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Timothy Morton, Professor of Literature and the Environment, affiliated with the department of English, is the author of numerous books and essays on the subject of ecology, literature and culture. He is a specialist in the literary and cultural representation of food and eating, which he regards as a necessary part of considering relationships between humans and their environment. Most recently he is the author of Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism (Palgrave, 2003), a collection of essays on food and eating in the Romantic period and of "Why Ambient Poetics?", an essay on ecological ways of reading poetry, focusing on an original reading of Wordworth's "There Was a Boy." |
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