Wendy is an Environmental Humanities researcher and teacher, with a joint lecturer appointment in Religious Studies at UCSB, where she is teaching courses in Catholic studies. Her research and teaching focuses on the polycrisis of climate change, the ongoing extinction event, and ethical ir/responsibility through the lenses of Continental philosophy, literature, Anthropocene studies, and multispecies studies. She earned her PhD in Religious Studies at UCSB, with a dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche's religious ambivalence. She is the editor of Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene (2024), and lives permanently in Istanbul, Turkey.