Note: This survey is no longer active. Thanks so much to Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale, for notifying me some time ago about a survey he has developed to find out who reads climate change fiction … Read more
See more at the University of Calgary Press. Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to … Read more
Thanks to Prof. Dr. Serpil Oppermann, EASLCE, European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment for the following news: November 15, 2014. Panel proposed for the ASLE Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23-27, 2015, University of Idaho, Moscow, … Read more
Copyright and written by Stephen Siperstein “Stories are much bigger than ideologies. In that is our hope” – Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto Eugene, OR—In my backyard garden this morning the bees are hurrying through the last lavender blossoms … Read more
Copyright and written by Gregers Andersen French philosopher Paul Ricoeur once wrote: “The first way human beings attempt to understand and to master the ‘manifold’ of the practical field is to give themselves a fictive representation of it.” [1] If … Read more
