Biennial Conferences
Last Update: 2 June 1999
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THE THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, KALAMAZOO
JUNE 2-5, 1999
PROGRAM COORDINATORS
Walter Isle, Rice University
Lisa Slappey, Rice University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tom Bailey, Western Michigan University
SueEllen Campbell, Colorado State University
Terrell Dixon, University of Houston
Walter Isle, Rice University
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Tom Bailey, Western Michigan University
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PROGRAM IN BRIEF
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
8:00-10:00 PM OPENING PLENARY SESSION:
Tom Bailey, Conrad Hilberry, Paul Gruchow
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THURSDAY, JUNE 3
8:00-9:15 AM SESSION 1
9:30-11 AM PLENARY SESSION:
John Elder, Scott Russell Sanders
11:15 AM-12:30 PM SESSION 2
1:30-3:00 PM SESSION 3
3:15-4:45 PM SESSION 4
5:00-6:00 PM PLENARY SESSION: David Orr
6:30 PM COCKTAIL HOUR FOLLOWED BY BANQUET:
Wendell Berry
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FRIDAY, JUNE 4
8:00-9:15 AM SESSION 5
9:30-11:00 AM PLENARY SESSION: Stephanie Mills, Evan Eisenberg
11:15 AM-12:30 PM SESSION 6
1:30-3:00 PM SESSION 7
3:15-4:45 PM SESSION 8
5:00-6:00 PM PLENARY SESSION: John Tallmadge, Ian Marshall
7:30-9:00 PM AN EVENING OF NATIVE AMERICAN POETRY:
Marilou Awiakta, Gloria Bird
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SATURDAY, JUNE 5
8:00-9:30 AM SESSION 9
9:45-10:45 AM PLENARY SESSION: Directions in Ecocriticism
11:00 AM-12:30 PM SESSION 10
1:30-2:30 PM ASLE GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING
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COMPLETE PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
OPENING PLENARY SESSION, 8:00-10:00 PM
Tom Bailey, Western Michigan University
Conrad Hilberry, Western Michigan University
Paul Gruchow, Concordia College
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THURSDAY, JUNE 3
SESSION 1, 8:00-9:15 AM
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1.1 PHILOSOPHY AND NATURE
Karla Armbruster, Chair, Webster University
Laura Hartman, Indiana University
A Place in Nature for Humanity and for God: The Philosophy of
Daniel Quinn and the Theology of Matthew Fox
Marit J. MacArthur, University of California, Davis
Recovering "the Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings":
Anthropomorphism, the Affinitive Imagination and Biota Nature
in Montaigne, Hume and Darwin
Paul Wise, Michigan State University
A Kind of Pantheism? Theological Naturalism and the Creed of
Joseph Wood Krutch
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1.2 TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH POETRY
Deborah Fleming, Chair, Ashland University
Neal R. Bukeavich, West Virginia University
Edward Thomas's South Country: Early Twentieth Century
Pastoralism and Late Twentieth Century Ecological Anxieties
Derick Burleson, University of Houston
Auden's Microclimate: Industrial Landscape and Ecological
Consciousness
Deborah Fleming, Ashland University
Landscape and the Self in W. B. Yeats and Robinson Jeffers
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1.3 SITUATING SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER I: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LANDSCAPE
AESTHETIC
Rochelle Johnson, Chair, Claremont Graduate University
Richard M. Magee, Fordham University
"An artist, or a merchant's clerk": Cooper and Landscape
Painting
Stuart Noble-Goodman, Benedictine University
Rural Hours and the Picturesque
Amy Lyn Lewis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Redefining the Picturesque: Susan Fenimore Cooper Describes "A
Dissolving View"
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1.4 CONTEMPORARY ECOPOETRY
Ursula K. Heise, Chair, Columbia University
Hugh Dunkerley, University College Chichester
Holding up a Mirror to Nature? Self-Reflexivity and Otherness in the Work
of Mark Doty and Les Murray
Laura Hamblin, Utah Valley State College
Dasein, Death, and the Poetry of Sharon Olds: An Enlargable
Reading of Diminished Things
Ursula K. Heise, Columbia University
From Fascist Forest to Toxic Landscape: The Problem of Nature
in Contemporary German and American Poetry
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1.5 LANDSCAPE AND LANGUAGE: THE POLITICS OF THE REGIONALIST
IMAGINATION
Danny Postel, Chair, Chicago, Illinois
Mark Luccarelli, University of Oslo
Memory, History and the Reading of Landscape
Anne Whiston Spirn, University of Pennsylvania
The Forgotten Creek: Reading and Telling Landscape Language
Tim Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ecocritique
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1.6 FARMING AND RURAL VALUES
Arthur Versluis, Chair, Michigan State University
James Barilla, University of California, Davis
Sustainable for Whom? Household Economics and Two Recent
Agricultural Novels
John F. Flynn, Michigan Technological University
Nature, Political Economy, and Environmental Values in "Back to
the Land" Literary Narratives
Arthur Versluis, Michigan State University
The Death of American Farming
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1.7 WEATHER AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL CONNECTORS
Adam Sweeting, Chair, Boston University
Celia Lewis, Antioch New England Graduate School
Environmental Connectors in the Nature Writer's Genre
Todd Robert Petersen, Oklahoma State University
Weatherscape: An Inquiry into the Patterns of Climatological
Representation
Adam Sweeting, Boston University
Absent Weather: Meteorological Science and the Case of Indian
Summer
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1.8 EDWARD ABBEY I
