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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited Strange Weather in King Lear in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 5
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, HiltonPresiding: Allison Carruth, UCLA
1. “The Dark Green: Plants, Cli- Fi, and the Anthropocene,”Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University
2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate Change in Mexican…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe deadline is approaching!
In order to participate in the 2018 Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit your abstract of 250-300 words to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18, 2017.
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Caren Irr deposited The Space of Genre in the New Green Novel in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn examination of spatial themes in the emerging genre of environmental fiction. Originally presented as a talk at the Futures of American Literature event at Uppsala University (Sweden).
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Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.
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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s “Beneath the Roses” in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Lit in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on "Environment, Ecology, Clim in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWe invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2018.
The detailed CFP and further Special Issue…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) on “Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature”
We invite submissions of abstracts of 300 words by 15th January 2018. Please note that contributors to this special issue will not be required to pay any article processing charge. The deadline for manuscript sub…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Joseph Campana posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for postdocs
Rice University, 2018-19: “Waste Histories and Futures.”
http://hrc.rice.edu/node/709
Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2017Rice University’s Humanities Research Center will host the seminar “Waste: Histories and Futures” in 2018-19, co-organized by Joseph Campana (English), Cymene Howe (Anthropology), and Dominic Boyer…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers
Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
ACLA Seminar, 3/29-4/1, 2018 at UCLAThis American Comparative Literature Association seminar invites papers addressing life forms that have been largely neglected by the nonhuman turn, in its more immediate focus on animals, objects, and environmental forces or…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi everyone, just wondering what to do to make this site of greater use to membership. All suggestions and ideas welcome!
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Let us know if we can help here! It might be great to use your group (or site) to promote all the ecocriticism / environmental humanities sessions at the convention, collect presentations and slides from presenters (share them with the group from CORE), or promote other events relevant to the group through the “Events” calendar up above!
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Hatem Akil started the topic Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities – MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: contexts and environmental flashpoints:…[Read more]
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Kaitlin Mondello started the topic CFP MLA 2018: "Dark Ecology" in 19th-century British Literature in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Ecological Thought</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>, Timothy Morton defines his eponymous title as “the thinking of interconnectedness” (1,7), with the recognition that this interconnection also “has a dark side” (EWN 184). This idea of “dark ecology”…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic MLA 2018, NYC–Call for Working Group Participants in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPosted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.
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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.
The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic CFPs for THREE ecological panels for MLA 18 NYC in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease follow this link to access all three, or see below.
<b>SITE SPECIFICS</b>
How does place <i>matter</i> and <i>insist</i>, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference? The main focus of this roundtable is upon its NYC environs (at any point in time, and widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts,…[Read more] - Load More