Literature Program, Environmental and Urban Studies Program, and American and Indigenous Studies Program Present
Living and Dying in the Vicinity of Amherst
Monday, April 10, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 102
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Gillian Osborne
This talk draws from a larger “bioregional biography.” Surveying roughly fifty years and fifty square miles in the middle of Massachusetts in the mid-nineteenth-century, In the Vicinity of Amherst draws on environmental history, scientific studies past and present, geography, literature, and the arts, to explore how lives—plant, animal, and human—are connected across time through a shared environmental context. While Emily Dickinson provides the occasion for such close scrutiny of a particular time and place, it’s not Dickinson only I’m seeking here: rather, an understanding of how any text converses with its context. The talk will also feature fossils, paintings of mushrooms,
mica, and shale.
Gillian Osborne is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and co-editor of a collection of critical essays, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press, on modern and
contemporary ecopoetics.
mica, and shale.
Gillian Osborne is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and co-editor of a collection of critical essays, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press, on modern and
contemporary ecopoetics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102