Churchyard on the Hill of Slane, where St. Patrick was said to have lit a nighttime Paschal fire seen at Tara.

Bucknell's Environmental Humanities Group

Bucknell's faculty are engaged in scholarship involving the environment that relates to the humanities in areas of literature, religion, and the social sciences, as well as in more technical fields that engage with issues of culture and the human scale of projects.

The Environmental Humanities Group is designed to draw together scholars and students interested in humanities approaches to ecology across departments on campus, and to help stimulate a more synergistic approach to studies of nature and the relation between humans and the environment. In addition, the effort involves exmaining our home bioregion, the Susquehanna Valley, in terms of possible involvement and relations between Bucknell and regional restoration efforts, especially from the perspective of human culture in the valley. Currently the newly revamped Bucknell Environmental Center provides an avenue for engagement of humanities studies through its Susquehanna Initiative, and through involvement of participating faculty with the Susquehanna Colloquium, a network developing regional projects that includes teacher-scholars from several universities in the region.

Bucknell's resources in engineering, Environmental Studies, and in environmental-related humanities and social science research and teaching, position it uniquely to take part in a developing world discourse that is acknowledging and studying the complex interrelationship between human culture and ecology, and the place of culture in ecological restoration.

For More Information

Bioregion Resources on-line related to Culture and Ecology

Susquehanna Greenway Partnership

Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy

Bucknell Faculty Projects & other academic online resources

Chris Camuto, English Department

Glynis Carr, English Department

Renee Gosson, French Department

Ned Searles, Anthropology-Sociology Departments