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The Formation of a Field: Ecocriticism in America—An Interview with Cheryll Glotfelty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Michelle Balaev
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The classic anthology The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology (1996), edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, was the first of its kind to bring together an array of scholarship that focused on a relatively unrecognized field of study: ecocriticism. This singular publication was the brainchild of Glotfelty, who worked with Fromm to produce a collection that stands at the gates of our contemporary era as a harbinger of the significant criticism and curricula that would shape literary studies in English departments across the country. The Ecocriticism Reader accompanied a new wave of interest in the field as seen in contemporaneous publications such as Karl Kroeber's Ecological Literary Criticism (1994) and Lawrence Buell's The Environmental Imagination (1995).

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 127 , Issue 3 , May 2012 , pp. 607 - 616
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Copyright © 2012 by The Modern Language Association of America

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