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Nolan, Sarah Instructor

Positions

Instructor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric

Research Areas

Research

research overview

My research explores the role of the natural and built environment in literature, primarily contemporary American poetry. I have published work on ecopoetics, exploring how environments are expressed in contemporary poetry, prison writing, and international poetry.

keywords

ecopoetics, ecocriticism, environmental literature

Publications

selected publications

book
- Unnatural Ecopoetics Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry 2017
chapter
- Un-Natural Ecopoetrics: Natural/Cultural Intersections in Poetic Language and Form. 87-100. 2015
- Rethinking Trash: The Ecopoetics of Waste/Words in A.R. Ammon's Garbage. 269-289. 2014
- Comparative Ecopoetics: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Indian and American Ecological Poetry. 32-55. 2012
- Natural History Tradition 2012
journal article
- Anthem for a Burnished Land: What We Leave in This Desert of Work and Words. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 165-166. 2017
- Prison ecopoetics: concrete, imagined, and textual spaces in American inmate poetry. Green Letters / Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. 312-324. 2014
- It is the human that is the alien: Perception, Language, and Nature in Wallace Stevens's Short Poems. 49-70. 2014
- Poetry of Place: Robinson Jeffers's Coastal Ecopoetics. 81-99. 2014
- The poem is the world: Re-thinking environmental Crisis Through William Carlos Williams's Paterson. 38-43. 2014
- Voicing the Hurricane: Considering Caribbean Ecopoetics. 12-22. 2014
- The Way of Natural History. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 415-417. 2012
- Art vs Nature: Ben Jonson's Proto-Environmentalism. 154-166. 2010

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of Nevada-Reno 2015
M.A., California State University-Long Beach 2010
B.A., California State University-Long Beach 2008

Other Profiles

Academia.edu

https://colorado.academia.edu/SarahNolan