Muir, Ruskin, Uncle Sam, Planet Earth: Gains and Losses

Presenter Information

Terry Gifford

Location

University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

Start Date

22-3-2014 9:30 AM

End Date

22-3-2014 10:30 AM

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Terry Gifford is the author of Reconnecting With John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice (2006) and editor of John Muir: The Eight Wilderness-Discovery Books (1992) and John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings (1996). Also the author of Pastoral (1999), Ted Hughes (2009) and Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry (1995, 2nd edition, 2011), he has seven collections of poetry and has co-edited several books, most recently, with Teresa Gomez, Women in Transit Through Literary Liminal Spaces (2013). Among his recent essays is “Ownership and access in the work of John Muir, John Buchan and Andrew Greig” (Green Letters 17:2). A pioneering British ecocritic, Terry Gifford is Visiting Scholar at Bath Spa University's Centre for Writing and Environment, UK, and Senior Research Fellow and Profesor Honorifico at the University of Alicante, Spain.