“Experimental Writing in the Anthropocene”: ASLE-sponsored panel at MLA 2022
“Experimental Writing in the Anthropocene”: ASLE-sponsored panel at MLA 2022 (Washington DC) Organized by Dr. Eric Schmaltz (Co-Chair) and Dr. Orchid Tierney (Co-Chair, ASLE member)
In The Poethical Wager (2003), Joan Retallack investigates poetry’s relationship to direct social action to interrogate its affordances as a mode of intervention into the conditions of catastrophe, crisis, and precarity. Following Retallack, we wonder what responsibilities does experimental poetry––poetry that swerves away from conventional forms of linguistic and formal meaning-making––has during times of complex social, political, and ecological turbulence? ...
“Apocalyptic Realisms: An Environmental Humanities Roundtable” (MLA 2022)
“Apocalyptic Realisms: An Environmental Humanities Roundtable” (MLA 2022) Organized by Rebecca Oh
A non-guaranteed roundtable with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
The sixth extinction, ecological collapse, resource exhaustion, forced migration, megaslums, intensifying inequality, and every IPCC report suggest that apocalyptic futures have become the global present, that the end times are our times. But the new sense that the end of the world has arrived is old news for many, including residents of the global South, indigenous communities under settler colonialism, and ...