SPECIAL FEATURE + FREE ARTICLE
David A. Vivian considers how Caribbean science fiction might resist the common climate-fiction plot
His article, "Reimagining Urban Ecology through Caribbean Science Fiction," linked in the post, is available FREE
iupress.org/connect/blog...
#CliFi #ecocriticism

CFP: Literary Gardens: Cultivation, Movement, and Modernism. Online, 12–13 Feb 2027, from the Elizabeth von Arnim Society. Keynotes: Nezka Pfeifer & Karina Jakubowicz. Abstracts due 30 Nov.
elizabethvonarnimsociety.org/conferences/literary-gardens-2027/
#modernism #VirginiaWoolf #ecocriticism

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Jie Chen and Quan Wang explore how in “The Effluent Engine” N.K. Jemisin channels a reimagined steampunk Tinkerer archetype and Vodou epistemology to create a decolonial utopian future
Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
#ecocriticism #steampunk

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo introduces JML 49.4 in "Literature on a Hot Planet: An Introduction to Ecocriticism/Anti-Imperialism"
Read it for FREE at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
#ecocriticism #anti-imperialism #environmentalhumanities #openaccess

#newpublication: 'Ecology before Nature: From the Nexus of Things to the Web of Life'
The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, Volume 101, Issue 3 (2026)
Guest Editors: Alexandra Heimes, Ross Shields and Johannes Wankhammer

Access: www.tandfonline.com/toc/vger20/1...

#ecocriticism #ecolit

NEW ISSUE!
Journal of Modern Literature 49.4 (Summer 2026), "Ecocriticism / Anti-Imperialism," edited by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo is now live on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/issue/57714
#ecocriticism #anti-imperialism #AcademicSky #literature

📖🌱 In “Hydrological Narratology: Materiality and the Metamodern Structure of Feeling in Graham Swift and Amitav Ghosh,” Zhaoming Li examines how images of water pinpoint #metamodern networks in Waterland and The Hungry Tide, focusing on #ecocriticism on myriad narrative levels. Read the piece:👇

Part memoir. Part archive. Part autotheory.

What happens when your creepy archive begins to read you before you can read yourself?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory

👯‍♀️ Creep-onomies: On Creepy Play and the Creepy Reveal

Laura E. Ludtke

“I was a creepy child.”

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory #ArchiveStudies

.... R. L. Stevenson alongside contemporary ecological and ethnonationalist politics.

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology

⛰️ Lost on a Dark Mountain: Communal Misanthropy on the Untrodden Ways

Lara Choksey

How and when does hostility become belonging? What happens when ecological longing gives way to communal misanthropy?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology

CFP: Conference ‘Fantastic Spaces and Places'
Karlstad, Sweden
15-17 June, 2027

Deadline for abstracts: 1 November, 2026

Info: www.kau.se/kufo/aktivit...

#speculativefiction #ecocriticism #ecopoetics

Parkin's ecopoetic exploration of mimicry, birdsong, and queerness asks what it means to creep after another voice.

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #EcoPoetry #AfterPoem

🐦 Creeping After: Jays, Gays, and Copycats

Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social

What happens when a poet “Awakens as Jayself” or makes “acorns from spores”?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #EcoPoetry #TechnoCreep #AfterPoems

For Rose, Charlotte Mew's poetry becomes a site for thinking about bodily entanglement, spillage, and modernist creepiness.

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

📖 Read Open Access here: : doi.org/10.1080/0969...

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology

🩸 ‘“Crimson haunts you everywhere’: Spilling Blood and Unsettling Bodies in Charlotte Mew’s Poetry”

Madeleine Rose @madeleinerose.bsky.social

When blood spills, seeps, and stains, it refuses the body’s containment.

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology

🌿 Hidden Messages

Immy Smith (@lycomorpha.bsky.social)

“When you go into the woods today, you’re in for a creaturely surprise.” Forests, lichens, camouflage, mimicry.

N.b., Immy’s work doubles as our cover image!

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology

For Phillips, quicksilver becomes the medium through which creepy motion and unstable perception become thinkable.

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #WoolfStudies

☿ Woolfian Quicksilver

Joshua Phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social

“The moment runs like quicksilver…” What happens when perception itself refuses to stand still?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #WoolfStudies

🪲 Configurations of Creepiness

📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #TransModernism