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Saturday, September 21, 2013
The Comparative Drama Conference, 2014
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The Faculty Research Colloquium
The
Department of English presents:
The Faculty
Research Colloquium
Earth
by Lowell Duckert
This
presentation confronts one of the gravest environmental issues today,
mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia and Appalachia, on unlikely ground:
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century notions of the “prospect.” Derived from the
Latin prospectare and prospicere, the “prospect” was more than a mining term;
it could denote that which faces forward in time and space, the relative senses
of such, or a view itself. But “prospect” could also describe an action – to
face forward, to situate, and the anticipated results of such. I will focus on
one earthy text in particular, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667/74), not just
to show how mining has devastating ecological consequences (it does), but also,
and more importantly, to argue that mining is an ecotheoretical means of
conceptualizing different “prospect[s] wide / And various” (5.88-9), a way of
wondering about better futures on and with the Earth/earth. Earth faces the
human in prospective directions; the look downward is simultaneously a look
forward in time. Borrowing a phrase from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari who
believe mines are non-teleological “lines of flight” that transport bodies
across “smooth spaces” of becoming, I believe that mines of flight have the
ability to create nature-culture assemblages of desire in addition to
socio-economic squalor, environmental sickness, and geological ruin. Coalfield
sociologist Rebecca R. Scott has recently examined the (illogical) “logic of
extraction” that perpetuates the environmental injustices of MTR. My hope is
that the early modern “prospect” alters contemporary debates that harmfully
divide humans from the landscape and pit economic interests against
environmental ones—offering us, instead, prospective futures in which the lives
of both humans and nonhumans are mutually enriched.
September
25, 2013
2:30
p.m., 130 Colson Hall
Newberry Library Fellowships!
Midwest Modern Language Association Department of English, Loyola University Chicago1032 W. Sheridan Road | Chicago, Illinois 60660 phone 773.508.6083 | fax 773.508.6062 email: mmla@luc.edu | www.luc.edu/mmla |
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Monday, September 16, 2013
Calliope Informational Meeting
Contact: Mary Ann Samyn, 304-293-9730
Calliope,
WVU’s Literary Magazine, to Host Informational Meeting
A meeting of undergraduate students
interested in working on Calliope,
WVU's award-winning undergraduate literary magazine, will be held on Tuesday,
September 17, at 7:00 p.m. in room 130 of Colson Hall. Calliope’s editor-in-chief, Caleb Stacy,
and faculty advisor, Mary Ann Samyn, will talk with students interested in
editorial positions (managing editor, fiction editor, poetry editor, etc.) as
well as students interested in contributing in other ways to the editorial and
publication process. No experience is necessary! Enthusiasm is a
plus!
Students who are not able to attend the meeting but would like to be on the Calliope staff should email or call the magazine's faculty sponsor, Mary Ann Samyn, at maryann.samyn@mail.wvu.edu /304-293-9730.
Questions should be addressed to Professor Samyn.
Students who are not able to attend the meeting but would like to be on the Calliope staff should email or call the magazine's faculty sponsor, Mary Ann Samyn, at maryann.samyn@mail.wvu.edu /304-293-9730.
Questions should be addressed to Professor Samyn.
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