Detail from painting: Mum, do caterpillars go to heaven? (2025)
3/3 The material process—digging, cutting, scraping, and layering paint with silk, sand, and wood—is central. Painting is not merely representing ecological entanglement; it is a way of thinking inside it.
#EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoCriticism #ContemporaryPainting #ArtSky
Post: michaelmarkwick.com
1/3 Last week I gave a talk, Shadowtime Ecologies: Caterpillars, Bones, and Unstable Landscapes in the Painterly Imagination, at the 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference @ Utrecht University. @easlce.bsky.social
#multispeciesjustice
#EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoCriticism #ContemporaryPainting #ArtSky
To everyone heading to Utrecht: bring back stories and photos. I'll be listening, reading (here), and thinking of you all.
#EASLCE #Ecocriticism #EnvironmentalHumanities #AcademicLife #ConferenceLife
#environmentalhumanities #modernism #infrastrucure #postcolonialliterature #climate #ecocriticism #novel #petrofiction #soundstudies
📚✨ New article!
María Ferrández-Sanmiguel (@maria-fsm.bsky.social) explores posthuman science, material performativity & nonhuman agency in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (Anglia, 2026).
🔗 doi.org/10.1515/ang-...
#Posthumanism #NewMaterialism #Ecocriticism
"Join the Orca Uprising!"🫵 If this rings a bell, we know we'll be seeing you in Utrecht in a couple of weeks' time! Don't miss our publishing workshop with Myrto Aspioti & swing by the De Gruyter Brill exhibition to browse our latest 📚in #ecocriticism & #environmentalhumanities! @easlce.bsky.social
Holding the book "How I Became a Tree" by Sumana Roy in front of a tree
"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.
#CulturalStudies #History #LiteraryStudies #Ecocriticism
Holding the book "a wood of one's own" by Ruth Pavey in front of a tree
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
#History #Memoir
#CFP: "Multispecies Studies: Approaches and Methods beyond Nature/Culture Dualities"
PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages) Conf, Seattle 2026
Deadline: 15 May 2026
Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
#envhum #envhist #morethanhuman #mla #ecocriticism #ecolit
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 […]
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking & loss on the River Isis in Oxford.
Marginalia: Song to the River
shorturl.at/8Q4M7
#EnvHist #Film #Ecopoetics #Ecocriticism
@dpcarrington.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking & loss on the River Isis in Oxford.
Marginalia: Song to the River
shorturl.at/8Q4M7
#EnvHist #Film #Ecopoetics #Ecocriticism
@nichecanada.bsky.social @uio-oceh.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking & loss on the River Isis in Oxford.
Marginalia: Song to the River
shorturl.at/8Q4M7
#EnvHist #Film #Ecopoetics #Ecocriticism
@papayranger.bsky.social @affenaudio.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking & loss on the River Isis in Oxford.
Marginalia: Song to the River
shorturl.at/8Q4M7
#EnvHist #Film #Ecopoetics #Ecocriticism
@profpitches.bsky.social @futuremountain.bsky.social
Check out my open-access article!
I explore how two water-centric #clifi short stories by A.S. Byatt and Vajra Chandrasekera paradoxically use the narrative failure at the heart of the climate crisis as a catalyst for narrative imagination. #bluehumanities #ecocriticism
dx.doi.org/10.1002/fhu2...
#webinar: 'Plants and Creative Practice: Poetry'
Thursday, Mar 26 from 5 pm to 6:15 pm GMT
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
Info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/plants-and...
#ecocriticism #practiceresearch #ecopoetics #envhum #planthum
#CFP: Ecofeminist Drama: Theatre, Performance, and Ecological Futures
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2026
Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
#envhum #ecocriticism #ecopoetics #ecofeminism #dramastudies #environment #ecolit
#Lesenswert, die 216te!
Diesmal u.a. mit Artikeln von @mashxtomuse.bsky.social und @pachuki.bsky.social, der ultimativen Wrestlingspiel-Historie bei @dasklapptsonicht.de und dem ultimativen WWF No Mercy-Podcast bei @stayforever.de.
#Nintendo64 #Wrestling #FolkHorror #Ecocriticism #FinalFantasy
#CFP: "MLA 2027: The Arctic Imaginary: Extraction and Empire"
Deadline: March 15, 2026
Info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
#envhum #ecolit #ecocriticism #environment #mla
#CFP: "Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture"; Beyond Postmemory Research Project (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Deadline: 30 April 2026
Info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
#envhum #ecolit #ecocriticism
From Southeast Alaska to Fairbanks’ boreal forest, where black spruce stand “the toughest things you have ever met,” Corinna Cook listens—to trees, winter, and traces of history and change. Excerpt: Permafrost Is an Archive—link in bio! #environmentalwriting #climateliterature #ecocriticism
#CFP: "ECO-NARRATIVES OF VOLCANIC ECOLOGIES FROM PAST UNTIL THE PRESENT: A GEO-ONTOLOGICAL TURN"
Deadline for abstracts: February 28, 2026
Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
#ecolit #envhum #ecocriticism
We are currently compiling a collection of German-language climate fiction novels. So we have a question for the community: Which texts come to mind for you? #climate-change-fiction #CLS #ecocriticism #climate-fiction #digitalhumanities #cli-fi #germanliterature #climate-change (1/2)
#CFP: 'Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering'
Deadline for abstract: 4 September 2026
Link: teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
#envhist #envhum #ecocriticism #ecopoetics #ecolit #histsci #hstm #sts #sciencestudies
We continue with Dr Michael Malay's (University of Bristol) superb blog, asking what it might mean when 'even the simple act of kite-flying' is 'haunted' by the question of the Anthropocene':
universityenglish.ac.uk/kite-flying-...
#EnglishStudies
#Ecocriticism
#Antropocene
#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with this post by Francesca Mackenney and Jamie Castell (Cardiff University):
'How do representations of sound in literature shape our awareness of the natural world?'
Read the full post here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
#EnglishStudies
#Ecocriticism
#CFP: "Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture"
Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (VPFJ)
Deadline: May 10, 2026
Info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
#envhum #envhist #culturalstudies #culturalhist #victorianstudies #ecocriticism #ecopoetics
#CFP: "Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism"
July 18-19, 2026
Deadline: March 22, 2026
Info: labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/e...
#ecopoetics #ecocriticism #envhum
