Mapping Stories: Lowell Wyse and Ecospatiality
This month we’re joined by Lowell Wyse, author of the recent book Ecospatiality: A Place-Based Approach to American Literature. This episode is all about exploring spatiality in literature, specifically how authors map their work and how readers experience those spaces when navigating through the texts.
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson: October 2021 Scholar of the Month
ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for October 2021 is Matthew Schneider-Mayerson.
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College. His research and teaching combine literary criticism, cultural studies, and sociology to examine the cultural and political dimensions of climate change, with a focus on climate justice.
How did you become interested in studying ecocriticism and/or the environmental humanities?
I started my PhD in American Studies in 2007 and became interested in writing about the expectations, anxieties, and desires around peak oil, which were ...