The A&AA Environmental Research Interest Group (RIG) will meet from 5:15-6:15 on Thursday, December 3. Allison Caruth, who is seeking interdisciplinary feedback on her recent conference paper on the sustainable architecture nonprofit Terreform1 will be the guest speaker. The meeting will take place in the art department conference room. Below is Allison’s bio and research interest statement.
Allison Carruth is an Assistant Professor of English and participating faculty member in Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research interests include twentieth-century literature and media (U.S. focus), environmental theory, food studies, and globalization. She has published essays in Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Drama, Modernism / Modernity and in a forthcoming collection entitled Postcolonial Ecologies. Her current book manuscript––which is entitled “Global Appetites”––argues that the food system profoundly shapes aesthetic responses to globalization in U.S. and Anglophone culture from World War I to the present. If pastoral poetry and food primers have historically been the chief artistic genres to take food seriously, “Global Appetites” demonstrates that the modern food system preoccupies an array of literary forms, ranging from culinary manifestos to magical realist fiction. Additional works in progress include an environmental analysis of social networking media, an essay on Seamus Heaney’s digital poetics, and a second book project that traces artistic and literary interventions in the science of genetic engineering.
Please RSVP Carla Bengtson at bengtson@uoregon.edu.