Lewis & Clark College | Spring 2020
Some friends of friends curate a poetry newsletter called Pomegranate to share timely works by contemporary poets. Last week I received a poem called “Things to Do in the Belly of a Whale” by Dan Albergotti, from The Boatloads (2008). Being swallowed by a whale is what writing my thesis […]
Read MoreThe capstone I drew together, a thesis titled Environment as Plural Public Realities, is a culmination of my learnings over the last six years—four in coursework at Lewis & Clark College, plus two years out of school which, as I can explain, have been just as formative. Graduating high school, […]
Read MoreMy goal for this thesis draft, from the beginning, was to make it readable for both an academic and mature general readership. That is, ideally I wanted to try out my hand at publishing it! Here’s a teeny screenshot teaser… After my final submission, I realized that two full drafts […]
Read More*image: (believed to be) Georgia O’keeffe’s recipe for chicken flautas, by Colin Clark for the New York Times* My capstone has become a research project dedicated to articulating (theoretical) language for what I refer to as pluralism in the environmental public sphere. Since its conception (in Fall 2019 term), my […]
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