An emerging leader in the field of ecocriticism, Vin Nardizzi will present "The Grass is Greener" as a part of the Biever Lecture Series on Tuesday, February 19th at 5pm in the Whitney Presentation room. 

Nardizzi's lecture will examine the destructive potential of humans' affinity for green spaces. Taking examples from postwar narratives of killer plants that attack humans, Nardizzi offers a critique of what he calls "lawn mentality”--the impulse to fabricate, enclose, and protect green spaces--and the ideologies of privilege and power that sustain such impulses.

Nardizzi is assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches Renaissance literature, ecocriticism, and queer and disability studies.