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Faculty Favorites: Critical Interventions in the Plant Humanities - Edge Effects Faculty recommend their favorite books and poems at the intersection of plants and the environmental humanities

Today on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖

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It’s incredibly beautiful here!

Commence second conference within two weeks!

Seeing the Milky Way from southern Tasmania helps put things in perspective.

Lovely day at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary.

It was a fun challenge making a poster!

Let’s see what a conservation biology conference is like! How long before I’m outed as a humanities professor?

Beautiful art up around the Brisbane Convention Center

Excited to read this!

Austrian news coverage of the No Kings Day protests has been quite positive from what I’ve seen. It’s heartening.

Beautiful view flying into Brisbane.

I saw Brian Wilson in 2017 and at one point he asked the audience if we were there for bad vibrations. Everyone booed. He then asked if we were there for good vibrations and everyone lost their minds. RIP.

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference (Gift Article) The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

Terrifying.

I ❤️ LA, now and forever.

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

Listen to me talk about my new book (which is open access via @cornellupress.bsky.social) on the wonderful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

#CFP: "Post/Apocalyptic Narratives in Contemporary Indo-Japanese Environmental Literature." Hybrid conference. Kobe, Japan, 16–18 February 2026.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025.
Publishing partner: Routledge.

Full call here: sggu.ac.in/icssr.php

#envhum #ecolit #ecocriticism

Stunning and vital talk by McKenzie Wark yesterday.

Wonderful keynote talk by @rgrusin.bsky.social at the Network Ecologies Reimagined conference today at UCI.

Enjoying this three cassette volume work of plant generated music by Nico Georis, released via @leavingrecords.bsky.social

Jenny Hval is brilliant. Love this flexidisc with its rumination on streaming music, surveillance, and militarism in tech.

Desert trumpet (Eriogonum inflatum)

Joshua Tree weekend.

#goals

Love this book design on Kyōdō Ken’s 1992 book on magic mushrooms. Credited to Araki Yōko.

Live jazz options in NYC, May 1965

Ok, book is out, tenure review is done, I guess it’s time to start social media-ing again?

Thanks David!