Robert Emmett

Robert Emmett (Col ’01) has released Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of U.S. Garden Writing (University of Massachusetts Press), an analysis of mid-20th-century garden writing. Drawing on ecocriticism, environmental history, landscape architecture and recent work in environmental justice and food studies, the book explores how the language of environmental justice emerged in descriptions of gardening across a variety of literary forms. Mr. Emmett is visiting assistant professor of environmental studies at Roanoke College.