MLA Commons | TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/ Activity feed for the group, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:08:19 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9a0828f599954a53e60ae5243aa1fa2b Linda Badley uploaded the file: REMINDER: Abstracts due 9/15: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive to TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1926260/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:51:26 -0400 Abstracts (300-400 words) and a short bio are due September 15th, first drafts March 30, 2026, and final drafts October 31, 2026. When needed, deadlines can be extended. Please send abstracts to Linda Badley (lbadley@comcast.net), Jenna Coughlin (coughl3@stolaf.edu), and Gitte Mose (gitte.mose@iln.uio.no). For more information, see below:

]]> 0 b094bfbbe1c1842a331b2fdbe494942d Linda Badley started the topic CFP: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-future-library-critical-approaches-to-an-unseen-archive/ Sun, 11 May 2025 18:35:21 -0400 Jenna Coughlin, Gitte Mose, and I are excited to be co-editing a collection of essays about Future Library. Please consider submitting a proposal and share the attached call with colleagues who may be interested in contributing.

]]> 0 7583e36ca6b4738ea6c1e1f207c81ec5 Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP ACLA Seminar Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-acla-seminar-literature-resource-extraction-and-settler-colonialism-2/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:39:48 -0400 We are seeking papers for our ACLA seminar on Literature, Resource Extraction and Settler Colonialism for the 2025 ACLA conference (held online).

We invite papers that consider literary responses to various forms of resource extraction within settler colonial states. Extraction was and remains central to settler colonial projects around the…[Read more]

]]> 0 973069b14dbaf2b127bbe76d5c2f1564 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889189/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:08 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c4dc6f3e54c4b336c421dcdd6815292 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889185/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:11 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 890c526507d598544127f4a3b7896aa2 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887293/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:08:31 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3c724d6cbfdee489e425901f37f8517 Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887207/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:12:50 -0400 Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

]]> 0 cb348e5157f4c3a6115d5a712af2fa75 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887202/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:04:35 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 510177aa4a2c57ecd382b3bf9e133aff Sarah Benharrech started the topic Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/enlightening-encounters-confronting-the-invisibility-of-the-non-humans/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:19:56 -0500 The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies- 18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed session:

Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans, the less-than-humans and the-more-than humans, in the long 18th century.

This panel invites papers that explore en…[Read more]

]]> 0 4219f23c1f32b787bc90c80531a4e50a Allison Carruth started the topic MLA25 CFPs for Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities Forum in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/mla25-cfps-for-ecocriticism-environmental-humanities-forum/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:25:37 -0500 The Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum EC has submitted three CFPs, one in collaboration with the Caribbean Studies forum to the MLA 2025 CFP submission site.

The calls are below with instructions for how to submit an abstract.

1. Forms of Water, Forms of Life

This panel invites blue humanities perspectives on literary forms,…[Read more]

]]> 0 91b33a0fa8702ef55c575e4b2f5696b5 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/mla-2025-cfp-entomological-turns-2/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:04:14 -0500 From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5bf168a894a24e940adea28d8f76e36 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870901/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:04:04 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3d566fe570426151f7cfe79b2014e08 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870892/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:09:41 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 94a6d486e5c9197e75846fb9c807dcb5 Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861781/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:22:07 -0400 This article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7b77bd5a7021d26868afbcaf9ffe879 Sophie Christman deposited Foreword in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861773/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:10:09 -0400 A STEAM-informed humanities’ essay describing the theoretical concept of “ecophobia”-a notion put forward in Simon Estok’s theoretical text The Ecophobia Hypothesis (Routledge 2018) that describes the systemic human fear of nature.

]]> 0 3215ad93fe15ae8e08e28b8475326962 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861771/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:08:20 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c7570b2f26987384dbc3c36994dbefe Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia * in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861767/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:12 -0400 Considering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature? I claim that conceptually linking the Constitutional protections enabled by the American civil rights movement to an emerging civil rights of nature would enable the rapid transition away from ecophobic attitudes toward…[Read more]

]]> 0 77e56b74d4a129ecf0f1192ddb87dd82 Sophie Christman deposited Foreword by Sophie Christman Lavin in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823107/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:34:25 -0500 “People acquire phobias,” evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson observed, to “abrupt and intractable aversions, to the objects and circumstances that threaten humanity in natural environments” (The Diversity of Life 351). This often overlooked observation, conceptualized by an evolu­tionary biologist whose canon launched the Western corpus of…[Read more]

]]> 0 eaea391df06e475d5a8a3a2bc8221aa9 Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823103/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:32:40 -0500 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article traces the developme…[Read more]

]]> 0 37c5408f27ee8ceaed20f180fdbc65de Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823096/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:23:39 -0500 Considering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature?

