Keynote Panel: Ecology and Religion in 19C Literary Studies – Four Case Studies

Gary Handwerk (University of Washington), “Ecologies and Economies of Nature: Malthus and Beyond” Joshua King (Baylor University), “Christ and Carbon: Earth as Human in Aurora Leigh” Patrick R. O’Malley (Georgetown University), “New Woman, New Creed: Spiritual Evolution in Sarah Grand’s Heavenly Twins Trilogy” Emma Mason (University of Warwick), “Divine Pastoral: Wordsworth and the Weak Things … Read more

Panel #3: American Wildernesses and Ecologies

Moderator: Jeremy Elliott (Abilene Christian University) Jeremy Elliott (Abilene Christian University), “Echoes of Gnosticism in John Muir’s Ecological Vision” Sara Frear (Houston Baptist University), “‘Toward the Edge of Town’: Gifford Pinchot and the Domesticated Wilderness of Carol Ryrie Brink” Jordan Sillars (Baylor University), “‘Voices to proclaim his praise’: Nature, Text, and Divine Revelation in James … Read more

Panel #2: Ecological Interconnection and Sociality

Moderator: Sean Dempsey (University of Arkansas) Max Hohner (Eastern Washington University), “Birds of a Feather” – Dickens, Darwin, and the Mutual Aid of Our Mutual Friend” Molly Lewis (Baylor University), “Ruskin and the Myth of Mechanical Progress” Paul Martens (Baylor University), “Kierkegaard’s ‘Birds of the Air’: Learning to Live with the Grain of the Universe” … Read more

Panel #1: Ordained Destinies and National Ecologies in Three 19C British Poems

Moderator: Susan Oliver (University of Essex) Allison Dushane (Angelo State University), “‘Preternatural Agency’: Coleridge’s Sybilline Leaves and Ethics in the Anthropocene” Sam Baker (University of Texas at Austin), “Ann Radcliffe’s Stonehenge: A Gothic Poem for a Secular Age” Devin Griffiths (University of Southern California), “Waking Dover Beach”

Welcome!

Welcome to the Ecology and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference! Our sessions for Day One will get underway at 9:00 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, September 18. A few minutes prior to the session the streaming video will appear here in the Sessions area of the conference website. You can view the session through the site, … Read more