October 18, 9-9:50 am, Clemens 436: Reading Group—Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, eds. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts of the Anthropocene / Monsters of the Anthropocene. (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

November 22, 2019, 9:00-9:50 am, 436 Clemens: Reading Group, Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins, Biology under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health (NYU Press / Monthly Review Press, 2007)

In preparation for the March 30th lecture, the reading group will meet to discuss Yanoula Athanassakis' Environmental Justice in Contemporary American Narrative (Routledge, 2017)

Yanoula Athanassakis (NYU), “Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies” Yanoula Athanassakis is Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Co-founder of the NYU Environmental Humanities Series at New York University, and Instructor in English and Environmental Studies. Her research and teaching interests include American literature, the environmental humanities, animal studies, food studies, race and ethnic studies, gender […]

In anticipation of Teresa Shewry's April 16th lecture, the reading group will meet to discuss Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received a PhD in Literature from Duke University and a BA in English and Japanese […]

April 16, 2020, 4pm, 306 Clemens Hall): LECTURE— Teresa Shewry (UC Santa Barbara, English), “Laughter’s Futures: Literary Humor and Climate Change in Australasia” Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received a PhD in Literature from Duke University and a BA in English and Japanese from Victoria University, New Zealand. […]

Joseph Taylor (University of Alabama, Huntsville, English), “Medieval Ecomaterialism: The Politics of Ruins.” Zoom invitations will be emailed about two weeks before the event. Visit the Environmental Humanities Research Workshop webpage for contact information to subscribe to their communications.

Isabel Sobral Campos (Northeastern, College of Social Sciences and Humanities), “The Holy Fly: Deep Listening and Lyric Being." Zoom invitiations will be emailed about two weeks before the event.

Teresa Shewry, Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2015):

LECTURE — Teresa Shewry (UC Santa Barbara, English), “"Before the Sun Rises: Estrangement, Time Lapse and Poetry of Dark Sky Reserves.” Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received a PhD in Literature from Duke University and a BA in English and Japanese from Victoria University, New Zealand. Her research […]