Lexington’s Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series just got its own catalogue, which tells us the series is doing well. As is Wilfrid Laurier’s Environmental Humanities series, Routledge’s series of the same, Bloomsbury’s Environmental Cultures, and others in the same vein. I can hardly keep up. Note: The original post included an incorrect link to the Lexington series. […]
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Ecocritical blooms
Posted in Academe, tagged book series, Ecocritical Theory and Practice, environmental humanities on July 23, 2016 | 2 Comments »
State of the Eco-Humanities, Take 1
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, EcoCulture, tagged academic initiatives, conferences, eco-arts, eco-humanities, engaged scholarship, environmental humanities on June 8, 2016 | 4 Comments »
This post is the first of a series of reflections on the state of the Environmental Humanities, or Eco-Humanities, and of where this interdisciplinary field might be headed. A note on terminology: The term “Environmental Humanities” has caught on in ways that “Eco-Humanities” and other variations have not, but the debate between them has hardly occurred, […]
… And what I’m reading
Posted in Academe, tagged books, readings on March 24, 2016 | 2 Comments »
Some books I’ve recently received and/or am currently reading… If you’d like to review any of them for this blog, let me know. And if there are others published in the last year that should be on this list, let me know that too (in the comments).
Indiana sale
Posted in Xyz... on March 14, 2016 | 1 Comment »
My book Claiming Sacred Ground is available for half price from the publisher, Indiana University Press, all this week. But then you can always get a copy from me for at least as good a deal as that, as I still have some kicking around at the office. (Here’s how it relates to my later work.)
Eco-humanities glossolalia
Posted in Academe, tagged eco-humanities, environmental humanities on September 18, 2015 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just come across the earliest outline I wrote for the course I’m currently teaching (in its third incarnation), “Environmental Literature, Arts, and Media.” The course has also turned into a book project I’m working on, which will be a thematic primer to the environmental arts and humanities. Both course and book have changed shape so […]
Glass half full…
Posted in Xyz... on June 8, 2015 | 3 Comments »
Two news bits from the past week or so: (1) The UN has announced that the proportion of people who are chronically undernourished in the world has fallen by nearly half — from 23.3% to 12.9% — over the last 25 years. Only a handful of countries — Haiti, North Korea, Zambia, Namibia, and the Central African Republic […]
Verbing the title
Posted in Xyz..., tagged words on April 22, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
I just noticed, for the first time, how many of my publication titles begin with a verb in present continuous (or progressive) mode: words like claiming, stirring, stoking, opening, orchestrating, coloring, weathering, de/composing, re-examining, teaching… If I include subtitles, I get mapping, theorizing, stalking, collapsing, crafting. And when I add talk and conference paper titles, there’s screening, greening, […]
33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon, revisited)
Posted in Academe, EcoCulture, tagged ASLE, canon, canonism & anti-canonism, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, environmental studies, John Lane on April 9, 2015 | 9 Comments »
The following is a significantly revised version of an article I posted to the Indications blog (and etc) five and a half years ago. I was curious to see how much of it still holds (a lot, I think), so I’ve revisited it and expanded its proposed sort-of-canon, in the second part of what follows, into a list of […]
Foucault quote quiz
Posted in Xyz..., tagged Foucault on March 20, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Quick quiz: What U.S. city did Michel Foucault pen these words about?
OAD update
Posted in Academe, SpiritMatter, tagged anthropology, Cuba, OAD, ontology, Santeria, Todd Ramon Ochoa on March 12, 2015 | 1 Comment »
That stands for “Ontology Across the Disciplines,” which is the UVM faculty (and grad student) reading group that I said I’d keep readers updated on. I’ve been a bit remiss with that, as we had a meeting 3 weeks ago and will be meeting again at 4 p.m. today. Here is a one-page handout (click for PDF) I’ve sent […]
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