[Gordon M. Sayre is Professor of English and Folklore at the University of Oregon]
My new research project, which I have been pursuing during my sabbatical research leave in Spring, Summer, and Fall 2015, is about species and biodiversity in natural history. This will be the basis for a graduate seminar I will offer at the UO in Spring term 2016, contributing to Oregon's nationally known program in literature and environment.
I've written drafts of several parts of this project for talks at conferences and symposia:
"American Degeneracy: Colonial Science and Environmental
Anxiety in the 18th century" at the Conference on Transatlantic Ecologies, University of California Santa
Barbara, Early Modern Center, May 16-17,
2014; and at the Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver, BC in January 2015.
"The Library of Life" at the
Futures of Environmental Humanities symposium, University of Utah and Brigham Young University, September 24-27, 2015, and at University of Oregon Humanities Center, March 6, 2015
"Misshepeshu and the Walrus: Hybrid French/Anishinaabe Natural History in the 17th-century Art and Writings of Louis Nicolas" at a
UO English department Works-in-progress series talk in April 2015, and at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment conference in June 2015.
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