The Environmental Humanities in an Age of Rising Seas

Friday, April 4, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
CSU Heritage Room

Christine Marran specializes in the fields of environmental humanities, critical theory, and gender studies. As Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and Co-Convener of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Minnesota, Marran's work addresses how those in area studies can more deliberately contend with the more-than- human world in this age of rising seas. In her analysis of animal and plant life, archipelagoes and climate in narrative and moving images, Marran offers strategies for reading and interpreting more-than-human elements in the work of activist-writers and filmmakers. Selected works include Ecology Without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic Age (UMP), "You Turn to the Camera and I Smile" in Digital Animalities, "Two Archipelagos, One Planet" forthcoming in ISLE, “Planetarity,” "Temporality and Landscapes of Reclamation in Films about Environmental Toxins: Johnny Depp Goes to Minamata," "Arboreal Unicorns and Other Megaflora: On Kurosawa Kiyoshi's film Charisma," “Animal Stranger in a Tokyo Canal," "First-Person Animal Voices in Tawada Yoko's Memoirs of a Polar Bear," and other works.
This event is free and open to the public.