Writing in 1993, after decades spent documenting America’s shifting landscapes, poet A. R. Ammons suggested that “garbage [ought] to be the poem of our time.” Inspired by “mounds of disposal” along a ...
Stacey Balkan
Stacey Balkan is assistant professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. Her teaching and research focus on postcolonial ecologies, landscape aesthetics and counterpastoralism, and environmental justice. Recent articles for The Global South and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment examine the material legacies of uneven and combined development in Nigeria and India. Her current book project, “Rogues in the Postcolony: Developing Itinerancy in India,” studies picaresque critiques of colonial and postcolonial improvement regimes. 
Anthropocene and Empire
In the autumn of 1839, an unusually strong tropical storm devastated coastal communities along the Bay of Bengal in what was then the English East India Company’s premier settlement. A decade later ...