Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Making Tracks: Carrick Eggleston
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “From Atoms to Energy Transitions†By Carrick Eggleston Scientists can really only deal with very simple things. They are squeamish about uncontrolled variables.…
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Making Tracks: Vimbai Kwashirai
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Seeing the Hyenas for the Calves!†By Vimbai Kwashirai One pitch dark night, it was storming heavily when my grandma, Grace Rungutai Kamutero,…
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Making Tracks: Axel Goodbody
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “From Romantic Poetry to Contemporary Fiction and Climate Discourseâ€Â by Axel Goodbody My task at the Rachel Carson Center has been to investigate…
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Making Tracks: Chris Conte
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Rust Belt Recollections and a Winding Road to Munich†by Chris Conte By the time I arrived at the Rachel Carson Center in…
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Making Tracks: Sarah Strauss
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Hither and Yon—All roads lead to Munich?†by Sarah Strauss It’s really all about the stories. I started my academic career thinking I…
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Making Tracks: Salma Monani
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “70mm is Big!†Rethinking Cinema, Otherness, and Ecological Relations by Salma Monani Going to the movies during my childhood in the mid-1970s and…
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Making Tracks: Andrea Gaynor
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “The Long Path to the Ever-present” by Andrea Gaynor In a more romantic life, my love of nature would have begun in early…
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Making Tracks: Ruth Morgan
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Undertaking Doctoral Studies in Environmental History Led Me to People, Places, and Subjects That I Had Never Imagined” by Ruth Morgan I’m probably the…
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Making Tracks: Dan Lewis
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. Slow Down and Smell the Birds by Dan Lewis Rarely do things crash in on me like thunder and change my life in…