"How I Became a Tree" by Indian author Sumana Roy is a #nonfiction meditation about #trees & plants & our relation with them, from a perspective of how culture & the arts, science & spiritual leaders engage with nature & a re-enchanted world.
3 new books on trees!🌳
The Non-Human is a big current paradigm in #Ecocriticism / #LiteraryStudies - here's some new reading material for you:
This memoir-cum-local history by Ruth Pavey explores her journey of planting "a wood of one's own" in the British countryside in #Somerset
Just had a wonderful, enriching conversation with another independent scholar in ecocriticism, and she mentioned that while she had looked for Canadian alt-ac or independent scholarly networks, she hadn't been able to find any.
@academicchatter @academics @CouragePhD @academicsunite anyone have any leads on something like this? There's a lot of American Alt-ac I know, but how about Canadians? I know you're out there...
#academia #IndependentScholar #ecocriticism #ALECC #ASLE #AltAc
#CfP for the conference "Rivers in Crisis. Fluvial Representations and Agencies in the Anthropocene”, which will take place in Graz on November 20-21, 2026.
🗓️Deadline for abstracts: March 30, 2026
📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/rivers-in-crisis-fluvial-representations-and-agencies-in-the-anthropocene-graz/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies @italianstudies #ecocriticism #LiteratureGender
#CfP for the conference "Climate - Crisis - Collaboration. Cultural Dispositives in Relation", which will be held at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf on October 5-10, 2026.
🗓️Deadline for abstracts: February 22, 2026
📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/climate-crisis-collaboration-cultural-dispositives-in-relation-dusseldorf/ #avldigitalnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteratureCulture #ecocriticism
#CfP für die Ausgabe ""Inseln und Umwelt" der Zeitschrift GEM (Germanistica Euromediterrae), die 2027 erscheinen soll.
🗓️Deadline für Abstracts: 28. Februar 2026
📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/inseln-und-umwelt-zeitschrift-gem-germanistica-euromediterrae/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies #ecocriticism
This essay collection, ed. by Kelly I. Aliano & Adam Crowley analyses a great variety of #videogames through an #EnvironmentalHumanities / #Ecocriticism lens. How do games shape environment(s) & our perception of it outside of the game?
There was a time when humanity spoke to the Earth as if it were alive — rivers taught us, forests were temples, the sky a page of infinite metaphors. Then our gaze shifted. We stopped writing poems about Nature and started writing reports.
“Nature: Poetry or Report?” traces this shift — where Romantic poetry meets environmental data. It argues our intellectual pollution preceded ecological pollution.
🔗 github.com/MirShabnam/Nature-Poetry-or-Reports
#DigitalHumanities #Eprene #Ecocriticism
FID Anglo-American Culture
Ariel Kroon
avldigital.de
fortext lab
Digital Humanities