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Roundtable Participants Moderator: Rachel Arteaga (University of Washington) Christine Chaney (Seattle Pacific University) Sumayyah Daud (University of Washington) Richa Dwor (Douglas College) Laura Griffith (University of Washington) Gary Handwerk (University of Washington) Heidi Kaufman (University of Oregon) Charles LaPorte (University of Washington) Michael Ledger-Lomas (Kings College, London) Hee Eun Lee (University of Washington) Joseph McQueen … Read more

Moderator: Melinda Creech (Independent Scholar) Gil Waldkoenig (United Lutheran Seminary), “Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Religion and Church Affiliation” John Linstrom (NYU), “Outlook to the Backgrounds: The Idiosyncratic Rhetoric and Spirituality of Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Earth Philosophy” Jeffrey Bilbro (Spring Arbor), “Earthly Religion and Church Religion: Bailey, Berry, and the Shifting Landscape of Belief”

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

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

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

Moderator: Robert Creech (Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University) Susan Bratton (Baylor University) Michael Northcott (University of Edinburgh) Norman Wirzba (Duke University)

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 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