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Talk – “Water, Drought, and Death: An Environmental Approach to American Fiction”
February 14, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Free
DATE: FEB. 14
TIME: 12:00 to 1:00 PM
PLACE: 8th Floor Lounge, Anderson
Lucas Sheaffer (doctoral student in English) will talk about his research in environmental criticism, specifically an examination of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s far-reaching regional damming projects during the mid-20th century. The talk will open with a brief summary of the project’s scope and central questions before closely examining the turbulent intersection of heritage, guilt, water, drought, and graves in Madison Jones’ A Buried Land.
The dissertation, which is nearly complete, is called Damming the American Imagination and encompasses chapters on Robert Penn Warren and David Lilienthal.