@drytares1.bsky.social
Early modern ecocritic, interested in plants. Writing a book about Shakespeare's trees.
Teaching it in my sophomore lit class this semester. Lots of the students' favorite thing we've read. :)
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Teaching it in my sophomore lit class this semester. Lots of the students' favorite thing we've read. :)
Reading through botanist Nehemiah Grew's 17th century "Anatomy of Plants," I came across this delicious phrase: "the swelth and the superbience." No clue what it means at present. ๐
#plantstudies #research #bookwriting #shakespeare
#plantstudies #research #bookwriting #shakespeare
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reading through botanist Nehemiah Grew's 17th century "Anatomy of Plants," I came across this delicious phrase: "the swelth and the superbience." No clue what it means at present. ๐
#plantstudies #research #bookwriting #shakespeare
#plantstudies #research #bookwriting #shakespeare
Under the greenwood tree...
One of the most beautiful trees in
Europe is the 550 year old Arbour Oak in Wollaton Park, Nottingham
My youngest son is at university in the City, and took this photo 30mins ago
Europe is the 550 year old Arbour Oak in Wollaton Park, Nottingham
My youngest son is at university in the City, and took this photo 30mins ago
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Under the greenwood tree...
I've started posting some of the sonnets I've written for my wife on my website. Check them out if you want to read some sappy love poetry in Shakespearean form on National Poetry Day!
profjasonhogue.com/sonnets/
#nationalpoetryday
profjasonhogue.com/sonnets/
#nationalpoetryday
Sonnets
Sonnet #1 Now that weโve made it home from hospital,A month and more has quickly passed us by.Sweet Indigo, our child, is not so smallAs she was when she told your womb goodbye. And at six weeks heโฆ
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October 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I've started posting some of the sonnets I've written for my wife on my website. Check them out if you want to read some sappy love poetry in Shakespearean form on National Poetry Day!
profjasonhogue.com/sonnets/
#nationalpoetryday
profjasonhogue.com/sonnets/
#nationalpoetryday
Doing some blogging this morning on the short fiction of H.G. Wells, which not as many people seem to know about as well as his longer titles like Time Machine, War of the Worlds, etc.
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H.G. Wellsโ short stories
So, as usual itโs been a minute since Iโve posted here, but I try to keep the content coming at a slow and steady drip, at least! I believe Iโve mentioned previously how Iโvโฆ
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September 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Doing some blogging this morning on the short fiction of H.G. Wells, which not as many people seem to know about as well as his longer titles like Time Machine, War of the Worlds, etc.
sylvansomethings111032451.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/h...
sylvansomethings111032451.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/h...
A student complimented me today and said I always have โgroovyโ shirts. So that made me feel pretty good.
September 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A student complimented me today and said I always have โgroovyโ shirts. So that made me feel pretty good.
I'm enjoying reading Todd Borlik's recent ecocritical book on Shakespeare's Jacobean plays. I wanted to read his chapter on Macbeth for my Macbeth chapter, but I realized that its ideas about heath and scrubland also apply to my Richard III chapter re: thorns and shrubs. Cool!
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September 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm enjoying reading Todd Borlik's recent ecocritical book on Shakespeare's Jacobean plays. I wanted to read his chapter on Macbeth for my Macbeth chapter, but I realized that its ideas about heath and scrubland also apply to my Richard III chapter re: thorns and shrubs. Cool!
Cicada emerging from its skin on my way to class; had departed when I made my way back. :)
September 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Cicada emerging from its skin on my way to class; had departed when I made my way back. :)
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Free online event from Oak Spring Garden Foundation & Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social - Plants, Memory, Belonging, Oct 8, 2025, 4-6pm GMT. Featuring Maria Thereza Alves, Jessica Lee, Marcello Di Paola, Goldie Poblador & more. osgf.org/programs-and...
September 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Free online event from Oak Spring Garden Foundation & Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social - Plants, Memory, Belonging, Oct 8, 2025, 4-6pm GMT. Featuring Maria Thereza Alves, Jessica Lee, Marcello Di Paola, Goldie Poblador & more. osgf.org/programs-and...
Davies, in Microcosmos (1603) writes,
This Salomon lookt into High and Low,
And knew all from the Cedar to the shrub;
He bare the sworde that gaue a bitter blow
Aswell to Cedars, as the lowest stub
The image of the cedar tree towering over the shrub (or stub - "stump") is common in the period.
This Salomon lookt into High and Low,
And knew all from the Cedar to the shrub;
He bare the sworde that gaue a bitter blow
Aswell to Cedars, as the lowest stub
The image of the cedar tree towering over the shrub (or stub - "stump") is common in the period.
September 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Davies, in Microcosmos (1603) writes,
This Salomon lookt into High and Low,
And knew all from the Cedar to the shrub;
He bare the sworde that gaue a bitter blow
Aswell to Cedars, as the lowest stub
The image of the cedar tree towering over the shrub (or stub - "stump") is common in the period.