]]> 0 68fb9aa8ad7ac8e8682975fb4fd5dc1c Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783369/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 03:55:06 -0400 Johannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea73c8e8c56897accc7ca184ece7bbb9 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771063/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:28:48 -0500 The Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b3063f3b1fb11f45c574f95721ef7bc Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753542/ Sun, 03 Oct 2021 03:55:41 -0400 This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffed95eed51f50181e93f44696784755 Steven Swarbrick deposited "The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac" in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1752174/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 02:24:17 -0400 Building on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).

]]> 0 2e83b54057c017042f7bb031b663df22 Susan Larson deposited Nature, the Monumental and Urban Technological Networks in Víctor Moreno's Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018) / Naturaleza, lo monumental y las redes tecnológicas urbanas en Edificio España (2012) y La ciudad oculta (2018) de Víctor Moreno in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1751967/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 03:54:53 -0400 If we affirmatively answer Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw’s invitation to think beyond the ‘fetishization of the modern city’ as the pinnacle of human-centered progress and achievement in order to consider the urban as both a process of transformed nature and the metabolic and social transformation of nature through human labor, the city becom…[Read more]

]]> 0 7948c3ed32f947ee938dd9a67db83062 Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1749992/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 03:53:35 -0400 ABSTRACT
The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more]

]]> 0 9cb5549bc1abc52d94d033fdb705cb89 Carla Sassi deposited Humanities Special Issue "Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature" in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1729879/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:32:15 -0500 Special issue of Humanities exploring expressions and registrations of environmental culture and the eco-critical imagination in 21st century Scottish literature and culture. Open access.

]]> 0 cb66ddfe309e870674efa22003cbc2a1 Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721811/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 03:49:16 -0500 In Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]

]]> 0 902d8e0c2938bb3db23cb0dea5d99c01 Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1720174/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:31:26 -0500 Introduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.

]]> 0 dff53d60ab3df02cef380eabad7cb7b0 Pedro Lopes de Almeida started the topic CFP: Leaky Ontologies - ACLA 2021 in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-leaky-ontologies-acla-2021/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:19:51 -0400 “Stuff leaks through such that the real manifests not just as gaps and inconsistencies in reality.” Tim Morton, Humankind

In an increasingly compartmentalized, consolidated time, leaking incidents keep surfacing from the backdrop of our human reality designed for smooth functioning and come to shape our age. From the leakings of early steam boi…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bad81ddeafea53535398141ab2df865 Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter's Tale in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1707309/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:27:20 -0400 Shakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5288c8123471258227205c017536a7b Steven Swarbrick deposited The Life Aquatic: Liquid Poetics and the Discourse of Friendship inThe Faerie Queene in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685720/ Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:31:40 -0400 From Michel de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship” to Jacques Derrida’s rearticulation of the former in The Politics of Friendship, scholars both early modern and modern have sought ways to address the fluid co-mixture of bodies from which the discourse of friendship can and does emerge. More recently still, new materialist thinkers of ontolog…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4c8d42c1b1b521b5ad36b7768b754dc Steven Swarbrick deposited In Anthropocene Air: Deleuze's Encounter with Shakespeare in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685577/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:31:30 -0400 A reading of Shakespeare and Deleuze on the subject of Anthropocene air. Keywords: endurance, climate change, fossil capitalism, carbon ghosts, Hamlet.

]]> 0 b8be0d8374056b93ce37050889322e06 Steven Swarbrick deposited Shakespeare’s Blush, or “the Animal” in Othello in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685177/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:41:50 -0400 This essay examines how the rhetoric of animalization in Shakespeare’s Othello compels us to think early modern categories of race in connection with early modern discourses of “human” versus “animal.” Beginning with Shakespeare’s representation of Iago, I suggest that it is the potential for sameness conditioned by Iago’s counterfactua…[Read more]

]]> 0 e537b9bf408f601ebbb05edeb8682ff6 Steven Swarbrick deposited Unworking Milton: Steps to a georgics of the mind in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682436/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:35:52 -0400 Traditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed t…[Read more]

]]> 0 fcd1b6edeb4f8d9aa81609af750bbf94 Steven Swarbrick deposited Tempestuous Life: Ralegh's Ocean in Ruins in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682432/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:28:03 -0400 Turning to Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614), I reframe such biopolitical factors as Ralegh’s “dissability” around a concept that has less to do with human world-making and more to do with the “states of exception” (Giorgio Agamben) under which inhuman agencies come to matter for world history (of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d25c30d7d426213ab0b6189532cb0fad Steven Swarbrick deposited Object-Oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682117/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:35:19 -0400 Though the verbal icon has a long and robust multisensory history extending beyond Milton, my goal here is to challenge ableist readings of Milton’s poetry by linking his poetic ekphrasis to the politics and aesthetics of disability.

