Rhiar Kanouse, the Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Folklore Studies, presented at the 2024 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference in Montreal, Canada. Her presentation paper, "Farming the Flesh: Cannibalism in Dystopic Fiction," was part of an interdisciplinary seminar titled "Germinating, Tending, Nourishing, Sharing: How We Think Food Now." The paper investigates how the trope of cannibalism is used by authors to critique consumers' relationship to food, particularly in moments of ongoing crisis. CFS celebrates Kanouse's analysis of the narrative trope to address contemporary environmental concerns of farming and food consumption.