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Skinner edits the journal ecopoetics (vols. 1-5, 2001-2005), focused on creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. A published poet himself (Political Cactus Poems, 2005), he writes ecocriticism on contemporary poetry and poetics--essays exploring the role of aesthetics in intersections between nature and culture, and the role of language in our perceptions of the natural world. He takes an active interest in soundscape studies, including the art of bird song. Skinner's emphasis on relations between cultural diversity and biodiversity has also led him to work in ethnopoetics, the dialogical engagement with cultures based in non-western languages. These interests are dealt with in his Ph.D. dissertation, Ecopoetics: Outsider Poetries of the Twentieth Century, completed for the SUNY Buffalo English Department (2005). In addition, he has published poetry translations from Spanish, French and Old Occitan.
To access the web site for the journal ecopoetics, go to: http://www.ecopoetics.org/
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Skinner, Jonathan E.
Assistant Professor
207-753-6941
111 Bardwell Street, Room 105
jskinner@bates.edu
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