David Fenimore, Chair, University of Nevada, Reno
David Fenimore, University of Nevada, Reno
Separated at (B)earth: The Apocalyptic Visions of Zane Grey and
Edward Abbey
Shim Yamashiro, University of Nevada, Reno
Down the Colorado River: Edward Abbey's Companionship with John
Wesley Powell and Three of His River Narratives
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PLENARY SESSION, 9:30-11 AM
WILDERNESS, HOPE, AND INHERITANCE: A DIALOGUE WITH READINGS
John Elder, Middlebury College
Scott Russell Sanders, Indiana University
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SESSION 2, 11:15 AM-12:30 PM
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2.1 WHAT TO MAKE OF DIMINISHED WEST TEXAS: CULTURES AND PLACES
Barney Nelson, Chair, Sul Ross State University
Linda Conway, Sul Ross State University
Increasing Returns from a Diminished Place
John Klingemann, Sul Ross State University
Diminishing a Culture and an Environment through Errors in
Anthropology
Laura Brown, Sul Ross State University
From Hampster Dump to Prairie: Reconstructing a Diminished
Awareness
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2.2 THEORETICAL STANCES
Tom Bailey, Chair, Western Michigan University
Terry Gifford, Bretton Hall College of Leeds University
Post-Pastoral: The Recovery of a Diminished Tradition
Patrick D. Murphy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Notes for an Ecocritical Ethic of Heroic Possibility: An
Argument Against the Philosophy of "a Diminished Thing"
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2.3 SITUATING SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER II: THEORIES OF TIME, PLACE,
AND COMMUNITY
Rochelle Johnson, Chair, Claremont Graduate University
Jennifer Dawes, University of Nevada, Reno
What Passes Away: Visions of Time in Susan Fenimore Cooper's
Rural Hours
Lisa Stefaniak, McMaster University
Gender, Ecology, and Empire: Susan Fenimore Cooper and
Catharine Parr Traill
W. John Coletta, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
"[T]he wood tells its own history": Narrative Ecology in the
Work of Susan Fenimore Cooper and John Clare
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2.4 THE FORMS OF ECOCRITICISM
Ivan Grabovac, Johns Hopkins University
Sentences and Boulders, or Texts and Natural Objects: On the
Relation Between Ecocriticism and Postmodernism
Robert Kern, Boston College
Rethinking Ecocriticism
Simon Estok
Unlikely Case Studies in Unlikely Places: Shakespeare and
Ecocriticism
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2.5 THE "L" IN ASLE: MERGERS AND DIVERGENCES OF ECOCOMPOSITION AND
ECOCRITICISM
Randall Roorda, Chair, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Sid Dobrin, University of Florida
The Nature of Writing: Language, Environment, and
Ecocomposition
Christopher J. Keller, University of Florida
Ecocomposition and Learning: Intersections Among Nature,
Literacy, Academic Discourse
Randall Roorda, University of Missouri, Kansas City
The "L" Stands for What? Ecological Proprieties of Language,
Literacy, and Literature
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2.6 JOHN MUIR AND MARY AUSTIN
Michael Branch, Chair, University of Nevada, Reno
Hal Crimmel
Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin: John Muir's
Struggle to Make the Best of a Diminished Appreciation for
Wilderness
Carol Dickson, Goddard College
"Recounting" the Land: Nature and Narrative in The Land of
Little Rain
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2.7 PLACE SETTINGS: ARTICULATING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMBIOTICS OF
WOMEN'S ATTACHMENT TO PLACE
Scott Slovic, Chair, University of Nevada, Reno
Jan Goggans, University of California, Davis
Documenting a Dying Eden: California's Central Valley in the
Photographs of Dorothea Lange
Christopher Sindt, University of California, Davis
"Some Backtalk from the Mute Sky": Sylvia Plath and the Poetics
of Natural Object Relations
Roy Osamu Kamada, University of California, Davis
Toni Morrison's Beloved: Dwelling in the Ghostly Embodiment of
Trauma
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2.8 PLACE-BASED ETHNICITY
William Slaymaker, Chair, Wayne State University
William Slaymaker. Wayne State University
Sighting/Citing/Siting Nature: Missing Landscapes in Afro-
American Poetry, 1960-99
Jim Tarter, University of Oregon
Topocultures and Place-based Multiethnicity in Leslie Silko,
Rudolfo Anaya, and Octavia Butler
Sylvia Washington, Case Western Reserve University
Reflections and Perceptions of African Americans in the Urban
Environment
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2.9 SEWN TOGETHER: ECOFEMINIST POETRY
Janine DeBaise, Chair, SUNY College of Environmental Science
and Forestry
Janine DeBaise, SUNY College of Environmental Science and
Forestry
Patrick Lawler, SUNY College of Environmental Science and
Forestry
Dawn Montanye, SUNY College of Environmental Science and
Forestry
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SESSION 3, 1:30-3:00 PM
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3.1 SERVICE LEARNING WORKSHOP
Annie Merrill Ingram, Chair
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3.2 LANDSCAPE AND IMAGINATION
John Opie, Chair, New Jersey Institute of Technology
James W. Armstrong, Northwestern University
Kim Alan Chapman, University of Minnesota
The Landscape of Nostalgia: Michigan's "Oak Openings" in the
Scientific and Literary Imagination
Daniel Bratton, Miyazaki International College
Ruined Landscapes of the Midwest in the Novels of Louis
Bromfield
Alan Kennedy, Carnegie Mellon University
A Natural Grammar of Motives: Aesthetic Attitudes in Issues of
Preserving Diminishing Natural Resources--"How much land does a
man need?"
