Anna Creadick, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Matt Holtmeier, East Tennessee State University
Chelsea Wessels, East Tennessee State University
Moderator: Raza Rumi, The Edge and Park Center for Independent Media
A roundtable conversation unpacking the multiple voices of Appalachia, the floods, media representations, diverse communities, and climate grief
This event brings together three contributors to The Edge, the online magazine of the Park Center for Independent Media, to open up an urgent and significant dialogue about Appalachia, the floods, the environment, film and media representations, literature, and climate grief as multi-voiced and multi-layered ways to understand this important but often overlooked region in the United States.
Speakers
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Roundtable on Appalachia, the floods, media representations, climate grief
Anna Creadick, Matt Holtmeier, and Chelsea Wessels*
Friday, March 24, from 1-2 p.m. EST on Zoom
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldemspjkoGtChRazcysNm47zuyPWv1fFj
*All presenters are contributing writers for The Edge
Cosponsored with The Edge and the Park Center for Independent Media
Speakers' Bios
Anna Creadick teaches English and American Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. Author of Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America, she has written essays about 20th-Century U.S. literature and culture for Southern Cultures, Legacy, Mosaic, Appalachian Journal, and other publications. She divides her time between the Finger Lakes region of New York and the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina.
Read Anna Creadick's piece for The Edge, "On Appalachian Floods and Climate Grief"
Matthew Holtmeier is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at East Tennessee State University. He is author of Contemporary Political Cinema. He researches and writes on film-philosophy and environmental media, and his work has been published in Screen, Jump Cut, Film-Philosophy, Afterimage, Studies in the Humanities, The Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Journal for the Study of Nature, Religion, and Culture, Short Film Studies, and The Leonardo Electronic Almanac. He has also written for the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
Read Matt Holtmeier and Chelsea Wessel's piece for The Edge, "Floods, Dark Appalachia, and Environmental Horror"
Chelsea Wessels is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at East Tennessee State University. Her research interests include local cinema history and archives, global film genres, and feminist film. Her publications include writing for the National Film Registry as well as publications in Afterimage, Transformations, Frames, and Cinema Journal.
Read Matt Holtmeier and Chelsea Wessel's piece for The Edge, "Floods, Dark Appalachia, and Environmental Horror"
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