Christine Marran
Professor and Chair, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Christine Marran teaches courses that address ecocriticism, literary writing, and cinema studies. Her new materialist approach to texts examines how cultural ideas variously enable and impede our access to the material world. Her expertise in Japanese-language materials brings a new perspective to a field traditionally dominated by Anglophone literature. Her book on literature and cinema, Ecology Without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic World, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press (2017). She has chapters in a range of books and journals including Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power, Ishimure Michiko’s Writing in Ecocritical Perspective, and Mechademia. She can be reached at [email protected].
Dan Philippon
Associate Professor, Department of English
Dan Philippon teaches courses in the environmental humanities, literary nonfiction writing, and sustainability studies. His research interests concern American environmental literature and its relationship to the ideas of nature, culture, and place. He is the author of Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement (2004), the co-editor of Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (2006), and the editor of Our Neck of the Woods: Exploring Minnesota's Wild Places (2009), among other books. A Past President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), he is currently working on a project examining the discourses of the sustainable food movement. He can be reached at [email protected].
Nicole Emanuel
EHI Graduate Assistant, English PhD Candidate
Nicole Emanuel is the EHI Graduate Assistant and a second-year PhD candidate in the English Department. She can be reached at [email protected].