and

Department of Biological Sciences

presents

A Lecture by

David Taylor

Language in the Landscape: Possibilities for Literature in Environmental Work Taylor will first discuss the history of the Association for the Study of Literature and environment and its work within academics, second, a community arts experiment in Spartanburg, South Carolina in raising awareness and encouraging public action for a local urban stream, Lawson's Fork Creek, and, third, the mixed legacy of Thoreau in American nature and place-based writing with some suggestions toward new storylines.   Taylor has published scholarly and creative writing in such journals as Ecological Restoration, Environmental History, Mountain Gazette, Terrain, Southern Poetry Review, and Southwestern American Literature. He is the author of South Carolina Naturalists: An Anthology, 1700-1860 (University of South Carolina Press, 1998) and coauthor of The Lawson's Fork: Headwaters to the Confluence (Hub City Writer's Project, 2000). He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Last year he worked as a writer and researcher for the Program in Community, Culture, and Environment at Northern Arizona University encouraging public participation in local ecological restoration efforts. He is currently working with the Center for Environmental Philosophy and teaching classes in the UNT Philosophy Department.

February 14, 2003 3:00 p.m.

EESAT 130

The lectures are free and open to the public. For special accommodation, contact us at 940-565-2266 or philosophy@unt.edu

PHIL - UNT - February 11, 2003