In Unseasonable, Sarah Dimick links accounts of shifting seasons across the globe, tracing how knowledge of climate change is constructed, conveyed, and amplified through literature.

Sarah Dimick is assistant professor of English at Northwestern University.

Heather Houser, author of Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data:
After reading Unseasonable, you cannot but see your local environments as arrhythmic and out of seasonal joint. Dimick's deft readings offer a complex vocabulary for capturing these novel "pulses" of environmental time and powerfully remind readers that literature cements seasonality in collective memory now as it has for ages. As climate crisis and literature encode new memories, we need—and Dimick provides—better accounts of the "when" of climate justice.

Hiʻilei Hobart, author of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment:
In this moving and urgent book, Sarah Dimick leads readers through a literary and phenological analysis of climate crisis. Taking the seasons as the rhythms by which we come to know our places in the world, she shows us how arrhythmias have come to disrupt what was once predictable, translatable, and reliable. Traversing the local and the global, the privileged and the vulnerable, the poetic and the pragmatic, Unseasonable names the unease of our times: confused migrations, early blooms, and coastal floods as they are translated into the collective memories we keep as environmental poem and prose.

Stephanie LeMenager, professor of English and environmental studies, University of Oregon:
Sarah Dimick's Unseasonable contributes fine-grained literary analysis and historical insight to a question pursued by the foremost scholars of the climate humanities (Mike Hulme, Kyle Powys Whyte): how climate crisis denaturalizes colonial or global notions of time. Beautiful writing, a personal and yet authoritative voice, and keen clarity mark this exceptional book.

Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor:
Unseasonable is a bold, revelatory book—environmental humanities scholarship at its very finest. Sarah Dimick blends her humanities expertise with an attentiveness to the science of rapid climate change in a work that is global and interdisciplinary in reach. She astutely maps how climate breakdown’s disturbance of seasonal norms unsettles literary and cultural forms. With rare eloquence and conceptual originality, Dimick demonstrates how climate arrhythmia is altering the baseline rhythms of aesthetic forms. Unseasonable is a profound meditation on the altered meanings—in the biophysical and aesthetic realms—of environmental time. A tour de force.