{"id":1062,"date":"2018-02-04T10:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1062"},"modified":"2018-02-04T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T15:11:02","slug":"talk-water-drought-and-death-%e2%80%8ban-environmental-approach-to-american-fiction","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/event\/talk-water-drought-and-death-%e2%80%8ban-environmental-approach-to-american-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk &#8211; &#8220;Water, Drought, and Death:  \u200bAn Environmental Approach to American Fiction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2018\/02\/image.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1063 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2018\/02\/image-300x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2018\/02\/image-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/files\/2018\/02\/image.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">DATE:\u00a0 FEB. 14<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">TIME:\u00a0 12:00 to 1:00 PM<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">PLACE:\u00a0 8th Floor Lounge, Anderson<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"im\"><br class=\"m_5952491634989916604gmail-m_-480963137490816751gmail-Apple-interchange-newline\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif;font-size: large\">Lucas Sheaffer\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"im\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', serif;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 16px\">(doctoral student in English)\u00a0 will talk about his\u00a0<\/span>research\u00a0\u00a0in environmental criticism, specifically an examination of the Tennessee Valley Authority&#8217;s far-reaching regional damming projects during the mid-20th century. The talk will open with a brief summary of the project&#8217;s scope and central questions before closely examining the turbulent intersection of heritage, guilt, water, drought, and graves in Madison Jones&#8217;\u00a0<i>A Buried Land<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u200bThe dissertation, which is nearly complete, is called\u00a0<i>Damming the American Imagination\u00a0<\/i>and encompasses chapters on Robert Penn Warren and David Lilienthal.\u200b<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DATE:\u00a0 FEB. 14 TIME:\u00a0 12:00 to 1:00 PM PLACE:\u00a0 8th Floor Lounge, Anderson Lucas Sheaffer\u00a0(doctoral student in English)\u00a0 will talk about his\u00a0research\u00a0\u00a0in environmental criticism, specifically an examination of the Tennessee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/event\/talk-water-drought-and-death-%e2%80%8ban-environmental-approach-to-american-fiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talk &#8211; &#8220;Water, Drought, and Death:  \u200bAn Environmental Approach to American Fiction&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14551,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[16,19,21],"tribe_events_cat":[9,13],"class_list":["post-1062","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-events","tag-free","tag-talk","tribe_events_cat-englishevents","tribe_events_cat-gradenglishevents","cat_englishevents","cat_gradenglishevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1062\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}