Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Writing and Literature Program at Deakin University, Australia. He is author of 30 books, including Wetland Cultures: Ancient, Traditional, Contemporary (2024), Middlemarsh: The Hopkins River, Kindred Wetlands and Remarkable People (2023), and Cities and Wetlands: The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Beyond the green humanities and blue humanities, this delightfully kaleidoscopic study awakens the possibility of, and multiple possibilities for, a blue-green terraqueous humanities. Giblett’s marvelously inspired reading of Thoreau and Benjamin places them in a critical constellation that illuminates overlooked aspects of their individual work as well as unexpected connections between them. * Jason Groves, Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Washington, USA * To be ‘woke’ to the essence of life is to be awake to the ecologic richness of wetland environments. From this starting point, Giblett successfully finds common ground between two philosophers from their respective centuries that can help move our 21st-century world forward toward environmental sanity. * Robert Thorson, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Connecticut, USA *