can i be an ecocritic if i don't like nature poetry
February 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
can i be an ecocritic if i don't like nature poetry
Hello, old friends & new followers. Quick intro - I’m an environmental humanities... scholar? ecocritic? person? Interdisciplinary something. My current work is on practices & imaginaries of seed saving, mostly in private gardens; my PhD was on storytelling and insect decline. Here for work & memes
November 10, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Hello, old friends & new followers. Quick intro - I’m an environmental humanities... scholar? ecocritic? person? Interdisciplinary something. My current work is on practices & imaginaries of seed saving, mostly in private gardens; my PhD was on storytelling and insect decline. Here for work & memes
INTRO: I'm a Victorian literature scholar and ecocritic. Currently working on a book about lawns. I write (mostly funny) essays and host a podcast interviewing other essayists. (Hit me up! I'm always looking for guests.) I play the piano, I bake, I read. Middlemarch 4-eva.
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November 10, 2024 at 1:19 PM
INTRO: I'm a Victorian literature scholar and ecocritic. Currently working on a book about lawns. I write (mostly funny) essays and host a podcast interviewing other essayists. (Hit me up! I'm always looking for guests.) I play the piano, I bake, I read. Middlemarch 4-eva.
www.deannakreisel.com
www.deannakreisel.com
Jane Bennett of course (which becomes literary in work on Whitman with Latour influence metastasized), Caroline Levine on networks/assemblage, Bill Brown to some extent, disgraced not-on-here reformed latourian ecocritic and waterslide enthusiast davis holingsbread
November 20, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Jane Bennett of course (which becomes literary in work on Whitman with Latour influence metastasized), Caroline Levine on networks/assemblage, Bill Brown to some extent, disgraced not-on-here reformed latourian ecocritic and waterslide enthusiast davis holingsbread
I'm also so pissed that chatgpt thinks I'm an ecocritic.
April 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm also so pissed that chatgpt thinks I'm an ecocritic.
I left academia because I needed control over where I lived. I needed to be able to find a place, dig in, put down roots. (Especially as an ecocritic/fiction/nonfiction writer.)
October 31, 2023 at 3:48 PM
I left academia because I needed control over where I lived. I needed to be able to find a place, dig in, put down roots. (Especially as an ecocritic/fiction/nonfiction writer.)
(after doing this for a long time, it's hard to convince my colleagues that I'm not really interested in animals as such, nor am I really an ecocritic. If I'm anything, I do work in posthumanism)
September 12, 2024 at 1:38 PM
(after doing this for a long time, it's hard to convince my colleagues that I'm not really interested in animals as such, nor am I really an ecocritic. If I'm anything, I do work in posthumanism)
ISLE let me be a real ecocritic and review Allison Carruth's very good new book
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Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech. By Allison Carruth
The climate catastrophe is here: with that knowledge confirmed, the next major question is about how humans should respond. Do we, as the techno-utopianist
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September 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
ISLE let me be a real ecocritic and review Allison Carruth's very good new book
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
Could the animal control officer BE Donna Haraway? She's got that agility-training-lady vibe, and is kind of brisk and no-nonsense ... a famous ecocritic who Threw It All In?
February 4, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Could the animal control officer BE Donna Haraway? She's got that agility-training-lady vibe, and is kind of brisk and no-nonsense ... a famous ecocritic who Threw It All In?
In a new episode of our partner podcast Novel Dialogue, ecocritic @lizmiller.bsky.social talks with author Kim Stanley Robinson about the impact of his influential climate novel “Ministry for the Future.” Hosted by John Plotz.
Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season’s ...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In a new episode of our partner podcast Novel Dialogue, ecocritic @lizmiller.bsky.social talks with author Kim Stanley Robinson about the impact of his influential climate novel “Ministry for the Future.” Hosted by John Plotz.
Meet Michael Branch: The author examines the environment using literary criticism—and humor
"Given his intimate connection to the land and career as an ecocritic turned humorist, Branch is something like John Muir meets Jon Stewart."
"Given his intimate connection to the land and career as an ecocritic turned humorist, Branch is something like John Muir meets Jon Stewart."
