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Malcolm Sen

@malcolmsen
 Amherst, MA
Joined October 2009
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My essay on Irish Climate Fiction in The Irish Times yesterday. ‘We are living through the sixth extinction’: How contemporary Irish writers are pointedly addressing the climate crisis ⁦⁦@CaoilinnHughes⁩ ⁦@UMassEnglish⁩ ⁦@UMassHFA⁩ irishtimes.com/culture/books…
‘We are living through the sixth extinction’: How contemporary Irish writers are pointedly addres...

‘We are living through the sixth extinction’: How contemporary Irish writers are pointedly addres...

Poetry cannot change the world, Seamus Heaney once said. But he also went on to clarify that what poetry could do is to allow the world to be viewed afresh

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Friends, I am having a small book launch to welcome Irish Anthropocene into the world on the 29th of May at 4pm in Amherst Books. If you are around and can spare the time, it will be wonderful to have you there. Please come along!
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I wrote about long distance train travel and the lineage of writers who traversed Europe by rail, for the @guardian theguardian.com/travel/2025/…
James Joyce went by train from Dublin to Trieste. A hundred years on, it’s a very different...

James Joyce went by train from Dublin to Trieste. A hundred years on, it’s a very different...

It is more than a century since Joyce crossed Europe by rail but there is still inspiration to be found on the overland journey to Trieste

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Looking forward to hosting @CaoilinnHughes @UMassAmherst next month.
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We’re delighted to announce that Malcolm Sen will return for the 2025 Trieste Joyce School! Malcolm is Associate Professor of English at UMass Amherst and will lead a special seminar on the environmental humanities for this year’s school.
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As we continue our buildup to St. Patrick’s Day, we are delighted to release the second episode of our feature film!☘️ Ep 02 dives deeper into the shared struggle for independence, highlighting how Ireland & India’s bonds of resilience, freedom, & solidarity inspired each other.
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We’re delighted to announce that Arianna Autieri will be speaking at the 2025 Trieste Joyce School! Arianna is Lecturer in English and Translation Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Looking forward to speaking at Boston College this weekend on Environmental Citizenship: The Ecology of Contemporary Irish Poetry @UMassHFA @UMassEnglish @abeggvariations
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Join us this Saturday for the 8th annual #Comhfhios conference! An Irish Studies conference for grad students organized by grad students, we're thrilled to host students from New York, Aberdeen, Boston, Belfast, and other locations! Come listen to some fascinating research!
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Really looking forward to moderating Bill McKibben’s lecture this evening at UMass. @UMassEnglish @UMassHFA umass.edu/english/events/bac…
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Looking forward to Ashoka University this afternoon!
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Join me if you can at 1pm EST for the ASLE Spotlight seminar
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Really worth reading this twice: "As pressures increase and the risk of Earth's climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse."
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"As pressures increase and the risk of Earth's climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse." 😬 Read that twice!
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State of Global Water Resources 2023

State of Global Water Resources 2023

The State of Global Water Resources report highlights severe stress on global water supplies, with five consecutive years of below-normal river flows and reservoir inflows. This shortage is affecting...

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Here's the reality of carbon capture and storage, after 50 years of practice: a bonanza for oil companies, but useless as a mitigation measure. desmog.com/2023/09/25/fossil…
Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. Here’s What Actually Happened.

Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. Here’s What Actually Happened.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel...

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RIP Frederick Jameson
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Between 2002 and 2023, Antarctica shed an average of 150 billion metric tons of ice per year The Thwaites Glacier is ‘hanging on by its fingernails’: buff.ly/44yHuVv There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables
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Malcolm Sen has been named a @UMassAmherst Spotlight Scholar! Read Sen's profile: umass.edu/gateway/research/s…
Malcolm Sen | UMass Amherst

Malcolm Sen | UMass Amherst

Malcolm Sen, associate professor of English at UMass Amherst, is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities.

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