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3.3 ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING IN ASIA
Patrick D. Murphy, Chair, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Kato Sadamichi, Nagoya University
Discovering an Ancient Poem to Save a Tidal Flat
Michael Smith, Virginia Tech
Catalyst, Catastrophe, Consummation: Kunihiro Yamate and the
Rebirth of the Live-Net
Chen-chen Tseng, National Dong Hwa University
An Island Reborn: The New Wave of Nature Writing in Taiwan
Benzi Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Re-siting Place: A Study of Asian Diasporic Literature
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3.4 NATURE IN MODERN POETRY
James Baird, Chair, University of North Texas
James Baird, University of North Texas
Robinson Jeffers and the Desecration of Carmel, California
Susan Schmidt, Brevard College
Wilderness Legacy: Penn Warren and Audubon, Dickey and Douglas
Judith Schwartz, Temple University
"The Open Miracle of Place": George Oppen's Objectivist Locus
Amoenus
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3.5 WHEN A SENSE OF PLACE IS A SENSE OF MOTION: RETHINKING THE
POETICS AND POLITICS OF PLACE
Mark C. Long, Chair, Keene State College
Jacqueline E. Scoones, University of California, Irvine
"Range Beyond Bearing": The Unencompassed Space of Cormac
McCarthy's Border Trilogy
Carmen Lowe, Tufts University
Migrant Women in Mary Austin's "The Walking Woman" and Robinson
Jeffers' "The Loving Shepardess"
Daniel L. Manheim, Centre College
Textual Nomadism in John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer
Joyce Zonana, University of New Orleans
The Wandering Jew Revisited: Diasporaphilia and the Re-Rooting
of Identity
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3.6 DIMINISHED LANDSCAPES IN MODERN LITERATURE
John Cooley, Chair, Western Michigan University
Tucker Amidon, Anaheim, California
The Nature of War: Literary Ecology and the Literature of the
First World War
John Cooley, Western Michigan University
Hemingway's Nick Adams: The Destruction and Recovery of
Michigan's Manistee Ecosystem
William Hogan, University of Michigan
"Rainbow and say so": Gertrude Stein and the Ecology of
Modernism
Bob Mellin, Wayne State University
Nature Trouble: Place and Displacement in Gene Stratton-
Porter's A Girl of the Limberlost
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3.7 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ECOPOETICS
Matthew Cooperman, Chair, Ohio University
George Hart, Stanford University
Scott Bryson, University of Kentucky
Matthew Cooperman, Ohio University
Gyorgi Voros, Virginia Tech University
Randolph Chilton, College of St. Francis
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3.8 ENVIRONMENTAL WRITERS READING I
Allison Wallace, Chair, Unity College of Maine
John Calderazzo, Colorado State University
Watching My Grandmother Watching Mount Etna Burn
McKay Jenkins, University of Delaware
The White Death
Michael O'Rourke, Tennessee Technological University
Pocket Wildernesses, and the Good Dr Pepper Defiled
Allison Wallace, Unity College of Maine
The Honeybee and Its Incredible, Edible Metaphor
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3.9 WRITING ABOUT EDGES
Richard Kerridge, Chair, Bath Spa University College
Gavin Keeney, Studio of the Small Pleasures
BLUE (ABENDLAND)
Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University College
Thresholds and Liminality in Contemporary Nature Writing
John Sandlos, York University
From God to Garbage: The Culture of Coyote in North America
Brad E. Lucas, University of Nevada, Reno
Vietnam's Grisly Years: Trauma, Social Conflicts, and Doug
Peacock's Grizzly Years
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3.10 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION I
David Brande, Chair, Illinois Institute of Technology
Dylan Barth, Illinois State University
Giving Voice to the Monster: Storytelling and Ecology in
Gardner's Grendel
Willard Greenwood, Purdue University
The Salmonid Sublime in Raymond Carver's "Nobody Said Anything"
Karl Zuelke, University of Cincinnati
The Limitations of Culture-bounded Perception in Peter
Matthiessen's At Play in the Fields of the Lord
David Brande, Illinois Institute of Technology
Not the Call of the Wild: Culture and Ecology in Louis Owens's
Wolfsong
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SESSION 4, 3:15-4:45 PM
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4.1 RELIGION AND NATURE
Janice Stryz, Chair, Aquinas College
John Bennion, Brigham Young University
Making the Desert Blossom: Mormon Religion and Desert Ecology
George Handley, Brigham Young University
Mormonism and the Environment: Belief and Practice
John Torres, Brigham Young University
Mormonism and the Environment: Belief and Practice
Janice Stryz, Aquinas College
"Hands to Work . . . Hearts to God" and Shaker Views of Nature
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4.2 ENVIRONMENTAL WRITERS READING II
Brad Monsma, Chair, Woodbury University
Brad Monsma, Woodbury University
Trail Readings, or, A Cloud of Witnesses
Susanne Bentley, University of Nevada, Reno
Fishhawk and the Machinery
Diedre Kindsfather, University of Houston
Paradox Basin
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4.3 CONTEMPORARY NATURE WRITING
Barney Nelson, Chair, Sul Ross State University
Melissa A. Goldthwaite, Ohio State University
Courting a Coyote Rhetoric
Barney Nelson, Sul Ross State University
Gretel Ehrlich's Buddhist Cowboys: The Nonfiction Behind the
Fiction
Erika Valsecchi, Bareggio, Italy
A Quartet of Love and Faith: The Erotic Passion for the Desert
Landscape of Utah in Terry Tempest Williams's Desert Quartet
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4.4 OUR NATURAL SELVES: PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL
EXPERIENCE
John Calderazzo, Chair, Colorado State University
Scott Slovic, University of Nevada, Reno
Sue William Silverman, Grand Haven, Michigan
SueEllen Campbell, Colorado State University
Scott Russell Sanders, Indiana University
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4.5 UTTERING GREEN LEAVES: THE GROWTH OF ENVIRONMENTALIST
AESTHETICS IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY
Elizabeth Dodd, Chair, Kansas State University
Elizabeth Dodd, Kansas State University
The Environment of the Times: Little Magazines and the Work of
Translation in Deep Image Poetry
David Copland Morris, University of Washington, Tacoma
Changing the Way We Read Jeffers: Environmental Lyric in Place
of Tragic Narrative
