Stephen, that’s GREAT — thank you for sharing both the syllabus and the link to the blog. I’m a fan of asking students in environmental courses to practice at being public intellectuals!

Here’s a blog my own students did for a grad course with some ecological leanings a few years back: http://eboveer.blogspot.com/

This is a fantastic idea!  I just posted a syllabus in the “Files” dropbox for a new course I’m teaching this term at the Univ. of Oregon on Climate Change Fiction.  My students and I are also collaborating on a course blog, which the students recently voted to make public: http://blogs.uoregon.edu/eng104/

If you have a few minutes to check it ou…[Read more]

Thanks Jeffrey–Lowell’s thoughts are EXACTLY on target, and his suggestions in the discussion at the end are incredibly helpful even if we expand them to non-Shakespearean texts (although I feel the seductive pull of Lear and Prospero even as I say this . . .).

Not that it’s an EM syllabus, Karen, but one of my favorite blog posts on integrating early modern literature with ecocrit is this one by Lowell Duckert:

http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2014/08/teaching-literature-in-west-virginian.html

Yes indeed:  I’m trying to come up with one for this coming fall for advanced undergrads on the nonhuman in early modern literature/culture.  It’s proving more complicated to choose primary texts than I thought, since I’m trying to get away from my usual over-reliance on Shakespeare.  Will check back in case anyone has suggestions . . . . and po…[Read more]

Actually … I just placed a syllabus there. Here’s hoping others will follow!

LOVE this idea! If you look to the left of this screen there is a button labeled “FILES.” We could use that as a repository for teaching materials that members are willing to share.

Jeffrey

That sounds like a great idea! I am piloting a new course I’ve developed called Daoism and the Environment and I am combining the Daodejing with more traditional environmental writing including many Native American poets and writers. This grew out of a paper I did last year for an Ecocriticism panel. We’re in our second week of classes and the…[Read more]

I’d be interested to hear papers thinking through the affinities and tensions generated by the convergence of ecocriticism with posthumanism (new materialisms, eg.). This might incorporate the kind of questions Serpil Opperman is imagining…

Hi, Prithviraj,

Agreed with the excellent suggestions in previous posts; and it is a huge topic. See also the just-released 2nd ed of Douglas Robinson’s anthology of texts (Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche; Routledge). At the risk of self-reference, I’d like to mention to a resource coming out soon that might prove helpful,…[Read more]

That’s a big topic. One recent book, focused on the English Renaissance, is English Renaissance Translation Theory (ed. by Neil Rhodes, with Gordon Kendal and Louise Wilson, MHRA, 2013). The introduction provides a nice overview of this trend, at least in England, between about 1485 and 1660.  Another source is the series, The Oxford History of…[Read more]