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Edited by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki. Peter Lang, 2023.

In “Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy, and Art: Towards Theory and Practice,” Karpouzou and Zampaki bring together discussions from the rapidly growing fields of Posthumanities and Environmental Humanities to examine the transformation of human subjectivity, agency, and citizenship as influenced by the intricate relationship among nature, technology, science, and culture.

The editors introduce an innovative interpretation of the ‘symbiotic turn’—the acknowledgment of the numerous interactions and mutual dependencies between humans, non-humans, and their ...

Edited by Tori Bush and Richard Goodman. University of Florida Press, 2021.

“The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing” is the first collection of environmental writing to explore the rich and diverse ecological tapestry of the Gulf South region. Spanning a century and encompassing the vast stretch from Texas to Florida, this anthology features a wide array of voices that delve into the intricate relationship between people and the region’s ever-evolving ecology.

Editors Tori Bush and Richard Goodman have curated a thoughtful selection of ...

By Loss Pequeño Glazier. Night Horn Books, 2022.

In “Transparent Mountain: Ecopoetry from the Great Smokies,” Loss Pequeño Glazier (lpglazier.com) intertwines history, ecology, and poetic spirit to celebrate the resilience and enchantment of the Southern Appalachians. This collection of poems stands as a testament to the region’s survival against near-total devastation throughout the twentieth century. It explores the necessity of wilderness for life by raising awareness of our connection to an interdependent world of living things, the most viable strategy to address global climate ...

By Elizabeth Carolyn Miller. Princeton University Press, 2021.

In “Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion,” Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (UC Davis) explores the British literary landscape from the 1830s to the 1930s—an era characterized by the rise of industrial mining throughout the imperial world—to show how literature during this period engaged with the looming threat of resource exhaustion, weaving it into the narrative fabric.

Miller skillfully examines canonical works such as “Hard Times,” “The Mill on the Floss,” and “Sons and Lovers,” showing ...

By Nicole C. Dittmer, Rowman & Littlefield, October 2022.

Nicole C. Dittmer offers a reimagining of the popular Gothic female “monster” figure in early-to-mid-Victorian literature. Regardless of the extensive scholarship concerning monstrosities, these pre-fin-de-siècle figurations have often been neglected by critical studies or interpreted as fragments of mind and body which create a division between culture and nature. In Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism, Dittmer deploys monism to delineate from and contest such dualism, unifies the material-immaterial aspects of fictional women, and blurs the distinction ...

By Michael Boyden. Oxford University Press, 2022

Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics shows how the writings of American travelers in the Caribbean registered and pushed forward a form of climatic awareness between 1770 and 1860, a pivotal period in modern history fraught with debates over slavery, environmental destruction, and colonialism. Offering novel readings of authors including J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Leonora Sansay, William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James McCune Smith in light of their ...

By Steven Swarbrick. University of Minnesota Press, March 2023.

Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins of environmental criticism despite the many theories of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today? What is unique, possibly even traumatic, about eco-psychoanalysis? The Environmental Unconscious addresses these questions as it provides an innovative and theoretical account of environmental loss focused on the counterintuitive forms of enjoyment that early modern poetry and psychoanalysis jointly theorize.

Steven Swarbrick urges literary critics and environmental scholars fluent in the new materialism ...

By Nicole Seymour. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Glitter offers an environmental-cultural history of the titular substance, revealing the complexity of that which is often dismissed as frivolous. Seymour describes how glitter’s consumption and status have shifted across centuries—from ancient cosmetic to queer activist tool, environmental pollutant to biodegradable accessory—along with its composition, which has variously included insects, glass, rocks, salt, sugar, plastic, and cellulose. Through a variety of examples, from glitterbombing to glitter beer, Seymour shows how this substance reflects the entanglements of consumerism, emotion, environmentalism, ...

FRAGILE: A NOVEL. By Alexa Weik von Mossner, Elzwhere Press, 2023.

A man responsible for keeping New York City alive falls for an underground animal activist from the wrong side of the East River in Alexa Weik von Mossner’s debut novel about love, loss, and resilience in the face of global ecological crisis.

New York in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, Manhattan is green, clean, and thriving, but the eastern boroughs have been given up to the rising Atlantic. The planet has been ...

Drought Drought Torrential, published by Library Partners Press, Wake Forest University, December 5, 2022.

During the Pandemic, Susan Schmidt weeded gardens and kayaked weekly to survey shorebirds. As scientist and poet, sailboat captain, Quaker naturalist—Susan celebrates neighbors in her small town—dolphins, clouds, egrets, terns, willets, black skimmers, oystercatchers, herons, gannets. In Beaufort, as she swims, paddles, rows, sails, walks beaches with her Boykin spaniel Pippa, Susan witnesses coastal diversity and resilience, threatened by sea level rise, King Tides, motorboat wakes, and tourist trash. Gardening on a ...