Bernard Quetchenbach, University of Maine at Fort Kent
Toward an Environmental Identity Poetics: Poet, Audience, and
Nature in Twentieth Century American Poetry
Mary Pinard, Babson College
Lorine Niedecker: Nature and the Grammar of Flooding
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4.6 LIVES AND PLACES
Richard P. Batteiger, Oklahoma State University
Richard P. Batteiger, Oklahoma State University
Florida as Edenic Narrative: How Narrative Shapes Our
Perception of Place
Peter F. Perreten, Ursinus College
Eco-autobiography: Portrait of Place/Self-Portrait
Stephen J. Holmes, Harvard University
Environmental Life-Writing: Definition, Examples, Principles
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4.7 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES I
Pavel Cenkl, Northeastern University
The Politics of Writing Destruction: Collisions of Tourism and
Timber in Northern New Hampshire
Andrew Cline, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Following Thoreau into the Woods: An Argument for the
Canonization of the Unabomber's Manifesto
Lynn Dickerson, University of Richmond
The Cloverdale Furnace Property: Deforestation and
Reforestation in the Jefferson National Forest
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4.8 THOREAU
David R. Williams, Chair, George Mason University
Anne Baker, Reed College
"The Prince of Darkness was His Surveyor": Measuring Nature in
Fremont and Thoreau
Katsumi Kamioka, Kochi University
"Huckleberries" as a Manifesto of Environmentalism
David R. Williams, George Mason University
"Night and Kaos" in the Howling Wilderness of Cape Cod:
Thoreau's Confrontation with Negative Theory/ology
Tom Hillard, University of Nevada, Reno
Thoreau's Animal Enlightenment: Solitude Among Brute Neighbors
in Walden
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4.9 THE VICTORIANS AND NATURE
Anna Ford, Chair, Konan University
Anna Ford, Konan University
Scalping, Decapitation, and Deforestation: Nature/Body Politics
in Hardy's The Woodlanders
James S. Guignard Jr., Western Carolina University
"I know thee not": Culture's Deception of the "Green" Pelleas
in Tennyson's Idylls of the King
John Parham, University of East London
"My Winter World": Weather, Health and Human Ecology in the
Writing of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Anne Perrin, University of Houston
Elements of Nature and the Urban in Wuthering Heights
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4.10 DENATURALIZING NATURE: THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LITERATURE
Joni Adamson, Chair, University of Arizona, Sierra Vista
Kamala Platt, University of the Incarnate Word
Chicana Poetics: Embodying the Struggle for Environmental
Justice
Julie Sze, New York University
Octavia Butler
Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler, Houston Community College
Environmental (In)Justice in Mexican American Literature
Robin Morris Collin, University of Oregon
Is Black Clean? Raising Cane
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PLENARY SESSION, 5:00-6:00 PM
David Orr, Oberlin College
Regeneration of a Diminished Thing
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COCKTAIL HOUR FOLLOWED BY CONFERENCE BANQUET, 6:30 PM
Wendell Berry, Port Royal, Kentucky
"A Reading"
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FRIDAY, JUNE 4
SESSION 5, 8:00-9:15 AM
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5.1 OTHER GENRES
Jefferson Faye, Chair, Michigan State University
Jefferson Faye, Michigan State University
Deep Ecology/Deep Cover: Steven Seagal, Norman Spinrad, and
Dubious Eco-politics
Kevin D. Mallory, University of Ontario
Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and James Cameron's
Aliens: Trauma, Nightmares, and Jouissance
Jim McGrath, University of Montana
The Mystery of the Missing Eco-mystery: or, if so much is
dying, why aren't there murder mysteries about it?
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5.2 AFRICAN-AMERICAN FICTION
Molly Westling, Chair, University of Oregon
Daniel J. Martin, Rockhurst College
Denver's Emerald Room and the Salvaging of a Diminished
Childhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Maureen McKnight, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Place of Storytelling in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure
Woman
Christy McNew, University of North Texas
Him, Her, or ummm? Ecology, Models of God, and Alice Walker's
Vision of the Sacred in The Temple of My Familiar
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5.3 POINTS SOUTH
Ann Fisher-Wirth, Chair, University of Mississippi
K. Wesley Berry, University of Mississippi
Home Economics Gone Bad in the Southern Appalachians: Cormac
McCarthy's Yeoman Elegy
Dixon Bynum, University of Mississippi
The Gun and the Notebook: Rival Perspectives in John James
Audubon
Kristin Harty, University of Mississippi
Finding Home: Rick Bass, Geography, and Literary Form
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5.4 THE CARIBBEAN AND SPAIN
George Handley, Chair, Brigham Young University
George Handley, Brigham Young University
Creolization and a Sense of Place in the Poetry of Derek
Walcott
Steven Skattebo, Northeastern State University
Identifying with Magically-Real Nature: The Discourse of
Unconsumed Space in the Caribbean
Barbara A. Strohm, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Nature (in Contemporary Peninsular Spanish Texts) vs. Culture
(in the Criticism of the Same)
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5.5 WENDELL BERRY AND GARY SNYDER
Leonard M. Scigaj, Chair, Virginia Tech
Patrick Gallagher, University of Georgia
Wendell Berry's Radical, Adventurous Domesticity
Leonard M. Scigaj, Virginia Tech
Nature Mysticism in Wendell Berry's A Timbered Choir
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5.6 AN INTERNATIONAL POETRY READING
Terry Gifford, Bretton Hall College of Leeds University
Shinji Watanabe, Rikkyo University
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5.7 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS
Jim Warren, Chair, Washington and Lee University
Matthew D. Murray, University of North Texas
"The Sea Whisper'd Me": The Voice and/of the Sea in Whitman and
Kerouac
Robin L. Murray, Eastern Illinois University
"Feminine" Nature and the Natural in Urban 19th-Century America
Jim Warren, Washington and Lee University
"WHITMAN LAND": John Burroughs's Enlargements of Whitman's
Nature
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5.8 DIMINISHED PRAIRIES?
