Hillary Eklund is Professor of English at Grinnell College, where she specializes in literatures of the 16th and 17th centuries. She has written or edited several books and articles on early modern literature, colonialism, and racial and environmental justice. Her current book project describes how wetlands, often perceived as nature’s mistakes, both compel and elude human designs in the 17th century. Wetlands, she argues, demonstrate a series of “unfast” countermoves to the fast violence of colonial incursion and technological imposition, and to the slow violence of ecological manipulation and resource expropriation.
Of Black Waters and Happy Islands: Visions of the Terraqueous Globe in Early Modernity
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