Ariel Kroon is a PhD candidate in the department of EFS. She studies narratives of crisis and survival in Canadian post-apocalyptic SF texts published from 1948-1989, evaluating their usefulness for interrupting the dominant imagination of the future: the familiar “Hollywood” depiction of a world where violent fascism and conservatism thrive in the midst of the dead or dying natural landscape, blasted by nuclear fallout, or ravaged by disease, or torn apart by war, or some combination of the three. Her research is becoming more relevant as time wears on, fuelling her determination to highlight alternative, non-toxic narratives in order to equip humans to imagine a more sustainable and just future into being. She has published in Canadian Literature and Glass Buffalo, worked with Just Powers to document the energy transition in Edmonton, and combats apocalyptic Anthropocene anxiety via composting