Mary Stark, Chair, Central College
Becky Bradway-Hesse, Millikin University
The Loss of Prairie Lands
John Opie, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Toward a Moral Geography: The Plains Example (with a nod toward
Appalachia)
Mary Stark and Stephen Johnson, Central College
Tallgrass, Mixed Grass, Lawn Grass: "Plain" Facts of Prairies
as Reflected in Literature, Science and History
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5.9 ADVENTURES IN GREEN TRAVEL: ESSAYS IN ECOTOURISM
Andrea W. Herrmann, Chair, The University of Arkansas, Little
Rock
Andrea W. Herrmann, The University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Ecotourism: Is a Good Idea Derailing?
Rob Brault, University of Minnesota
Paddling Through the Quetico Wilderness
Sheryl St. Germain, Iowa State University
Spawning Salmon
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5.10 WHAT THE RIVER SAYS
Lilace A. Mellin, Chair
Lilace A. Mellin, Cullowhee, North Carolina
What the River Says about Transitions: Looking Across to the
Twenty-First Century
John Lane, Wofford College
What the River Says about the Underworld: Death by Water
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PLENARY SESSION, 9:30-11:00 AM
Stephanie Mills, Maple City, Michigan, author of In Service of
the Wild
Evan Eisenberg, New York City, author of The Ecology of Eden
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SESSION 6, 11:15 AM-12:30 PM
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6.1 TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING: SOME PRACTICAL APPROACHES
Rob J. Brault, Chair, University of Minnesota
Richard Arnold, Malaspina University-College
Teaching an Environmental Ethic
Laura Blowers Moyer, Hill-Murray School
Using Nature Writing to Teach Students to Write What They Know
Rob J. Brault, University of Minnesota
Eco-Composition at the University of Minnesota: Creating
Habitat for Critical Reading and Writing
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6.2 ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES: THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
Chris Cokinos, Chair, Kansas State University
Michael P. Cohen, Southern Utah University
Cumulative Impacts: Destructive Games on the Colorado Plateau
John Opie, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Down to Earth: Seven Faces of the American Land
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6.3 SOME ENVIRONMENTAL VOICES
Randall Roorda, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Randall Roorda, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Auto Naturalists: On the Road with Edwin Way Teale and Roger
Tory Peterson
Susan Rosen, Anne Arundel Community College
Water and Words: Giving Voice to the Chesapeake Bay
Geoffrey L. Baker, University of Nevada, Reno
The Patchiness of Educational Succession: Wallace Stegner's
Conservationism
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6.4 METAPHOR AND NATURE
Bonney MacDonald, Chair, Union College
Bonney MacDonald, Union College
Charles Bergman, Pacific Lutheran University
Daniel Peck, Vassar College
Jeremy Newell, Union College
SueEllen Campbell, Colorado State University
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6.5 CANALS AND THE WORD: READING THE WIDENING GAP BETWEEN HUMAN
CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
Kent Ryden, Chair, Univ of Southern Maine
Daniel Patterson, California State University, San Bernardino
The Nature Cure for Mid-Nineteenth-Century America in Elizabeth
Wright's Lichen Tufts
Kent Ryden, University of Southern Maine
Artificial Rivers: Nature, Technology, and the Cumberland and
Oxford Canal
Rochelle Johnson, Claremont Graduate University
Preservation and Design: Susan Fenimore Cooper, Andrew Jackson
Downing, and the American Rural Ideal
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6.6 ECOTOPIAS AND OTHER FICTIONS
Greg Garrard, Chair, Bath Spa University College
Greg Garrard, Bath Spa University College
Where is Ecotopia?
Louis Palmer, Michigan State University
Cyborgs and Rhizomes: Impure Models for Environmental
Revolution
Joan Weatherly, The University of Memphis
Millennium, Ecotopia, 1984, and Silent Spring: Landscape,
Language, Nature, and Myth
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6.7 LINDA HOGAN
Greta Gaard, Chair, Western Washington University
Katherine R. Chandler, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Can Land-Language Heal? Linda Hogan's Dwellings--An Answer to Terry
Tempest Williams's Refuge?
