MLA Commons | Sophie Christman | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/sophiechristman/activity/ Activity feed for Sophie Christman. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:52:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 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 b965982dac79ec8971d33da4e37876cc Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group Prospective Forum: TC Animal Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861780/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:22:06 -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 098193ec95d4a758716c946e549c44c2 Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861779/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:19:23 -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 0d91554cd535a9a183843a5eab1573df Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861777/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:16:46 -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 4ea3fbb285dad150fb326864837da518 Sophie Christman deposited * Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group MS Screen Arts and Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861776/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:14:05 -0400 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 93b2eec1c8f268b8e2c34d42d2898937 Sophie Christman deposited * Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861775/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:11:59 -0400 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 e67b1cc91c2b355a357176e50866ef51 Sophie Christman deposited * Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861774/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:10:45 -0400 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[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 8ea63c5606b24a218bf40f6922de1af4 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861772/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:08:55 -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 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 ef7b41cccf02bd2f98f7d6e58e6f9304 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861770/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:05:28 -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 f696afa71955448884debd8081615db3 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861769/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:03:17 -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 18193fa29726cccfe903fb3be5ab3938 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC 19th-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861768/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:00:54 -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 aee9d781958d1456f784b496d4143254 Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861701/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:53:29 -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 d561d90b478362452f6665785cb71aaf Sophie Christman deposited * Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861700/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:32:54 -0400 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 37d19ffe83a2ccd0af6175e2628a9cde Sophie Christman deposited Foreword https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861699/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:23:09 -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 42798f6316dc8fe57a6389103583060c Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861698/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:02:14 -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 69af3bb3dcab905db489734ee27d90c7 Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia * https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861696/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 18:31:33 -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 3a32cb3916201d06d1b91bf09b889ffa Sophie Christman's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861694/ Sat, 14 Oct 2023 17:40:08 -0400 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 9e65efd28040c56ed7693e35230fa5e2 Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823102/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:30:38 -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 dc8df9c484bb085184a2ef59d827a5f7 Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823101/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:29:26 -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 830822c11c335527a640adf20dea7d95 Sophie Christman deposited Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823100/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:27:16 -0500 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 42d5986aab6a343764301b7e71fa7db7 Sophie Christman deposited Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm in the group Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823099/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:25:56 -0500 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 a37db09b892ec2e8ef17eb0e46cb2f3d Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823097/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:24:28 -0500 Considering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature?

]]> 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 7732d987057d4a4fb9d1380fdff5f799 Sophie Christman deposited Foreword by Sophie Christman Lavin https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823061/ Sat, 19 Nov 2022 18:14:26 -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 83c692661edfccd4b790e3b3177c1533 Sophie Christman deposited The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823057/ Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:58:52 -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 2ca4a759c896c3395f5253e683908ab4 Sophie Christman deposited Bustin’ Bonaparte: A Post-Apartheid Adaptation of Olive Schreiner’sThe Story of an African Farm https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823050/ Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:51:01 -0500 This article examines how the South African film Bustin’ Bonaparte (2004) presents a
post-apartheid adaptation of Victorian colonialism in Olive Schreiner’s 1883 English novel The Story
of an African Farm. While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing
racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lis…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddb8132874b62a30751bb61721d633a5 Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823045/ Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:23:00 -0500 Considering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature?

]]> 0 681e0b96cea90eca5284ac81750887e6 Sophie Christman's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823042/ Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:02:04 -0500 0 c4173230b450411d48e884d725f0a948 Sophie Christman's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1616826/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:22:54 -0400 0 c31c3da5d47ad80abee7b342321ce70e Sophie Christman's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1580636/ Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:58:01 -0400 0 f0ba15a157ceba844996cec94ce6b2f0 Sophie Christman changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1580635/ Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:16:26 -0400 0 37ba445f352890195b0586ce7e4766dd Sophie Christman-Lavin replied to the topic Discussion in the forum Prospective Forum: TC Geography and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-tc-geography-and-literature/forum/topic/discussion-10/#post-4332 Thu, 29 May 2014 14:17:27 -0400 I support this forum.

]]> 0 cf03f5da278e095fceb2cce7e7420a8a Sophie Christman-Lavin replied to the topic Petition in the forum Prospective Forum: TC Animal Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prospective-forum-tc-animal-studies/forum/topic/petition-11/#post-4327 Thu, 29 May 2014 14:14:21 -0400 I support the creation of this forum.

]]> 0 b7a402d65113dfac46e4a4d286c766a7 Sophie Christman-Lavin replied to the topic Convention Presentations in the forum 2014 MLA Convention http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2014-mla-convention-620574474/forum/topic/convention-presentations/#post-2769 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:35:33 -0500 Hope to see you at the Dickens & Environment panel!

Sophie Christman Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook Department of English

<i>Dickens and the Environment</i> panel

Session # 538, Saturday, January 11,th 12:00 noon—1:15 p.m., O’Hare, Chicago Marriott

<b>“Ecologically Hard Times”</b>

Abstract:

My essay offers an ecocritical reading of Charles Dicke…[Read more]

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