My research is broadly situated within the geohumanities and environmental humanities, cultural geography and creativity, human-environment geography, environmental studies, and critical methodologies.

Main research interests/areas include:

  • Geographies of Art & Science and Art & Environment
    eric magrane writing on biosphere 2 beach

    Eric Magrane writing on Biosphere 2 beach, photo by Kevin Bonine

  • Geopoetics and Ecopoetics, Creative Geographies
  • Geohumanities, Literary Geographies, and Environmental Humanities
  • Climate Change Narratives and Conceptions of the Anthropocene
  • Site Ontology, Site Specificity, and Site-based Arts practices
  • More-than-Human Geographies
  • Place and Representation
  • Bioregionalism and Place-based Writing and Artwork
  • Environmental Studies
  • Science Communication
  • Experimental Methodologies and Research Design

Recent Publications

Books

Magrane, E., L. Russo, S. de Leeuw, and C. Santos Perez, eds. 2020. Geopoetics in practice. London and New York: Routledge.

Magrane, E., C. Cokinos, and P. Mirocha, eds. 2016. The Sonoran Desert: A literary field guide. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Articles, Chapters, Essays, etc.

Magrane, E., and W. Burk. In press. Relationality in the online literary journal Spiral Orb. In Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities, ed. C. Travis, R. Legg, L. Bergmann, A. Crampsie, and D. Dixon. London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge.

Magrane, E., M. Buenemann, and J. Aguirre. 2021. Bringing literature and literary geographies into geospatial research teams. Literary Geographies 7 (2): 146–151.

Magrane, E. 2021. On form, self, and the potential of geopoetics. Dialogues in Human Geography 11 (1): 40–43.

Magrane, E. 2021. Climate geopoetics (The Earth is a composted poem). Dialogues in Human Geography. 11 (1): 8–22.

Clark, S., E. Magrane, T. Baumgartner, et al. 2020. 6&6: A transdisciplinary approach to art-science collaboration. BioScience. 70 (9): 821–829.

Magrane, E. 2020. Literary Field Guides and Poetic Inventories in the extended Rocky Mountain region. In The Rocky Mountain West: A Compendium of Geographic Perspectives, ed. M. Keables. Washington, DC: American Association of Geographers.

Magrane, E. 2020. Geopoetics. In The international encyclopedia of human geography, 2nd ed., ed. A. Kobayashi. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, London, UK and Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

Magrane, E. 2019. Applying the geohumanities. Applied geography in academia: Content, curricula, status, methods, and future [Special issue]. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research. 10 (2): 27-38.

de Leeuw, S. and Magrane, E. 2019. Geopoetics. In Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50, ed. Antipode Editorial Collective. 146-150.

Magrane, E. 2019. Review of Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field. Antipode.

Magrane, E. 2018. “Healing, belonging, resistance, and mutual care”: Reading Indigenous ecopoetics and climate narratives. Literary Geographies. 4 (2): 156–170.

Magrane, E. 2018. Bycatch; geopoetics. In Counter-desecration: A glossary for writing within the Anthropocene, ed. L. Russo and M. Reed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Magrane, E. 2017. Poems, conceptual challenge, and statement of ecopoetics. In Big energy poets: When ecopoets think climate change, ed. H. L. Staples and A. King. Buffalo, NY: BlazeVOX Books.

Magrane, E., and M. Johnson. 2017. An art-science approach to bycatch in the Gulf of California shrimp trawling fishery. Cultural Geographies.

Magrane, E. 2017. Writing the desert. In Creativity (Key Ideas in Geography Series), ed. H. Hawkins. London and New York: Routledge.

Magrane, E., W. Burk, and E. Quin-Easter. 2016. What will stand: Songs from (F)light, a collaborative borderlands song cycle. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 15 (2): 482-510.

Magrane, E. 2016. A poem is its own animal: Poetic encounters at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Ecotone 21:96-104.

Magrane, E. 2015. Situating geopoetics. GeoHumanities 1 (1): 86-102.

Mirocha, P., E. Magrane, B. Terkanian, M. Milstead, K. Koopman, D. Coleman, M. E. Wakamatsu, and M. Soria. 2015. The Tumamoc Hill Arts Initiative: A portfolio of site-based art and poetry inspired by a history of Sonoran Desert science. Journal of the Southwest 57 (2-3): 265-303.

Wilder, M., E. Magrane, M. Miele, D. Prytherch, R. Schein, M. Ingram, and H. Ingram. 2015. The power of narrative in environmental networks. AAG Review of Books 3 (2): 99-108.

Taylor, T., and E. Magrane. 2014. I can only pick up the stones and throw them like my voice. You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography 17:66-67.

Magrane, E. 2013. Cryptic species and compass points: A few gestures from the Conference on Ecopoetics (an experimental review). Emotion, Space and Society 11:116-118. 

Magrane, E. 2010/2011. Book review: The eco language reader, by Brenda Iijima. Rain Taxi Review of Books 15 (4): 44-45.         

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Selected Invited Talks, Conference Papers, and Panels

2022:

Plenary: Geo frequencies: In the thick of it. Invited talk. Geopoetics Symposium, Hollyhock. Cortes Island, BC.

Faculty workshop: Applying arts methods to climate and environmental research across the disciplines. Invited scholar/workshop leader (with A. Rowe). Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA.

Student workshop: Water forms: Re-imagining H2O through paint, poetry, and postcard. Invited scholar/workshop leader (with A. Rowe). Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA.

Plenary: Creative-critical practices for the Anthropocene: Thinking through place, poetry, and the visual arts. Invited talk. Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA.