Greta Gaard, Western Washington University
Endangered Species, Endangered Tribes: An Ecofeminist Literary
Critique of Linda Hogan's Power as a Lens into the Makah Whale
Hunt
Lee Schweninger, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
"Changed by the Wild": Linda Hogan's Spirit of Renewal
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SESSION 7, 1:30-3:00 PM
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7.1 PUBLISHING CRITICISM, CREATIVE NONFICTION, AND TIPS FOR GREEN
JOB CANDIDATES
K. Wesley Berry, Co-Chair, University of Mississippi
Mei Mei Evans, Co-Chair, University of Washington
Karla Armbruster, Webster University
Michael Steinberg, Editor, Fourth Genre
Chris Cokinos, Kansas State University
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7.2 ENVIRONMENTAL WRITERS READING III
Susan Schmidt, Chair, Brevard College
Sydney Landon Plum, Storrs, Connecticut
A bird who cannot fly
Sheryl St. Germain, Iowa State University
Land of Swamp and Hurricane: A Memoir of New Orleans
Susan Schmidt, Brevard College
Chesapeake
Tiffany L. Trent, Missoula, Montana
Recitation of Loss: A Lament for Peter's Creek
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7.3 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES II
Norman Fischer, Chair, Kent State University
Norman Fischer, Kent State University
Pathways Between Justice Concepts and Environmental Concepts
Robert Irvine, Athena, Oregon
Where the Water Has Gone: Kansas and Its Water Law
William Marvin, Colorado State University
Vert and Venison: Forest Ideologies in Medieval England
Rob Stacy, The Ohio State University
Caught in the Devil's Bargain: Hetch Hetchy and the Mythic
Dimensions of Wilderness
Joe Sheridan, York University
Depot Harbour: The Second World War on the Great Lakes
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7.4 THE LANDSCAPES OF RECENT FICTION
Lisa Slappey, Chair, Rice University
Alex Hunt, University of Oregon
Space and Displacement
James L. Johnson, California State University, Fresno
In Search of Connection: Language and Silence in Tim O'Brien's
The Things They Carried
John Price, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Reaching Yarak: The Peregrinations of Dan O'Brien
Lisa Slappey, Rice University
A Theory of Relativity: Community and Environment in
Contempoary Minority Fiction
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7.5 MARY OLIVER
John Knott, Chair, University of Michigan
J. Scott Bryson, Sul Ross State University
Place, Space, and the Pathetic Fallacy in the Poetry of Mary
Oliver
Sara Farris, University of Houston-Downtown
Mary Oliver, June Jordan, and the Decolonization of Nature
Kirk Glaser, Santa Clara University
Decomposing Self: Nature, Home, and Body in John Muir, Robinson
Jeffers, and Mary Oliver
John Knott, University of Michigan
Mary Oliver's Wild World
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7.6 ECOCRITICAL THEORIES
Ian Marshall, Chair, Penn State Altoona
Matthew Bolinder, Boston College
Theory, Natur(e)ally: Lacan and the Subject of Wilderness
Daniel J. Bullen, New York University
Lost in Universal Language: Locating the Transcendental Self in
the Rhetoric of Unique Personality
Ian Marshall, Penn State Altoona
Deconstructing Hercules: Or, From Antaeus to Maslow by Way of
Psyche and Thoreau
Larry W. Riggs, Butler University
First, the Diminished Psyche: Eco-psychological Resonances in
Some Early Critiques of the Modern, "Autonomus" Individual
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7.7 GIVING VOICE TO NATURE
Vicki Graham, Chair, University of Minnesota, Morris
Vicki Graham, University of Minnesota, Morris
Poetry and Nature: Practicing the Wild
Nancy Freehafer, Chicago, Illinois
Christiane Rey, Northwestern University
Karen Rodriguez, Chicago, Illinois
Seeding the Snow: Building Community Through a Women's Nature
Journal
Rinda West, Oakton Community College
Restoration and Natural Health: Land and Psyche in Narrative
Theresa May, University of Washington
Playing in a Storied Land: Site Specific Ecodrama as Catalyst
for Community
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7.8 ENVIRONMENTAL LIVES
McKay Jenkins, Chair, University of Delaware
Tom Kreissler, University of Kansas
Paradocs: An Ecological Paradox in Kansas
Thomas Meyers, University of Texas at Austin
Breaking Green Ground on Campus: The Forty-year Memoir (1935-
75) of University of Texas Professor Joseph Jones: Life on
Waller Creek: A Palaver about History as Pure and Applied
Education
Zabe MacEachren, York University
Crafting Restored Knowledge
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7.9 RECONNECTING WITH URBAN NATURE
Adam Sweeting, Chair, Boston University
Don Alexander, Simon Fraser University
Reconnecting with Urban Nature: A Vision for a False Creek
Heritage Trail
Elizabeth N. Goodenough, University of Michigan
Secret Spaces of Childhood: Worldbuilding and the Urban
Pastoral
James W. Sheppard, Michigan State University
The Earth Beneath the Streets: Developing an Urban Place-Based
Environmental Ethic
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7.10 NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN WRITING TOWARD ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Rachel Stein, Chair, Siena College
Joni Adamson, University of Arizona, Sierra Vista
Reinventing Nature: Leslie Silko's Critique of Euro-American
Forms of "Nature Talk"
Rachel Stein, Siena College
Environmental Justice Activism and Native American Identity in
Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine, University of Houston-Downtown
Female Ecological Subjectivity and Environmental Justice in
Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
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SESSION 8, 3:15-4:45 PM
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8.1 ROUNDTABLE
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE POETICS: CLASSROOM STRATEGIES
Terrell F. Dixon, Chair, University of Houston
Joni Adamson, University of Arizona, Sierra Vista
Kamala Platt, University of the Incarnate Word
Julie Sze, New York University and New York City Environmental
Justice Alliance
Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine, University of Houston-Downtown
Rachel Stein, Siena College
Adam Sweeting, Boston University
Robin Morris Collin, University of Oregon
Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler, University of Houston
Marilou Awiakta, Memphis, Tennessee
Gloria Bird, Spokane, Washington
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8.2 ENVIRONMENTAL WRITERS READING IV
Allison Wallace, Chair, Unity College of Maine
Alice F. Crawley, Penn State
Que Regrese That I Return
Linda Helstern, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
The Fragmented Forest
Barbara Wheeler, Cedar Falls, Iowa
The Invasion of Iowa
Emily D. Wicktor, St. Cloud State University
Mississippi: Chinese Jump Rope Revisited
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8.3 Alaska: The Least Diminished Place?
