Ecogrief and the Premodern Environment

Poster for Ecogrief and the Premodern Environment

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The Oecologies Research Cluster presents:

Ecogrief and the Premodern Environment


Thursday December 15, 2022 | 11:00am PST

As the “modern” climate crisis intensifies, scholars, students, and the public alike seek different modes of environmental approaches, philosophies, and proclivities. As such, the entanglements and connections between the premodern and modern literary, historical, and textual cultures should be considered, discussed, reimagined, and cultivated. As we continue to explore, consider, and experience widespread ecological disasters, crises, and broad environmental change, creating dialogues that consider approaches for articulating ecogrief and anxiety is critical for considering the natural world and human engagement with it. This panel will present understandings of, and cultural, textual, and literary approaches on, the articulation of ecogrief.

Panelists:

Chris Barrett is Associate Professor of English and Dean's Fellow in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Louisiana State University, where she joined the faculty in 2012 after completing her doctoral degree in English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include early modern English literature,  poetry and poetics, ecocriticisms, and geocritical approaches to literature. Her published works--recognized by a Rainmaker Award in 2018--include the book Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety (Oxford University Press, 2018), as well as articles and essays on forests, maps, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, butterflies, fire, birdsong, ether, and more. She is currently at work on two book projects, about early modern trees and about the poetics of the obvious.
 
Heide Estes is Professor of English at Monmouth University. Her publications include Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination (Amsterdam University Press, 2017) and, with Nicole Guenther Discenza, Writing the World in Early Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She is the founding director of the scholarly group Medieval Ecocriticisms and editor, with Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar and Michael J. Warren, of the journal Medieval Ecocriticisms, published by Medieval Institute Publications/De Gruyter. Dr. Estes is currently a Visiting Researcher at the University of Bonn, Germany.
 
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