On Active Grounds: Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities - Paperback

by Robert Boschman (Editor), Mario Trono (Editor)

In the context of the environmental humanities, this book focuses on agency and time, revealed in fourteen essays and a photo album that cover topics such as temporal literacy, graphic novels, ecocinema, eco-musicology, animal studies, Indigeneity, wolf reintroduction, environmental history, green conservatism, and environmental policy.

Author Biography

Robert Boschman is a professor of English, Languages, and Cultures at Mount Royal University, Calgary. He is the author of In the Way of Nature: Ecology and Westward Expansion in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Bishop, and Amy Clampitt (2009) and co-editor with Mario Trono of Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene (WLU Press, 2014).
Mario Trono studies visual cultures from an environmental perspective. He co-edited (with Robert Boschman) Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene (2014). Mario was a co-founder of Under Western Skies, a biennial, interdisciplinary conference on the environment and teaches at Mount Royal University.