Matthias Klestil is Postdoctoral Assistant in American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His research focuses on African American literature and culture, ecocriticism, and narrative theory.

• 1. Introduction: African American Environmental Knowledge at Niagara.- Part I Foundations: Antebellum African American Environmental Knowledge.- 2. Claiming (through) Space: Topographies of Enslavement, the Literary Heterotopia of the Underground Railroad, and the Co-Agency of the Non-human.- 3. Resisting (through) the Eye: Antebellum Visual Regimes, the Slave Narrative’s Rhetoric of Visibility, and African American Strategic Pastoral.- 4. Negotiating (through) the Skin: The Black Body, Pamphleteering, and African American Writing against Biological Exclusion.- Part II Transformations: African American Environmental Knowledge from Reconstruction to Modernity.- 5. Transforming Space: Nature, Education, and Home in Charlotte Forten and William Wells Brown.- 6. Transforming Vision: The Pastoral, the Georgic, and Evolutionary Thought in Booker T. Washington.- 7. Transforming the Politics of the Black Body: Trans-corporeality, Epistemological Resistance, and Spencerism in Charles W. Chesnutt.- 8. Conclusion: African American Environmental Knowledge at Yellowstone.

Matthias Klestil is Postdoctoral Assistant in American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His research focuses on African American literature and culture, ecocriticism, and narrative theory.

• 1. Introduction: African American Environmental Knowledge at Niagara.- Part I Foundations: Antebellum African American Environmental Knowledge.- 2. Claiming (through) Space: Topographies of Enslavement, the Literary Heterotopia of the Underground Railroad, and the Co-Agency of the Non-human.- 3. Resisting (through) the Eye: Antebellum Visual Regimes, the Slave Narrative’s Rhetoric of Visibility, and African American Strategic Pastoral.- 4. Negotiating (through) the Skin: The Black Body, Pamphleteering, and African American Writing against Biological Exclusion.- Part II Transformations: African American Environmental Knowledge from Reconstruction to Modernity.- 5. Transforming Space: Nature, Education, and Home in Charlotte Forten and William Wells Brown.- 6. Transforming Vision: The Pastoral, the Georgic, and Evolutionary Thought in Booker T. Washington.- 7. Transforming the Politics of the Black Body: Trans-corporeality, Epistemological Resistance, and Spencerism in Charles W. Chesnutt.- 8. Conclusion: African American Environmental Knowledge at Yellowstone.