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This project seeks to answer three questions: First, what happens when we focus our reading and discussion of Austen’s work on her representations of the environment. Our definition of the environment includes air, wind, water, landscapes and grounds, and the more-than-human world (animals, plants, microbes, and more). Second, what can reading Jane Austen in the midst of our present environmental crises teach us about the possibilities that literature opens up and closes off for our deep

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Southern Review, and other publications. She received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin in 2015. She’s a Contributing Editor for Electric Literature and a 2016-17 fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Her debut novel, Pull Me Under, is due November 1 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She hails from Illinois and lives in California’s Santa Cruz mountains.

Borderlines (Feminist Press, 2019) was a finalist for the Louise Meriwether first book prize. She finished her novel, Along the Hills, and is working on a nonfiction collection, Broken Blood, and critical monograph, Haudenosaunee Good Mind: Combating Literary Erasure and Genocide of American Indian Presence with Literature Curriculum and Literary Criticism. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Pacific Lutheran University.

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can readily understand how he and his courses have this effect.  Dr. Bergman is infectious.  He doesn’t hold back.Learn more about Dr. Bergman at his website www.charlesbergman.com Such unique dimensions of his work should not distract us from his many other, no less valuable contributions. Year in and year out he has taught vital courses for the English Department – Environmental Literature, English Renaissance Literature, American Environmental Writing, etc. He was the founding director of the

Community Learning Through Endowed LecturesEach year, the Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture is arranged by the Scandinavian Area Studies program.  This endowed lecture series, made possible by generous donations by descendants of PLU’s first president and friends of the Harstad family, offers the campus and local community a diverse range of topics intended to further our understanding of Scandinavian culture and society.  Topics in recent years have included migrant literature of Norway, the