Description: Engaging with current trends in early modern ecocriticism and conceptions of the nonhuman, panelists explore how Edmund Spenser’s allegorical poetics can help broaden current conceptions of anthropogenic environmental change. Spenser’s experiments in English poetics and in allegorical and narrative structures and his engagement with environments that are both symbolic and historical make his works especially ripe for ecocritical analysis.

Speakers

Joseph Campana, Rice U

Brent Dawson, U of Oregon

Dyani Johns Taff, Ithaca C

Alexander McAdams, Rice U

William Rhodes Jr., U of Iowa

Tiffany Jo Werth, U of California, Davis

Presider

Steve Mentz, St. John’s U, NY