Prof Eric Gidal of the University of Iowa will be giving a lecture in the department on Friday 15th March, jointly hosted by the Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century group and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network. It will take place at 4.00-5.30pm, in LG.11, 40 George Square.
The proposed title of Eric’s lecture is ‘Textual Ecologies: Information and Environment from Sir John Sinclair through Ian McHarg’.
Eric is the author of the brilliant monograph Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial World (Virginia UP, 2015) and is one of the leading scholars taking an ecocritical approach to Scottish literature. He’s in Edinburgh this semester to work on the Patrick Geddes collection.