Please join us for writer Carrie Duke's talk on Roethke's "Transplanting" and greenhouse memories. Duke is Assistant Professor of English and First-Year Writing Coordinator at the University of Saint Francis. Her scholarship focuses on how literary representations of gardens remind readers of the healing aspects of nature and plants. Her essay "Recovering John Muir's Wild Gardens" appeared in Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2015), edited by Steven Petersheim and Madison Jones IV.
The annual Virtual Roethke Scholars series features contributors to A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke and is organized by editor William Barillas.
About Speaker
Carrie Duke is an Assistant Professor of English and First-Year Writing Coordinator at the University of Saint Francis. Her scholarship focuses on how literary representations of gardens remind readers of the healing aspects of nature and plants. Her essay "Recovering John Muir's Wild Gardens" appeared in Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2015), edited by Steven Petersheim and Madison Jones IV.