by Dr. Lowell Duckert
Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware
Wednesday 18 February 2026 | 18:00
Bookings: 22797400 (Mon-Fri 9:00 – 14:30)
The lecture is organized in collaboration with the University of Cyprus
How do the blue humanities complicate terrestrial ways of knowing and being in the world: our talk of “fields,” feeling “grounded,” or being “moored”? This talk investigates watery thinking and its various interdisciplinary currents — like critical race, media, and animal studies — across a wide range of time periods and genres. Why should we follow their flows, and where else can they go?
Dr. Lowell Duckert received his B.A. from Western Washington University (2004), his M.A. from Arizona State University (2007), and his Ph.D. from The George Washington University (2012). He specializes in early modern drama and travel literature, environmental criticism, new materialism (especially actor–network theory), and water studies. He has published on various topics such as glaciers, polar bears, the color maroon, rain, fleece, mountaintop removal mining, and lagoons. In general, his work attempts to reshape present-day relations between humans and nonhumans by plumbing premodern wet worlds. With Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, he is the editor of Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire; and Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking (nominated for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment’s Ecocriticism Book Award). His book For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) was short-listed for the Michelle Kendrick Book Prize from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. His latest book, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World, arrived August 2025 (also from Minnesota).