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Eco Lit
by Eco Lit
Graduate students Nicole Chambers and April McGinnis are exploring the rich terrain of environmental literature and ecocritical scholarship. Read along with them—or just listen in! You can find their reading lists on their website at ecolitpodcast.wordpress.com.
Episodes
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Prophetic Natures
A man’s struggle to face social injustice and then social isolation in the midst of a global pandemic…while it sounds like a human interest piece in current events, this is a story about the future (set at the turn of the 22nd century) written by a 19th-century novelist. In the first episode of…
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A Survey of Season One
This episode, we retrace our steps and return to some of our favorite moments in Season One of the EcoLit Project: our growing awareness of women written about with Botanic language; the dualisms of nature and culture dividing the field; and the alternative path through it that the outside...
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Do Ecocritics Dream of Natural Sheep?
From Golden-Age Arcadia to a future filled with Androids, we have always dreamed of building a better version of Nature: our world and ourselves. But the dark ecology of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? reveals that not all upgrades are so different or so improved as we'd…
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The Importance of Being Urban
Does eco-criticism always need to be so serious? Not according to Oscar Wilde, who manages to cultivate some levity in this earnest literary field. In this episode, we “Bunbury” our way through country, city, summer, and a Trivial Comedy for Serious People. Texts discussed in this episode: The...
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The Garden in the Machine
In this episode, we use Leo Marx's time machine to travel through the garden -- a natural history spanning the brave new world of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest,' the mines and fields of the Victorian novel, the American wilderness (and our acts and actions there) -- toward a post-pastoral future…
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Mountain Mine
April studies mountains, Nicole studies mines. In this episode, we journey through the landscapes of poetry: the mines of Coalbrookdale, the mountains of Mont Blanc, and the Metaphors We Live By. Accompanied by the symphonic Planets of Gustav Holst, we seek to map these distant realms to our own...
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Ground Zero
In our pilot episode, we introduce the Eco Lit project, ourselves, and where we’re heading with this podcast.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Graduate students Nicole Chambers and April McGinnis are exploring the rich terrain of environmental literature and ecocritical scholarship. Read along with them—or just listen in! You can find their reading lists on their website at ecolitpodcast.wordpress.com.
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Graduate students Nicole Chambers and April McGinnis are exploring the rich terrain of environmental literature and ecocritical scholarship. Read along with them—or just listen in! You can find their reading lists on their website at ecolitpodcast.wordpress.com.
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