Election Day felt like a catastrophe on the Lewis & Clark College campus. Conversation was muted. People wore black. People missed class. My peers and professors hadn’t slept. The functions of a normal day disappeared. In my research, catastrophe, disaster, and apocalypse are key terms. It didn’t quite feel like that on 11/9 to me, but it […]
“Where man is not”: Grappling with a Wilderness System Full of Human Stories
Written for Philosophy 215, Spring 2014 (Jay Odenbaugh)
A Meandering Reversal: Locating Quentin Compson’s Drowning in William Faulkner’s Early Career & The Southern Landscape
The final weeks of Fall 15 brought heavy and unending rain to the city of Portland. For me, I was also invested in the first half of a varsity swim season and immersed in the hydrology unit of my introductory geology class. Needless to say, there was a lot of water happening in my life. […]
Come On, Eileen! & Other (Over)reactions to Environmental Academics
Anyone who has ever tried to hang out with me while I do my environmental studies reading knows that I am very vocal when I have a reaction to said reading. Oftentimes, this reaction is a happy reaction, such as when a new connection is formed between William Cronon and John Rember in Hal Rothman’s […]