演讲题目：Bringing the Subsistence Perspective in Environmental Justice and Ecofeminism to Contemporary Literature

演讲人：Prof. Patrick D. Murphy 美国生态批评家，中佛罗里达大学英语教授，英语系代理主任

时间：2012年10月19日（星期五）下午3：30－5：30

地点：文南楼204会议室

主办：清华大学外文系、清华大学比较文学与文化研究中心

演讲者简介：Patrick D. Murphy is one of the American leading ecocritics and the founding editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, which is the official journal of Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). His work in ecocriticism covers teaching a wide variety of nature-oriented courses and a range of critical writing on literary works and cultural studies issues from science fiction to books on hurricanes and their aftermaths, from John Burroughs's naturalist essays to Frost's nature poems to Carson's Silent Spring, from Florida mystery writers to German novelists, from Native American poets to Indian storytellers. He has been invited to give keynote speeches in numerous international conferences on a variety of topics such as "Damning Damming Modernity: Flowing Water and Changing Climate," “Ecocriticism in Asia: Reorienting Modernity, Reclaiming Nature?” “Consumption as Addiction, Sustainability as Recovery,” "Getting the Story Straight: Narrative and Rhetorical Strategies in Climate Change Popular Science and Fiction," "Ecological Applications of Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogics," "Ecocriticism and the Waters of the World," "Practicing Ecocriticism in Literary and Cultural Studies," and so on. His representative works includeEcocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies(2009),Farther Afield in the Study of Nature Oriented Literature(2000),A Place for Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder(2000),Literature, Nature, and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques(1995),Understanding Gary Snyder( 1992).