Meet Michael Branch: The author examines the environment using literary criticism—and humor
"Given his intimate connection to the land and career as an ecocritic turned humorist, Branch is something like John Muir meets Jon Stewart."
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January 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Meet Michael Branch: The author examines the environment using literary criticism—and humor
"Given his intimate connection to the land and career as an ecocritic turned humorist, Branch is something like John Muir meets Jon Stewart."
"Given his intimate connection to the land and career as an ecocritic turned humorist, Branch is something like John Muir meets Jon Stewart."
as an ecocritic i should probably support urban compost programs, but, like, routine pesticide spraying is really not good! also, people's kids and pets might touch the sprayed ground, and i'm guessing the results aren't great
May 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
as an ecocritic i should probably support urban compost programs, but, like, routine pesticide spraying is really not good! also, people's kids and pets might touch the sprayed ground, and i'm guessing the results aren't great
I also think Scranton is The Most Misunderstood Ecocritic out there...more to say in coming weeks!
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I also think Scranton is The Most Misunderstood Ecocritic out there...more to say in coming weeks!
One month until the release of the open access book "Unserious Ecocriticism," which will include my essay on Chuck Tingle's environmental Tinglers: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Play & Environmental Destruction in Art & Visual Culture
<b>FORTHCOMING January 20, 2026</b> Climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental injustice are complex, messy, and gravely important issues. In addressing these concerns, traditional ecocritic...
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December 21, 2024 at 2:28 AM
One month until the release of the open access book "Unserious Ecocriticism," which will include my essay on Chuck Tingle's environmental Tinglers: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
tired: Bruce Springsteen is a patriot
wired: Bruce Springsteen writes about the trend of empires towards collapse and the feelings produced by living in said empire, which are only echoes of that which we can’t get back, meaning that Bruce Springsteen is basically an ecocritic
wired: Bruce Springsteen writes about the trend of empires towards collapse and the feelings produced by living in said empire, which are only echoes of that which we can’t get back, meaning that Bruce Springsteen is basically an ecocritic
March 4, 2024 at 4:49 PM
tired: Bruce Springsteen is a patriot
wired: Bruce Springsteen writes about the trend of empires towards collapse and the feelings produced by living in said empire, which are only echoes of that which we can’t get back, meaning that Bruce Springsteen is basically an ecocritic
wired: Bruce Springsteen writes about the trend of empires towards collapse and the feelings produced by living in said empire, which are only echoes of that which we can’t get back, meaning that Bruce Springsteen is basically an ecocritic
she is an ecocritic, she is thrumming, she is becoming-mushroom
July 9, 2023 at 2:20 PM
she is an ecocritic, she is thrumming, she is becoming-mushroom
Bookmarking for the Charbonnier!
Thing is I'm not an ecocritic, ha! I just taught the class bc I keep getting misidentified as one and I ended up HELP with a seminar with 16 students and several auditors, eep.
Thing is I'm not an ecocritic, ha! I just taught the class bc I keep getting misidentified as one and I ended up HELP with a seminar with 16 students and several auditors, eep.
December 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Bookmarking for the Charbonnier!
Thing is I'm not an ecocritic, ha! I just taught the class bc I keep getting misidentified as one and I ended up HELP with a seminar with 16 students and several auditors, eep.
Thing is I'm not an ecocritic, ha! I just taught the class bc I keep getting misidentified as one and I ended up HELP with a seminar with 16 students and several auditors, eep.
My friend (who is not on here) wrote a compelling piece on AGWHAAN and extractivism, including the ecocritic angle. Not at my desk & on leave so can’t pull full citation but Mansbridge J and the title should pull it up
July 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My friend (who is not on here) wrote a compelling piece on AGWHAAN and extractivism, including the ecocritic angle. Not at my desk & on leave so can’t pull full citation but Mansbridge J and the title should pull it up
Tomorrow’s International Colloquium is with renowned philosopher and environmental studies scholar Thomas Heyd and ecocritic Alice Sundman.
Some food will be available, and you’re welcome to bring your own as well. Open to everybody.
👉more online: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
Some food will be available, and you’re welcome to bring your own as well. Open to everybody.