This Salomon lookt into High and Low,
And knew all from the Cedar to the shrub;
He bare the sworde that gaue a bitter blow
Aswell to Cedars, as the lowest stub
The image of the cedar tree towering over the shrub (or stub - "stump") is common in the period.
I'm teaching Beowulf at the moment, and even though we are reading in translation (Heaney's mainly), it's cool to come across these kinds of similar/different language usages. "Cealde streamas" becomes "cold depths" in Heaney, but the stream could also be seen as another type of surface.
September 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I'm teaching Beowulf at the moment, and even though we are reading in translation (Heaney's mainly), it's cool to come across these kinds of similar/different language usages. "Cealde streamas" becomes "cold depths" in Heaney, but the stream could also be seen as another type of surface.
Most of the texts Iโm teaching this semester. Monsters in Brit Lit, environmental sci-fi, and freshman rhet/comp
September 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Most of the texts Iโm teaching this semester. Monsters in Brit Lit, environmental sci-fi, and freshman rhet/comp
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I still play daily and share with mom and brother. Kind of a way for us to stay connected across distance.
August 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I still play daily and share with mom and brother. Kind of a way for us to stay connected across distance.
Wow! I just wrote two paragraphs, pretty quickly in succession, of my book. I'm cooking!! Just one more graph and I'll be done with my revised Intro to my chapter on Rich III's vegetal body.
#amwriting #amrevising #ecocriticism #plantstudies #shakespearestudies
#amwriting #amrevising #ecocriticism #plantstudies #shakespearestudies
August 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Wow! I just wrote two paragraphs, pretty quickly in succession, of my book. I'm cooking!! Just one more graph and I'll be done with my revised Intro to my chapter on Rich III's vegetal body.
#amwriting #amrevising #ecocriticism #plantstudies #shakespearestudies
#amwriting #amrevising #ecocriticism #plantstudies #shakespearestudies
I like that term "bloomscrolling"
August 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I like that term "bloomscrolling"
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Saxicolous (stone) lichens, in some places thought to live for 11,500 years, challenge basic concepts like species, and some consider them more akin to actual ecosystems.
Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.
Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.
August 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Saxicolous (stone) lichens, in some places thought to live for 11,500 years, challenge basic concepts like species, and some consider them more akin to actual ecosystems.
Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.
Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.
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Coming early 2026, Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition co-edited with my favorite grump, @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social #Adequate #Rhetoric #WritingStudies #RhetComp
August 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Coming early 2026, Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition co-edited with my favorite grump, @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social #Adequate #Rhetoric #WritingStudies #RhetComp
It's been a busy first week of the semester, in particular because I'm in the process of moving offices across campus. I've at least gotten all of the books OVER here now. Next comes organizing and placing them!
#back2school #professorlife #needtogetbacktowriting
#back2school #professorlife #needtogetbacktowriting
August 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It's been a busy first week of the semester, in particular because I'm in the process of moving offices across campus. I've at least gotten all of the books OVER here now. Next comes organizing and placing them!
#back2school #professorlife #needtogetbacktowriting
#back2school #professorlife #needtogetbacktowriting
"Every cloud engenders not a storm." -Shakespeare (King Henry VI, part 3)
August 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Every cloud engenders not a storm." -Shakespeare (King Henry VI, part 3)
Transitioning from intensive research and writing over the summer to intensive teaching in less than a week. Never an easy one!!!
#academia #summersovertoosoon
#academia #summersovertoosoon
August 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Transitioning from intensive research and writing over the summer to intensive teaching in less than a week. Never an easy one!!!
#academia #summersovertoosoon
#academia #summersovertoosoon
I'm researching early modern understandings of mother earth, so I've returned to Todd Borlik's chapter about "Renaissance Gaia Theory," which is taking me back to Pythagoras - and I thought I was done with him after 8th grade math! ;)
#damenature #climatechange
www.routledge.com/Ecocriticism...
#damenature #climatechange
www.routledge.com/Ecocriticism...
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures
In this timely new study, Todd A. Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent
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August 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm researching early modern understandings of mother earth, so I've returned to Todd Borlik's chapter about "Renaissance Gaia Theory," which is taking me back to Pythagoras - and I thought I was done with him after 8th grade math! ;)
#damenature #climatechange
www.routledge.com/Ecocriticism...
#damenature #climatechange
www.routledge.com/Ecocriticism...
I'm doing research today on my book's chapter on Richard III. Reading the excellent book by Elizabeth B. Bearden - Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability.
press.umich.edu/Books/M/Mons...
press.umich.edu/Books/M/Mons...
Monstrous Kinds
Monstrous Kinds is the first book to explore textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disab...
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August 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I'm doing research today on my book's chapter on Richard III. Reading the excellent book by Elizabeth B. Bearden - Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability.
press.umich.edu/Books/M/Mons...
press.umich.edu/Books/M/Mons...