Veronica House

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New Books in Environmental Studies · Veronica House, "Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact" (Utah State UP, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

Thank you.

I taught at the University of Colorado Boulder for 15 years and then moved to University of Denver and now am in Boston.

And so it's going to be interesting to talk to you about place-based work after having just moved across the country.

I would say that one of the most interesting things about me maybe is that I don't have a background in food studies.

I started as a literature PhD and took a job in Boulder to teach writing about literature courses online.

I happened in grad school to have taught some service learning courses.

And so my director was interested in having me develop some service learning with other professors at the university.

And really, I feel like food studies found me once I moved to Boulder.

So my love for this work developed right along with my love of the place where I lived.

That's amazing.

You know, one of the great things about teaching writing is you can really teach about anything.

And I think we have a real opportunity as writing and rhetoric scholars and professors to think about the ways in which the local community in which we live inflects the curriculum.

when we listen to conversations and think about issues that are relevant in our communities that can really shape the ways in which we teach and the subjects we teach about.

When I came to Boulder, like I said, I was pretty illiterate when it came to food understanding and knowledge.

And I

started to see how important farming was in Boulder County.

There were conversations going on all the time about supporting local farmers.

This was not something I knew anything about coming from the DC area growing up and then moving to Austin, Texas.

And then suddenly I'm surrounded by farmland and people are talking about how important it is to support local food.

I didn't really understand what that meant.

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