The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes’s Writing for Children – Correcting Culture’s Error By Lorraine Kerslake
Despite the fame Ted Hughes’s poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children’s literature. This book identifies... Read More
Webinar “Plant Studies” with Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp 16.11.2019
Webinar 16.11.2019 at 10 AM CET on “Plant Studies” Prof. Christa Grewe-Volpp “Plant studies” is a very recent branch of critical inquiry... Read More
CFP: International postgraduate workshop “Ecocriticism and Narrative Form”
International Postgraduate Workshop Ecocriticism and Narrative Form 9th to 10th December, 2019 Graduate Center for the Study of Culture Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany... Read More
Cli-Fi A Companion – Axel Goodbody – Adeline Johns-Putra (eds.) Cli-Fi A Companion
What is Cli-Fi? Climate change fiction is a new lit- erary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in... Read More
CFP:Representations of environmental crisis, or crisis in the representation of the environment?
Title : Representations of environmental crisis, or crisis in the representation of the environment? A paradigm shift at the turn of our century.... Read More
Waters Rising- CFP special issue of Green Letters on floods
Waters Rising Call for contributions to a special issue of Green Letters on floods in the literary imagination of environmental crisis With... Read More
CFP: Towards Extinction, To Ward Off Extinction
Towards Extinction, To Ward Off Extinction An International Conference organised by CECILLE (Centre d'Etudes en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères) 7-9 November... Read More
Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures.
CFP – Water, Animals, and Arctic Climate Change: An International Symposium
Water, Animals, and Arctic Climate Change: An International Symposium
The symposium will shift the focus from purely textual ecocriticism to the recent breakthroughs in material ecocriticism and explore the creative role of materiality in narrative meaning-making.
CFP: Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices
We face an unparalleled historical situation of global multispecies suffering, variously known as the Anthropocene, or the New Climatic Regime, and signalled by alarming states of exposure and precarity in more-than-human worlds. The question of how to nurture liveable futures for 'us' – while also asking who and what might be included in this 'us' and with what consequences – depends on our abilities and willingness to re-negotiate means of entering into relations and, indeed, conversations with nonhumans, be they other species, microbes or machines.