Publications

We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition, edited by Lisa Moore & Sheena Wilson, Memorial University Press, 2025.

Bringing together academics, scientists, creative writers, visual artists, lawyers, and policy makers, We Were In It is a collaborative effort to attack the problem of climate crisis from very different backgrounds and perspectives, through fiction.

Books

Moore, Lisa and Sheena Wilson. “Author’s Note: We Were In It.” Energy Humanities, 3 November 2025.

Moore, Lisa and Sheena Wilson, editors. We Were In It: Stories about Energy Transition. Memorial University Press, 2025.

After Oil Collective. Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, editors. Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. University of Minnesota Press. 2022.

Wilson, Sheena, Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman, editors. Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.

After Oil. West Virginia University Press. 2016. [Collaborative Monograph.]

Wilson, Sheena and Diana Davidson, editors. Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood. Demeter Press. 2014. Read an excerpt here.

Wilson, Sheena, editor. Joy Kogawa: Essays on Her Works. Guernica. 2011.

Chilewska, Anna and Sheena Wilson, editors. Writing After the Gaze: The Rupture of the Historical. Milan V. Dimič Institute for Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies. 2007.

Select Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Book Reviews:

Epp Buller, Rachel and Sheena Wilson. “Climate Moves: Reaching for Threshold Knowledge One Walk at a Time.” Local Environment, 2025.

Wilson, Sheena. “Survival of the Most Collaborative: Climate Justice as a Logics for Flows of Air.” Materiality of Air. Ed. Tatiana Konrad. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2025, pp. 60-80.

Wilson, Sheena. “Why is intersectional agility Greta Thunberg’s rhetorical superpower?” Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy. Ed. Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel. West Virginia University Press, 2025.

Wilson, Sheena. “Hacking the Techno-Transition: The Possibilities of Deep Energy Literacy.” Sociálni Studia/Social Studies, 2022, pp. 29-53.

Wilson, Sheena. “Solarities or Solarculture: Bright or Bleak Energy Futures and the E. L. Smith Solar Farm.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 120, no. 2, 2021, pp. 137-150.

Loveless, Natalie and Sheena Wilson. “Reflections on collaboration as performance and the performance of collaboration in an age of COVID and climate crisis.” Canadian Theatre Review. Ed. Jimena Ortuzar. Summer 2021, Vol. 187: 86-90.

Wilson, Sheena. “Trafficking in Petronormativities: At the Intersections of Petrofeminism, Petroclonialism, and Petrocapitalism.” Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change. Edited by Tatiana Porokova-Konrad. West Virginia University Press. 2020.

Bellamy, Brent Ryan and Sheena Wilson. “Shikata ga nai.” An Ecotopian Lexicon, edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, 2019, http://ecotopianlexicon.com

Wilson, Sheena. “Energy Imaginaries: Feminist and Decolonial Futures.” Materialism and the Critique of  Energy. Edited by Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti. Chicago and Edmonton: MCMPrime Press. 2018.

Wilson, Sheena. “Action-A-Day.” WordPress, http://deepenergyliteracy.csj.ualberta.ca/

Wilson, Sheena. “New Stories, New Knowledge: Research Creation.” Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, edited by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017, Montreal, Quebec, pp. 477-479.

Wilson, Sheena, Imre Szeman and Adam Carlson. “On Petrocultures, Or Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything.” Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, edited by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017, Montreal, Quebec, pp. 3-20.

Wilson, Sheena. “Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual Relations.” Energy Humanities Reader. Edited by Dominic Boyer and Imre Szeman. John Hopkins University Press. 2017.

Wilson, Sheena. “Gender.” Fueling Culture:  Energy, History, Politics. Edited by Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger.  New York: Fordham UP. 2017.

Wilson, Sheena. “PetroMama.” New Maternalisms. Premiered: May 13, 2016. (5 mins).

Wilson, Sheena. “Petro-Mama: Mothering in a Crude World.” Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood, edited by Sheena Wilson and Diana Davidson, Demeter Press, 2014, Bradford, Ontario, pp. 307-314.

Szeman, Imre, Sheena Wilson et al. “On the Energy Humanities: Contributions from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts to Understanding Energy Transition and Energy Impasse.” SSHRC Imagining Canada’s Future initiative, Knowledge Synthesis Grants: Energy and Natural Resources, 13 May 2016.

Wilson, Sheena. “Shake Up, Not Shake-Down: Comparative Literature as a Twenty-First Century Discipline.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, vol. 41, no. 2, 2014, pp. 226-229.

Wilson, Sheena. “Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petro-Sexual Relations.” Oil Culture, edited by Daniel Worden and Ross Barrett, University of Minnesota Press, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 244-266.

Pendakis, Andrew and Sheena Wilson. “Sight, Site, Cite: Oil in the Field of Vision.” Sighting Oil: Imaginations, vol. 4, no. 1, Fall 2012, pp. 4-5.

Wilson, Sheena. “Oil Ethics.” American Book Review, vol. 33, no. 2, 2012, pp. 8-9.

Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. “Alberta’s Tar Sands and Aboriginal Communities, A Mediated Production.” Emigrazione, 9 April 2011, http://www.emigrazione-notizie.org/articles.asp?id=412

Journal Editing

Imaginations

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/ Revue d’Études Interculturelles de l’Image. http://imaginations.glendon.yorku.ca (Editor-in-Chief 2011–2018)