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Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans has seen two essays appear in print this month. "A Defense of Anthropomorphism: Comparing Coetzee and Gowdy" appears in "Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature," and "Romanticism and the City: Toward a Green Architecture" is published in "Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice" (University of Georgia Press). The first essay compares strategies for the representation of animals in novels by J.M. Coetzee and Barbara Gowdy, while the second examines attitudes towards urban landscape in British Romantic writing.

In the spring of 2000 Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans published the book Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature. Given the current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists revisiting the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends these current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He explores not only the ideas of poets and artists, but also those of philosophers, scientists and explorers.