Lynn Keller
Professor of English; Director of Graduate Studies in English; Martha Meier Renk Bascom Professor of Poetry
Office: 7195 Helen C. White Hall
Phone: (608) 265-3393
Biography: Undergraduate training in English at Stanford University; graduate training in English at the University of Chicago, on the UW-Madison faculty since 1981. After many years of studying American poetry written since the mid-20th century, I have recently turned to environmental studies and particularly environmental approaches to poetry. As a genre, poetry has long been associated with "nature writing"; recent poets, thinking in terms of "ecopoetics," address broader understandings of environmental writing, often focusing on urban environments and environmental justice issues.
Tags
conservationenvironmental justice
environmental literature
forest management
gardening
history/culture
land stewardship