👉more online: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
April 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Tomorrow’s International Colloquium is with renowned philosopher and environmental studies scholar Thomas Heyd and ecocritic Alice Sundman.
Some food will be available, and you’re welcome to bring your own as well. Open to everybody.
👉more online: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
Some food will be available, and you’re welcome to bring your own as well. Open to everybody.
👉more online: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...
I've been using excerpts from Alexis Pauline Gumbs's UNDROWNED for years, ever since it was first taught to me by the great ecocritic (and my former student) Quinn Luthy. "This section looks at the revolutionary parenting and community-care practices modeled by marine mammals....
September 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I've been using excerpts from Alexis Pauline Gumbs's UNDROWNED for years, ever since it was first taught to me by the great ecocritic (and my former student) Quinn Luthy. "This section looks at the revolutionary parenting and community-care practices modeled by marine mammals....
We should get a thread going!
This is mine. I haven’t actually used it in my PhD but Iovino’s way of looking at texts and the world changed my thinking so much www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ecocritic...
This is mine. I haven’t actually used it in my PhD but Iovino’s way of looking at texts and the world changed my thinking so much www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ecocritic...
September 15, 2023 at 12:59 PM
We should get a thread going!
This is mine. I haven’t actually used it in my PhD but Iovino’s way of looking at texts and the world changed my thinking so much www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ecocritic...
This is mine. I haven’t actually used it in my PhD but Iovino’s way of looking at texts and the world changed my thinking so much www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ecocritic...
Did someone put me in a starter pack or something? Where are all these #ecocritic and #environmentalhumanities followers coming from?
Also, I adore you all and am so delighted to find all the environmental scholars; I'm the only one at my college, and sometimes, I just get lonely. 😭
Also, I adore you all and am so delighted to find all the environmental scholars; I'm the only one at my college, and sometimes, I just get lonely. 😭
November 29, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Did someone put me in a starter pack or something? Where are all these #ecocritic and #environmentalhumanities followers coming from?
Also, I adore you all and am so delighted to find all the environmental scholars; I'm the only one at my college, and sometimes, I just get lonely. 😭
Also, I adore you all and am so delighted to find all the environmental scholars; I'm the only one at my college, and sometimes, I just get lonely. 😭
Also at ESSE 2026 in Santiago, Leonor brought our project’s conversations on hope into dialogue with environmental thought through her paper, “Cartographies of Hope and Environmental Wisdom in Shalan Joudry’s Ecopoetics.” 🌿
#ESSE2026 #ResistingTheCapitalocene #Hope #Ecocritic
#ESSE2026 #ResistingTheCapitalocene #Hope #Ecocritic
September 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Also at ESSE 2026 in Santiago, Leonor brought our project’s conversations on hope into dialogue with environmental thought through her paper, “Cartographies of Hope and Environmental Wisdom in Shalan Joudry’s Ecopoetics.” 🌿
#ESSE2026 #ResistingTheCapitalocene #Hope #Ecocritic
#ESSE2026 #ResistingTheCapitalocene #Hope #Ecocritic
✍🏼👉🏻🗞️ sobre la conversa a quatre veus entre @ingridguardiola.bsky.social Joan Nogué , Mita Casacuberta i @lafabregat.bsky.social a partir de “Natura fosca” @edbarcino.bsky.social www.elpuntavui.cat/societat/art...
Evitar el paisatge, retrobar-se amb la fosca
Reflexió sobre la construcció cultural de la natura entre Ingrid Guardiola, Mita Casacuberta, Joan Nogué i Elvira Prado-Fabregat, autora d'un assaig ecocrític a partir de ‘Solitud'
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February 13, 2026 at 10:02 AM
✍🏼👉🏻🗞️ sobre la conversa a quatre veus entre @ingridguardiola.bsky.social Joan Nogué , Mita Casacuberta i @lafabregat.bsky.social a partir de “Natura fosca” @edbarcino.bsky.social www.elpuntavui.cat/societat/art...
She is also an artist and researcher, and recently completed a funded PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, supervised by ecocritic Richard Kerridge and Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey.
August 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
She is also an artist and researcher, and recently completed a funded PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, supervised by ecocritic Richard Kerridge and Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey.