In this Springs article, English literature and blue humanities scholar Steve Mentz reflects on his time as a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, and the bond he developed with the Steinsee.
This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to light.
The essay acquaints readers with an ecocritical approach to comics by close reading three recent “ecocomics” with an emphasis on thematic and formal features.
This poem traces the complex relationship between humans and the largest bird of the Alps, the bone-eating bearded vulture (Bartgeier).
Nancy Langston reinterprets Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to argue that ecological and human health are inseparable, urging renewed responsibility toward chemical safety and environmental stewardship.
