Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Worldview: No Such Thing as the End of History: Good News from the Amazon
This week, we bring you a new Perspectives volume in Portuguese and exciting developments from the Amazon rainforest. The RCC Perspectives 2013/7 volume entitled New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean has just been published in Portuguese, translated by former RCC intern Filipa Soares. It includes short histories both of individual countries and…
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Making Tracks: Karen Oslund
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. Imagining the Global Arctic By Karen Oslund In his What W. H. Auden Can Do for You, Alexander McCall Smith calls Auden “a…
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Making Tracks: Robert Gioielli
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. “We are also environmentalists” By Robert Gioielli One day in the spring of 2001 I received a call from Emory Campbell. At the…
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Making Tracks: Giacomo Parrinello
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. An Initiation Into Environmental History By Giacomo Parrinello I first heard of something called “environmental history€ as a new MA graduate in history.…
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Making Tracks: Patrick Kupper
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. Question the Obvious: On the Benefits of Transnational Research By Patrick Kupper For the past few years I have been working on the…
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Making Tracks: Melanie Arndt
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. Chernobyl By Melanie Arndt I grew up in a country that does not exist anymore—East Germany or the GDR. Perhaps this partially explains…
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Making Tracks: Diana Mincyte
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. By Diana Mincyte My earliest encounters with “non-human€ nature were those of gardening. Like many others in the socialist world, my parents had…
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Making Tracks: Shane McCorristine
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. New Places By Shane McCorristine On my first day in Munich I got lost looking for the Rachel Carson Center. But I was…
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Making Tracks: Ellen Arnold
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. Academic Platypus, or “How I Became a Medieval Historian in Six Easy Steps” By Ellen Arnold The project that I am pursuing at…