Podcasts by Eco Lit
Graduate students Nicole Chambers and April McGinnis are exploring the rich terrain of environmental literature and ecocritical scholarship. Read along with them—or just listen in! You can find their reading lists on their website at ecolitpodcast.wordpress.com.
Further podcasts by Eco Lit
Podcast on the topic Bildung
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Prophetic Natures from 2020-08-30T17:47:11
A man’s struggle to face social injustice and then social isolation in the midst of a global pandemic…while it sounds like a human interest piece in current events, this is a story about the fut...
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A Survey of Season One from 2019-10-13T01:40:01
This episode, we retrace our steps and return to some of our favorite moments in Season One of the EcoLit Project: our growing awareness of women written about with Botanic language; the dualism...
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Do Ecocritics Dream of Natural Sheep? from 2019-08-19T22:50:49
From Golden-Age Arcadia to a future filled with Androids, we have always dreamed of building a better version of Nature: our world and ourselves. But the dark ecology of Philip K. Dick’s Do ...
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The Importance of Being Urban from 2019-07-05T22:15:47
Does eco-criticism always need to be so serious? Not according to Oscar Wilde, who manages to cultivate some levity in this earnest literary field. In this episode, we “Bunbury” our way through cou...
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The Garden in the Machine from 2019-05-18T22:26:09
In this episode, we use Leo Marx's time machine to travel through the garden -- a natural history spanning the brave new world of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest,' the mines and fields of the Victorian ...
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Mountain Mine from 2019-04-06T00:00:33
April studies mountains, Nicole studies mines. In this episode, we journey through the landscapes of poetry: the mines of Coalbrookdale, the mountains of Mont Blanc, and the Metaphors We Live By. A...
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Ground Zero from 2019-03-01T21:30:34
In our pilot episode, we introduce the Eco Lit project, ourselves, and where we’re heading with this podcast.
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