien Conducted via email between February 3 and March 1, 2014

This interview, conducted by email between Susie O’Brien and Lisa Szabo-Jones, discusses issues of nationalism, localism, food movements/security and indigeneity, and the merging of postcolonialism with ecocriticism. In recounting the various lines that O’Brien’s research takes, the interview follows the development of her innovative scholarly thinking. The discussion explores the ways in which her projects range from the local to the national to the global and unsettle clear delineations between geographical and political spheres as well as disciplinary fields. O’Brien comments on the challenges, benefits, and necessities of working within a postcolonial ecocritical framework.