Lynn Keller Archives - Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters

Lynn Keller

Lynn Keller is the Bradshaw Knight Professor of the Environmental Humanities, an honor awarded her as the Director of the Center for Culture, History, and Environment, and the Martha Meier Renk Bascom Professor of Poetry in the English Department at UW–Madison. Her most recent book, Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene (University of Virginia Press, 2017), examines 21st-century poetry that addresses some of the urgent environmental challenges we face today. Her current project concerns recent ecopoetic explorations of plant life and its significance in the Anthropocene.

Lynn Keller