Reading this wondering if turning into a tree (and back) could be a way to rearrange and untwist my own spine...

,,As Conor watched, the uppermost braches of the tree gathered themselves into a great and terrible face, shimmering into a mouth and nose and even eyes, peering back at him. Other branches twisted around one another, always creaking, always groaning, until they formed two long arms and a second leg to set down beside the main trunk. The rest of the tree gathered itself into a spine and then a torso, the thin, needle-like leaves weaving together to make a green, furry skin that moved and breathed as if there were muscles and lungs underneath." (Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls)

#MakingKinwithTrees #Trees #Literature

Habe mich zwar bei den Notizbüchern zurück gehalten. Aber ein bisschen glitzernde Stationary-Liebe gibt es trotzdem, @susannegruss. Meine Exzerpt-Kartei sprengt nämlich langsam die kleine Mappe aus dem letzten Jahr...

#aufMeinemSchreibtisch #MakingKinWithTrees #Stationary

Manchmal fällt mir auf, WIE speziell meine Spezialisierung ist. Ich bin eine Expertin für Text über Bäume. Das ist ganz schön weird, aber auch irgendwie schön.

#Bäume #MakingKinwithTrees

"Global Perspectives on Nationalism" comes out tomorrow. I contributed a chapter on "German" Oaks and look forward to reading all the other pieces, too.

There's currently a sale at Routledge and the ebook is fairly cheap: https://www.routledge.com/Global-Perspectives-on-Nationalism-Political-and-Literary-Discourses/Biswas-Eliopoulos-Ryan/p/book/9781032168128

#tree #makingkinwithtrees #nationalism #oak

Insert: *book contract signing sound*

Making Kin with Trees. A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care

is under contract with Palgrave to be published in Silvia Schultermandl & May Friedman's Series "Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference" link.springer.com/series/15789

That means my project #MakingKinWithTrees will produce two independet (yet, of course, interdependent) books. Once I've finished the manuscript for my German-language book "Fremde Verwandtschaft" (a broad inquiry into the literary modes of tree thinking and arboreal poetics) in spring, I'll focus on mediating kinship in popular science and science communication and the relationship between current tree thinking and writing with technological metaphors and models like the WWW (world/wood wide web) to make palpable what trees do...I am SO excited!

#Trees #CulturalStudies @litgroup #envhum #kinship

(Sorry for crossposting, I am too excited to not share the new with everyone)

Bin sehr aufgeregt auf dem Weg zur Kinderuni in Hohenstein-Ernstthal. Wie immer bin ich überzeugt, dass ich die falsche Tag und die falsche Zeit aufgeschrieben hab, aber in der Zeitung steht heute und ich hab säckeweise Bücher dabei und bringe eigenes Publikum mit (erster Vortrag vor meinem eigenen Kind...doppelt aufregend!)

#MakingKinWithTrees