EDIT: There has been a room change for the event. My lecture will now be taking place in University Hall 1116. I’m beyond excited to announce my upcoming public lecture as the Seedbox Postdoctoral Fellow. If you are in North Texas and want to hear about the unique challenges of reading for water in literature (as well as why we should bother doing such a thing) we’d love to have you. Following the lecture and Read more…
I am painfully aware that I have not published much here over the last several months. That said, I want to a make a brief departure from the Environmental Humanities to think about the state of higher education and higher education funding more broadly. If you live in the Seattle area (or are married to someone who does), you likely saw this headline story from the Seattle Times. If you have had the dubious honor of discussing Read more…
As someone who appreciates both narrative journalism and robust data analysis, fivethirtyeight.com has always been right up my alley. I could post lots of their articles here, or simply tout their praises, but a particular exchange in their recent discussion of hurricanes (which is a worthwhile start-to-finish read) stood out: anna: The [building] codes should really somehow account for uncertainty, but … do not. cwick: Anna, what would it look like if a building code Read more…
Given how much professional and formal writing this profession demands, it’s often hard to imagine taking time to write even more on the side. That said, since there is a lot of signal (and even more noise) devoted to the environment and human relationships with it in our current moment, I want to use this space as a way to informally discuss and digest a small portion of that. Obviously, the opinions here are my own, Read more…