Eric Heyne, Chair, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Nancy Lord, Homer, Alaska
Green Alaska: Dreams From the Far Coast
Marybeth Holleman, University of Alaska, Anchorage
In the Name of Restoration
R. Brett Stirling, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Into What Wild? Differing Views on the Adventures of Chris
McCandless
Eric Heyne, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
New Alaskan Voices
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8.4 SUSTAINABLE PEDAGOGIES AND ECOCRITICAL PRACTICE
Annie Merrill Ingram, Chair, Davidson College
Annie Merrill Ingram, Davidson College
Experiential Learning as a Sustainable Ecopedagogy
Lawry Gold, Pacific Lutheran University
Relational Pedagogy and the Community Studies Program
Elizabeth MacNabb, University of Richmond
Teaching Ecofeminist Sustainability via Humanities Perspectives
On Sex Roles
Rev. Mary Westfall, University of New Hampshire
In Pursuit of Sustainable Education: A Journey of Body, Mind
and Soul
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8.5 MIDWESTERN LITERARY LANDSCAPES
Thomas Bailey, Chair, Western Michigan University
William Barillas, Rutgers University
The Garden in the Machine: Midwestern Archetypes in Theodore Roethke's
Michigan Poems
Phil Greasley, University of Kentucky
Thinking Like a Mountain, Feeling Like a Poet: Aldo Leopold, Humanistic
Perception, and the Biotic Community
David Anderson, Michigan State University
Louis Bromfield's "Cubic Foot of Soil"
Elizabeth Davey, Michigan State University
A Banner Tour of the Great Lakes
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8.6 THE DIMINISHING GLOBE
Jean P. Arnold, Chair, Harvey Mudd College
Jean P. Arnold, Harvey Mudd College
Reflections in the Mirror: Cultural Perceptions of Nature and
the Diminishing Globe
Rachel Galvin, University of Queensland
What to Make of a Diminished Presence in a Vast Land?
Jennifer Wheat, University of Hawaii at Hilo
Who Belongs Where? or, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: What to Make
of a Diminished Thing in Hawaii
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8.7 ECOLOGICAL CRISES
Stephen Johnson, Chair, Central College
Terri M. Baker, Northeastern State University
Disability, the ADA, and the Kingdom of Chaos
Donna Mendelson, Binghamton University
Nature as Enemy in Silent Spring and The Control of Nature
Stephen Johnson and Mary Stark, Central College
Literary Clues of Ecological Crisis: A New Historical and
Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Mary Obuchowski, Central Michigan University
Environmental Costs and Cures in the Prose of Sandra
Steingraber and Mary Swander
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8.8 INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE
Patrick D. Murphy, Chair, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Mary Ruth Donnelly, Belleville Area College
Constructing Nature and Ordering Space: Literature of Spanish
and Aztec Cultures
Patrick D. Murphy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The Political Ecology of International Environmental Fiction
Robert Zeller, Southeast Missouri State University
Nature Writing in Australia
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8.9 NATURE IN EARLY BRITISH POETRY
Ralph Black, Chair, Wake Forest University
Diane McColley, Rutgers University
Clods now Calved: The Generative Earth in Seventeenth-Century
Poetry
Anne Milne, McMaster University
"Who by the meer Strength of natural Parts": Some
Contradictions of the "natural Genius" in the Work of
Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women Poets
Michael J. Schwartz, New York University
William Cowper
Tim Lindgren, Boston College
Green Prosaics: Nature and the Ordinary in John Clare's Poetry
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8.10 ENVIRONMENTAL POETS READING
Ann Fisher-Wirth, Chair, University of Mississippi
Robin van Tine, Saint Leo College-Tidewater Center
Vicki Graham, University of Minnesota, Morris
Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi
Guessing at Distances
Gary Lawless
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PLENARY SESSION, 5:00-6:00 PM
CHASING THE GHOST OF THOREAU: TV INTERPRETS WILDERNESS IN THE
MAINE WOODS
John Tallmadge, Union Graduate School
Ian Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Dave Getchell, PBS, Producer/director, Anyplace Wild TV
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AN EVENING OF NATIVE AMERICAN POETRY, 7:30-9:00 PM
Marilou Awiakta (Cherokee), Memphis Tennessee
Gloria Bird (Spokane), Spokane, Washington
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SATURDAY, JUNE 5
SESSION 9, 8:00-9:30 AM
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9.1 HABLA LA NATURALEZA (NATURE SPEAKS): CHALLENGES FROM LATIN
AMERICA
Patrick D. Murphy, Chair, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Roberto Forns-Broggi, Metropolitan State College of Denver
You just don't understand: Latin Americans and Nature in
Conversation
Sofia Kearns, Furman University
"Progress" at What Cost? An Environmental and Cultural Critique
through a Short Story by Anacristina Rossi
Jorge Marcone, Rutgers University
Restoration of the Green Hell: The Spanish American Romance of
the Jungle as Environmental Writing
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9.2 ENVIRONMENTAL WRITERS READING V
Suzanne Ross, Chair, St. Cloud State University
Christopher Cokinos, Kansas State University
Steady Seeing
Susan Hanson, Southwest Texas State University
Finding a Practice in the Wilderness
Suzanne Ross, St. Cloud State University
The Midwest Oak Savanna: Encountering the Land Between
