This presentation follows critiques of colonial visions of “pristine” and “untouched” landscapes to inquire into other possibilities produced visually. Peres will share and analyze two of her photographic series—Pynk, made with a macro-lens iPhone attachment, and Body/Landscapes, created with a Scanning Electron Microscope—to theorize scale intimacies as a queer rhetorical sightline that sees small moments of connection across species and ecological systems.

Anushka Peres is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is a multidisciplinary rhetorical scholar and photographer, invested in the environmental and social repercussions of colonial conceptualizations of land and sites of possible intervention. Her academic work has been published in The Handbook of Queer Rhetorics and The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics and her photographs have been shown in galleries globally.