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
I wrote a review of an excellent edited collection of solarpunk essays for the journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. You should read it here, and then go read the book.
#solarpunk #anthropocene #IndependentScholar #Academic @academicchatter @Pheebsdw #ISLE #ASLE #OxfordUniversityPress
So probably time for the introduction post...
I research Greek literature related things. I've spent a lot of time writing about monsters (mostly in this book: https://www.routledge.com/Monsters-in-Greek-Literature-Aberrant-Bodies-in-Ancient-Greek-Cosmogony/Mitchell/p/book/9780367556464).
I'm now mainly interested in time and its personification.
I'm an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, but essentially an independent scholar.
#GreekLiterature #Monsters #IndependentScholar #Classics
#Research #Ancient
Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world. This book provides an in-depth examination of the role of monstrosity in ancient Greek literature. In the past, monsters in this context have largely been treated as unimporta
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