ZOMBIESCAPES & 

PHANTOM ZONES

“In addition to bringing an ecocritical lens to so-called ugly, monstrous creatures and liminal zones, Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones constructs a unique archive spanning nations throughout the Americas and the genres of novel, poetry, and graphic fiction.”
—Heather Houser, author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect
“Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones takes as its focus an ecocritical (re)reading of five fairly canonical works of literature and one popular graphic novel series. This is strong, interesting, and important scholarship.”
—Patrick B. Sharp, author of Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture

ECOSUBLIME

“Ecosublime is a genuinely engaging and provocative demonstration of contemporary ecocritical practice, pushing the edges of the discipline in a variety of exciting ways. . . . Rather than arguing simply that certain contemporary authors such as Wendell Berry and Barry Lopez are extending the classical tradition of the sublime aesthetic in their recent environmental fiction and poetry, Rozelle shows how the particular forms of awe and horror that accompany the ecosublime force the human subject into radical new psychological and political stances and may serve to force not only literary characters but real-world authors and audiences to rethink their lives and their relation to the Earth.”
— Scott Slovic