Intended Audience
Thursday, April 3: Nonfiction Writer Deanna Kreisel (7:30 p.m., Daugherty-Palmer Commons)
In collaboration with Environmental Studies; introduced by Professor Parisa Rinaldi
Deanna Kreisel is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy, as well as numerous articles on ecocriticism, environmental history, gender studies, and Victorian literature and culture. Her creative nonfiction and essays focus on environmental themes and utopianism. She is currently completing a hybrid memoir entitled The Splendour of the Grass, a group of interlinked essays exploring the relationship between lawns, masculinity, sport, ecological stewardship, and community building.