Climate poems and new maps. Invited talk. Human Geography Research Group, University of Glasgow. Virtual seminar.

2021:

Geohumanities, climate geopoetics, and the Anthropocene. Invited talk. Department of Geography, University of Connecticut. Virtual colloquium.

Climate geopoetics. Invited talk. Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma. Virtual colloquium.

A transdisciplinary approach to art-science collaboration. Invited talk. GeoHumanidades, Arte y Biopolítica del Antropoceno [GeoHumanities, Art, and Biopolitics in the Anthropocene]. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Virtual seminar.

Organizer, chair, and panelist, Teaching the American West with High Country News. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Virtual conference.

Extending online discussions for deeper engagement. Presented at New Mexico State University Digital Learning/NMSU Community Colleges Quality in Online Education Conference. Virtual conference.

2020:

Reading and viewing acequia culture. Paper presented at Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Virtual conference.

Literary inventories and geopoetics in practice: Building the geohumanities in New Mexico and beyond. Invited talk. Annual Meeting of the New Mexico Fulbright Association.

The 6&6 team and Emily Underwood: Monterey Peninsula College STEAM 2.0. Invited talk/panel. Monterey Peninsula College. Virtual speaker series.

2019:

Panelist, Landscape forensics 2.0, part 2: Landscape forensics: Application. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2019. Washington, DC.

Storying climate change. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2019. Washington, DC.

Panelist, A new PhD program for New Mexico. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2019. Washington, DC.

2018:

Climate narratives, climate geopoetics. Paper presented at the Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. October 2018. Baton Rouge, LA.

Southwestern road trip as experiential field course. Paper presented at Experiential Learning in Geography Education panel, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2018. New Orleans, LA.

Panelist, Building the geo-humanities I: Constructing a field. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2018. New Orleans, LA.

Discussant, Geographies of education: Place-based pedagogy and learning I. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2018. New Orleans, LA.

Practicing the geohumanities: Literary field guides and collaborative art-science field research. Invited talk. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico. March 2018. Albuquerque, NM.

Climate geopoetics. Invited talk/working paper. Spatial Humanities Working Group, University of New Mexico. March 2018. Albuquerque, NM.

2017:

Panelist, Resistance/Resilience: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. June 2017. Detroit, MI.

Climate, history, and the poetry of place: The Sonoran Desert and beyond. Invited talk and site-based writing workshop. HIST 6382/4396: Critical Issues in Gulf Coast History, History Department and Center for Public History, University of Houston. March 2017. Houston, TX.

The Shame-faced crab and Shovelnose guitarfish: Bringing the environmental humanities to an art-science investigation of bycatch. Paper presented at Integrating the Environmental Humanities and Political Ecology panel, Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference. February 2017. Lexington, KY.

2016:

The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide. Paper presented at Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. October 2016. Portland, OR.

An art-science approach to bycatch in the Gulf of California shrimp trawler industry. Paper presented at Under Western Skies Conference. September 2016. Calgary, AB.

Panelist, Editor-Meets-Critics panel: The Sonoran Desert: A literary field guide. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2016. San Francisco, CA.

Reading Indigenous ecopoetics and the geographies and poetries of climate change. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2016. San Francisco, CA.

2015:

Go deep and be ready: Geographies and poetries of climate change. Paper presented at Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. October 2015. Palm Springs, CA.

Panelist, Transdisciplinary ecopoetic actions. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. June 2015. Moscow, ID.

Biosphere 2, poetry, and the Anthropocene. Paper presented at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2015. Chicago, IL.

Ecological encounters: Exploring human and non-human co-aesthetic production at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Paper presented at Oceans and Deserts: Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture within the Arts and Sciences. The University of Arizona Transcultural German Studies Symposium. March 2015. Tucson, AZ.

The soil I think of as time: Experiments in geopoetics. Paper presented at The University of Arizona Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium. February 2015. Tucson, AZ.

2014:

Biosphere 2, poetry, and the Anthropocene. Paper presented at Under Western Skies Conference on the Environment. September 2014. Calgary, AB.

Speculative more-than-human geopoetics. Paper presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2014. Tampa, FL.

Panelist, Author-Meets-Critics panel: The power of narrative in environmental networks. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2014. Tampa, FL.

Panelist, Thinking creatively about sustainability in higher education and the community. The University of Arizona Higher Education Sustainability Conference. March 2014. Tucson, AZ.

Creative encounters with species. Paper presented at Oceans and Deserts: Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture within the Arts and Sciences. The University of Arizona Transcultural German Studies Symposium. March 2014. Tucson, AZ.

2013:

Who is the camera? Experiments in material poetic geography at Biosphere 2. Paper presented at Rice University English Symposium on Ecology and the Environmental Humanities. September 2013. Houston, TX.

How to create a regional writing inventory. With C. Lettero & C. Goodrich. Roundtable presented at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference. June 2013. Lawrence, KS.

Rhizoglyphics: Toward a poetic geography. Paper presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2013. Los Angeles, CA.

Rhizoglyphics: Toward a poetic geography. Paper presented at The University of Arizona New Directions in Critical Theory Conference. April 2013. Tucson, AZ.

Conference Sessions Organized and Chaired

2014:

Co-chair and Panelist, Creative geographies, bodies, encounters. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. September 2014. Tucson, AZ.

Co-organizer and Chair, Place, practice, and eco-critical inhabitance. Under Western Skies Conference on the Environment. September 2014. Calgary, AB.

Organizer and Chair, Geopoetics (multiple sessions). American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2014. Tampa, FL.