“…we have to get over, as in getting over a disease, the idea that we can ‘all’ speak to one another in the universal voice of poetry”...

On Oct. 2, 2014, Ursula Heise [http://www.uheise.net/] spoke on “Biocities: Urban Futures and the Reinvention of Nature” to an attentive...

The plants at the center of Ruth Ozeki’s 2003 novel All Over Creation are agricultural crops, in particular, the Russet Burbank potato....

Like so many people in academia, my beliefs about trigger warnings solidified almost immediately the moment I first heard the term. It’s...

Heise, Ursula. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. New York: Oxford UP, 2008. In a world in...

“Anal obscenity, pushed to such a point that the most representative apes even got rid of their tails (which hide the anus from other...

In my parent’s mailbox situated in front of their house in a (stereo)typical middle-middle class suburban neighborhood, a postcard...

​​ I’ll admit to being late to the Mad Men party. While the series debuted in 2007, I am still slogging through season 6 on...

Karl Marx has found his way into the discussion concerning net neutrality in myriad ways; all for the wrong reasons. From the nod to Marx...

Like so many of my nonviolent friends, I am drawn to HBO’s television adaptation Game of Thrones. And as I watch characters lose heads,...