Sarah Dimick - "Unseasonable" - Dr. Jacob Henry Leveton
Sarah Dimick will discuss Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures. She will be joined in conversation by Dr. Jacob Henry Leveton. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
At the Co-op.
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About the Book:
In Unseasonable, Sarah Dimick links accounts of shifting seasons across the globe, tracing how knowledge of climate change is constructed, conveyed, and amplified via literature. She documents how the unseasonable reverberates through environmentally privileged and environmentally precarious communities. In chapters ranging from Henry David Thoreau’s journals to Alexis Wright’s depiction of Australia’s catastrophic bushfires, from classical Tamil poetry to repeat photography, Dimick illustrates how seasonal rhythms determine what flourishes and what perishes. She contends that climate injustice is an increasingly temporal issue, unfolding not only along the axes of who and where but also in relation to when.
About the Author:
Sarah Dimick is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University, jointly appointed in English and the Environmental Policy & Culture Program. Her research, based in Anglophone literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, focuses on literary portrayals of climate change and environmental justice. She co-edits the University of Virginia Press’s Under the Sign of Nature series and is a member of The Environmental Storytelling Studio.
About the Interlocutor:
Jacob Henry Leveton is a materialist scholar working across art history, comparative literature, and experimental humanities. He holds a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University, where he is an alumnus of the Paris Program in Critical Theory, led by Samuel Weber. Dr. Leveton’s current research concerns art and autonomy, with projects engaging the contemporary artist Zachary Cahill’s critical USSA project, the romantic poet William Blake’s radical ecology, and Sigur Rós’s glossolalic lyrical experimentation and post-tonal music.
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As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and currents along the Bay of Bengal. An essayist in the...