]]> 0 fe3f9c2b80c2fe459d6b72c55f952d2f Steven Swarbrick deposited Nature's Queer Negativity: Between Barad and Deleuze in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682110/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:25:37 -0400 This essay offers a critique of the vitalist turn in queer and ecological theory, here represented by the work of Karen Barad. Whereas Barad advances an image of life geared towards meaningful connection with others, human and nonhuman, Deleuze advances an a-signifying ontology of self-dismissal. The point of this essay isn’t to separate their t…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e67f5996c1f4926f43eb614d2348ac8 Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1678217/ Wed, 12 Feb 2020 03:50:47 -0500 This paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f83ef90eed8becbd01fd1f6d6ee017d Anita Harris Satkunananthan started the topic CFP: Interrogating Folklore and the Literary Fairy-tale in the Anthropocene in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-interrogating-folklore-and-the-literary-fairy-tale-in-the-anthropocene-6/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:21:39 -0500 Apologies, a repost because the formatting was messed up on my previous post!

 

Dear Everyone,

My co-editors and I will be submitting a book proposal on the topic above to a university press. Please do consider contributing a chapter!

 

Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2020

Full name / name of organization: Dr. Anita Harris Satkunananthan,…[Read more]

]]> 0 97b06ab9b678c89b71a7c933059f9b35 Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669432/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:26:48 -0500 This article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1c3eeaa9efaa846cba529451460a01a Katrina Dunn started the topic Reimagining Theatre Education in the Era of Climate Crisis in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/reimagining-theatre-education-in-the-era-of-climate-crisis/ Sun, 20 Oct 2019 04:05:17 -0400 Please consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues.

What might we teach Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg if she were to choose post-secondary education in theatre? As she says, she has no reason to fear speaking the truth: what approach to acting and theatre-making might we take with…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fc57b9e2300772d88b2c2288c82f88d Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP -- Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-edited-collection-the-enlightened-nightscape-1700-1830-2/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:38:21 -0400 Dear colleagues:

Please consider contributing to the proposed volume* The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.

Call for Proposals
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Traditional…[Read more]

]]> 0 f694a9a22c927a12b1dd3248b169af5d Tom White deposited Climate, Power and Possible Futures on the Banks of the Humber Estuary in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657100/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 03:48:43 -0400 Paper for Session 10-L, Oecologies II: Terraqueous Transformations: Land, Water and Power in Early/Modern Contexts.

]]> 0 e74b6fd78e0d742833865a76e1d82a64 Juliane Braun deposited Introduction to America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641351/ Sat, 01 Jun 2019 03:57:42 -0400 Introduction to America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment

]]> 0 0c19f24d6e1df093991803be737b7420 Kay Sohini deposited To the Stars and Beyond: Perceptions on The Starry Night in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1638401/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:25:33 -0400 Creative non-fiction/semi-academic reflective piece on seeing Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night for the first time in person at the Museum of Modern Arts.

]]> 0 f2ebe8b460c14ea826a29a9bfca7e4e1 Tom White deposited Climate, Power, and Possible Futures, from the Banks of the Humber Estuary in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637938/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 03:48:43 -0400 Nayan Kulkarni’s Blade, Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Raft of the Medusa, and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s Quicksand were exhibited in Hull during its year as the 2017 UK City of Culture. These artworks provide the impetus for an article that moves between the local, national, and global, in order to connect visual culture, climate politics, and quest…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b3507d02dbf78be16569e1e9ba8e7b4 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635533/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 04:00:30 -0400 Exploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]

]]> 0 db6416ef919dd1c41ed2c3ab50d86880 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634732/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:39:59 -0400 Explores the invisible man, in Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man,” as borrowing upon associations of patriarchal maleness, in the sense Ann Douglas in her “Terrible Honesty” argues 20s modern’s did, to secure freedom from feelings of entrapment by maternal figures, whose near-proximity to him is expressed in the text as often incestuous, gross;…[Read more]

]]> 0 6282ea641092ac78667835307992f092 Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627241/ Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:35:21 -0500 Front matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century

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