Janneane Blevins is a Benjamin Franklin Fellow pursuing a Ph.D. in Cinema & Media Studies. She has a professional background in design and communications.
Janneane is conducting research to examine how nature is portrayed in media, and how humans separate from, embody, and metabolize nature through media. Her work is comparative and multidisciplinary, drawing on ecocritical inquiry and environmental histories. Prior to Penn, she completed her MFA at Pratt Institute where she explored interspecies communication futures through our relationships with plants.
Janneane was born and raised in Indiana. She helped run Printtext, a bookstore and community space, where she published cultural broadsheets, designed album covers, and made books about soundscape ecologies. Recent projects include Stations: Listening to the Deep Earth (Jap Sam Books, 2022) commissioned by the Anchorage Museum and National Geographic Society, and Recipes for a Warmer World (Fruit & Rot, 2024).