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9.3 EDWARD ABBEY II
Daniel Patterson, Chair, California State University, San
Bernardino
Michael Lundblad, University of Nevada, Reno
Primitive (Male) Instincts in the Work of Edward Abbey
Richard Wiebe, Fresno Pacific University
Edward Abbey's Epistemological Crawl: Urban and Wilds
John H. Smihula, University of Nevada, Reno
Edward Abbey and the Pathetic and Technopathic Fallacies
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9.4 EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE:
FIELD INSTITUTES AND INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES AND PROGRAMS
Michelle Satterlee, Chair, University of Nevada, Reno
Jerry Keir, University of Nevada, Reno
From Conversation to Conservation: New Directions in
Environmental Field Studies
Jeri Pollock, Pepperdine University
Voices from the Jungle: Teaching Nature Writing On-site
Corey Lewis, University of Nevada, Reno
From Awareness to Action: Field Studies That Work
Joni M. Palmer and Sheryl St. Germain, Iowa State University
Reading and Writing the Land: An Interdisciplinary Approach to
Integrating the Arts and the Study of the Environment
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9.5 THE NATURAL WORLD IN EARLY AMERICA
Bill Stowe, Chair, Wesleyan University
Jim Langston, University of Houston
American Heroes Marking the Land: Crevecoeur's Ploughman and
Audubon's Colonel
Bill Stowe, Wesleyan University
"Nature a Minister of Happiness": Henry Ward Beecher and the
Commodification of the Natural World
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9.6 ENVIRONMENTAL POETICS
Mark C. Long, Chair, Keene State College
Mark C. Long, Keene State College
Notes Toward a Poetics of Walking
Christopher Hitt, University of Oregon
"The Ghostly Language of the Ancient Earth": The Poetics of
Silence and Listening
David Gilcrest, Carroll College
One Tree at a Time: Moore's Intertextual Rhetoric and the Case
of the Camperdown Elm
Matthew Cooperman, Fine Arts Work Center
A Poem is a Horizon: Notes Toward an Ecopoetics
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9.7 EARLY MODERN BRITISH WRITERS
Nathaniel Hart, Chair, University of Minnesota, Morris
Nathaniel Hart, University of Minnesota, Morris
Wilfred Owen: Coal Mines, Land Mines, and the Natural World
Linda L. Underhill, Wellsville, New York
Living Consciously: Virginia Woolf's Moment of Being and the
Nature Essay
William J. Stroup, University of New Hampshire
"My Kindred!" or, Why Henry Salt Matters Now
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9.8 WOMEN AND NATURE I
Cheryl Glotfelty, Chair, Univ of Nevada, Reno
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Emory University
Exotic Appalachia: Women Activists Write about Nature and the
Wilderness
Susan Stratton, University of Calgary
Ecology and Feminism in Utopian Fiction
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9.9 REVISIONING URBAN NATURE
John Tallmadge, Chair, The Union Institute
John Tallmadge, The Union Institute
Invisible Landscapes: Resistance to Urban Nature
Terrell F. Dixon, University of Houston
Writing (and Reading) Urban Nature: Some Notes for the New Century
Kathleen Wallace, Ohio State University
The City in African-American: Implications for an Urban
Ecocriticism
Katherine Joslin, Western Michigan University
Wild Chicago: The City According to Literary Naturalism
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PLENARY SESSION, 9:45-10:45 AM
DIRECTIONS IN ECOCRITICISM
Terrell Dixon, Chair, University of Houston
Joni Adamson, University of Arizona, Sierra Vista
Michael P. Cohen, University of Southern Utah
Ian Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Randall Roorda, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Len Scigaj, Virginia Tech University
Rachel Stein, Siena College
Adam Sweeting, Boston University
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SESSION 10, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
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10.1 BEYOND NATURE WRITING: EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF ECOCRITICISM
Karla Armbruster, Chair, Webster University
Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University College
Ecological Hardy: An Ecocritical Reading of the Novels of
Thomas Hardy
Diane McColley, Rutgers University
Milton's Environmental Epic
Karen Powers-Stubbs, Miami University
Beyond Nature Writing: (Eco)Compositionists Write the Worlds
H. Lewis Ulman, Ohio State University
Second Nature: Virtual Landscapes Online, in Print, and in Real
Life (IRL)
Kent C. Ryden, University of Southern Maine
"This Book of People" and the World They Made: Robert Frost,
the New England Environment, and the Discourse of Objects
Kathleen R. Wallace, Ohio State University, and Karla
Armbruster, Webster University
The Novels of Toni Morrison: "Wild Wilderness Where There Was
None"
Charlotte Walker, SUNY-Oneonta
The Book Laid Upon the Landscape: An Ecofeminist Reading of
Virginia Woolf
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10.2 ENVIRONMENTAL WRITERS READING VI
Chris Cokinos, Chair, Kansas State University
Eric Dieterle, Iowa State University
The Columbia River: A Meditation
Melanie Dylan Fox, Iowa State University
Giant Forest
Peri Phillips McQuay, Westport, Ontario
Seizing the Strawberry
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10.3 RICK BASS
O. Alan Weltzien, Chair
Richard Hunt, University of Nevada, Reno
Witnessing to the Wild: Rick Bass and the Advocacy of Wonder
O. Alan Weltzien
Rick Bass's Literature-Environment Dialectic
Terrell Dixon, University of Houston
Rick Bass: The Restorative Imagination
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