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Responding to the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines
In this book, scholars and scientists from twelve disciplines write about the Anthropocene.
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Arcadia
“Too Much Loose Sand”: Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland
An exploration of Colm Tóibín’s literary responses to the coastal erosion of Ireland’s County Wexford.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Alexa Weik von Mossner, author of Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former RCC Fellow Alexa Weik von Mossner is interviewed on her recent book, Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative.
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Climate Disaster, Ecoanxiety, and Frankenstein: Mount Tambora and Its Aftereffects
Ecoanxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein signals our ability to create art in reaction to environmental disaster in increasingly unstable planetary futures.
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Contemporary Ecocritical Methods
An edited volume on contemporary methods for ecocriticism.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Poetics of Dunes”
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
Multimedia | journal article
“‘Everybody Talks About the Weather’”
The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.
Multimedia | journal article
“Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix”
Novelist Catherine Bush walks the streets of Venice, seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson at the Biennale Arte 2024.
Arcadia
Turning Ash into Gold: The 1783 Mount Asama Eruption and the Tenmei Famine in Early Modern Japanese Satire
The 1783 Mount Asama eruption and the Tenmei Famine were reimagined through humor in early modern Japanese satire, revealing a world where rice, not riches, defined survival.
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In the Low Country | Once Upon a Dune
A reflection on borderlands by Nicholas Allen.