Presented by the Queer Studies Research Workshop Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia “Had” the speaker of Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” “but world enough, and time,” he would write a poem. Its subject and addressee would be his beloved, and its form would be the blazon. He would “praise” her “eyes,” “forehead,” “breast,” her […]
Ecocritical Theory Reading Group Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate. 2015. Trans. Jane Billinghurst. Vancouver: Greystone, 2016.
Ecocritical Theory Reading Group T. S. McMillin, The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature. Des Moines: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Shelly Streeby (UCSD, Literature / Ethnic Studies) will present a lecture, “Doing Justice to the Archive: Climate Change in the Octavia E. Butler Papers." We look very much forward to seeing many of you there.
Robert W. Barrett, Jr. (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will present "The Boards Tread Black: Critical Plant Studies and Early English Drama."
The first 2018-19 reading group meeting for the Environmental Humanities Research Workshop. Kellie Robertson, Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). .
Lecture: Kellie Robertson (University of Maryland, College Park, English): “Reading the Moon’s Spots: A Genealogy of Lunar Humanities” Biography: Kellie Robertson writes about medieval literature and culture; her research and teaching are premised on the idea that a return to this earlier intellectual history can help us to better understand our own modern desires and […]
Ecocritical Theory Reading Group—Robert S. Emmett and David E. Nye, The Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction (MIT Press, 2017)
Poor mestizos in northern Peru offer a new way to theorize humanism and sentient landscapes that interact with humans in terms of environmental justice, collective ethics, and health. This model transcends the limits of ontological cosmopolitics and political ecology. Mestizos respond to climate change and environmental devastation and challenge the governance of late liberalism by […]
