Description: Panelists explore how environmental humanists can use figures of material and metaphorical decay—terms like ruin, waste, and rot—to produce new formal and historical readings of texts in and about the Anthropocene.

Speakers

Jeffrey Insko, Oakland U

Jennifer James, George Washington U

Andrea Knutson, Oakland U

Anthony Lioi, Juilliard School

Dana Luciano, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

Franklin Ridgway, U of Cincinnati

Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Pomona C

Presider

Stephanie Foote, West Virginia U, Morgantown