Erin James
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Idaho |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0172-5292 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives
“I Was Born!”
This essay, co-written by a dendrochronologist (Nick) and a narrative theorist (Erin), considers how these two disciplines can meet to illuminate alternative narratives in tree rings. At the basis of our conversation is a desire to tease apart tree experience and the signification entangled within human practices of storytelling. First, Nick explains recent developments in dendrochronology and critical physical geography (CPG) that call attention…
Behavioral interventions for vaccination uptake
Moral foundations and HPV vaccine acceptance in the United States
Narrative in the Anthropocene
Introduction: Anthropocene narrative theory -- Worlds -- Material -- Time -- Space -- Narration -- Coda: Narrative and climate science
The Postcolonial Nonhuman. An Introduction
Introduction to the guest edited section
Afterword
AfterwordEconarratology Then, Now, and Later Erin James (bio) Econarratology is a project born of frustration and disconnect. As a graduate student, I struggled to pair the ecocritical theory that I was reading with the postcolonial texts that I was meant to be analyzing. I valued the work of scholars such as Jonathan Bate, Lawrence Buell, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Scott Slovic for its clear-eyed insistence that the environment matters and that lite…
Linking therapeutic (is)landscapes, experiences of digitality and the quest for wellbeing
In this paper we examine experiences associated with tourism on Turtle Island, an exclusive privately-owned island resort in Fiji. Tropical islands have long been marketed as ‘getaways’ and places where tourists seek wellbeing. Our study considers the affective experiences and recollections of visitors as well as the views of workers at such resorts. Through mobilising the therapeutic (is)landscape idea and the concept of digitality, we advocate …
Nonhuman Fictional Characters and the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis
Highlighting a trend in current models of narrative empathy that suggests that readers' ability to empathize with nonhuman characters is dependent wholly on anthropomorphization, this essay explores two narratives that feature chimp characters-Colin McAdam's A Beautiful Truth and Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves-to consider the challenges that nonhuman characters pose to such models and the empathy-altruism hypothesis. It…
Non-technical health care quality and health system responsiveness in middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: While there is increasing recognition that the non-technical aspects of health care quality - particularly the inter-personal dimensions of care - are important components of health system performance, evidence from population-based studies on these outcomes in low- and middle-income countries is sparse. This study assesses these non-technical aspects of care using two measures: health system responsiveness (HSR), which quantifies the…
Distributional health and financial benefits of increased tobacco taxes in Colombia
The tobacco tax increase passed by Colombia has substantial implications for the country's population health and financial well-being, with large benefits likely to accrue to the two poorest quintiles of the population
Ecocriticism and Narrative Theory
This collection of essays follows upon the success of a previous special issue of English Studies focused on ecocriticism, edited by Astrid Bracke and Marguerite Corporaal and published in November
Immersed in the Storyworld
“Immersed in the Storyworld: Rotten English and Orality in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy”1 Erin James (bio) Perhaps the most striking thing about Ken Saro-Wiwa’s novel about the Nigerian Civil War, Sozaboy (1985), is that he references oil only once in the text, in passing. The novel’s narrator and protagonist Mene—a naïve young man struggling to decipher the political and economic forces that shape his world—speaks of the natural resource in a metapho…
The Storyworld Accord
The Storyworld Accord
Teaching the Postcolonial/Ecocritical Dialogue
Postcolonial Ecologies
Perhaps the greatest contribution Postcolonial Ecologies makes to the study of literature and the environment is to unequivocally dispel the myth that postcolonial writers have not been attentive to nature. In their introduction to this strong new collection of essays, Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley go to great lengths to illustrate the disparate and nuanced environmental tradition within postcolonial literature and theory. They prefa…
Teaching the Postcolonial/Ecocritical Dialogue
Postcolonial ecocriticism is fast establishing itself as a major dialogue of contemporary literary studies. Lawrence Buell’s The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005) observes the emergence of a ‘second wave’ of ecocriticism that pushes the parameters of conventional ecocriticism, which he sees as largely focused on American and British nature writing. This second wave, Buell argues, is critical of scientific metanarrative, open to constructiv…
Frontiers in the Welfare State
Ecocriticism and Narrative Theory
This collection of essays follows upon the success of a previous special issue of English Studies focused on ecocriticism, edited by Astrid Bracke and Marguerite Corporaal and published in November
Nonhuman Fictional Characters and the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis
Highlighting a trend in current models of narrative empathy that suggests that readers' ability to empathize with nonhuman characters is dependent wholly on anthropomorphization, this essay explores two narratives that feature chimp characters-Colin McAdam's A Beautiful Truth and Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves-to consider the challenges that nonhuman characters pose to such models and the empathy-altruism hypothesis. It…
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives
Moral foundations and HPV vaccine acceptance in the United States
Frontiers in the Welfare State
Frontiers in the Welfare State
Teaching the Postcolonial/Ecocritical Dialogue
Postcolonial ecocriticism is fast establishing itself as a major dialogue of contemporary literary studies. Lawrence Buell’s The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005) observes the emergence of a ‘second wave’ of ecocriticism that pushes the parameters of conventional ecocriticism, which he sees as largely focused on American and British nature writing. This second wave, Buell argues, is critical of scientific metanarrative, open to constructiv…
Postcolonial Ecologies
Perhaps the greatest contribution Postcolonial Ecologies makes to the study of literature and the environment is to unequivocally dispel the myth that postcolonial writers have not been attentive to nature. In their introduction to this strong new collection of essays, Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley go to great lengths to illustrate the disparate and nuanced environmental tradition within postcolonial literature and theory. They prefa…
Teaching the Postcolonial/Ecocritical Dialogue
The Storyworld Accord
The Storyworld Accord
Immersed in the Storyworld
“Immersed in the Storyworld: Rotten English and Orality in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy”1 Erin James (bio) Perhaps the most striking thing about Ken Saro-Wiwa’s novel about the Nigerian Civil War, Sozaboy (1985), is that he references oil only once in the text, in passing. The novel’s narrator and protagonist Mene—a naïve young man struggling to decipher the political and economic forces that shape his world—speaks of the natural resource in a metapho…
Non-technical health care quality and health system responsiveness in middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: While there is increasing recognition that the non-technical aspects of health care quality - particularly the inter-personal dimensions of care - are important components of health system performance, evidence from population-based studies on these outcomes in low- and middle-income countries is sparse. This study assesses these non-technical aspects of care using two measures: health system responsiveness (HSR), which quantifies the…
Distributional health and financial benefits of increased tobacco taxes in Colombia
The tobacco tax increase passed by Colombia has substantial implications for the country's population health and financial well-being, with large benefits likely to accrue to the two poorest quintiles of the population
Ecocriticism and Narrative Theory
This collection of essays follows upon the success of a previous special issue of English Studies focused on ecocriticism, edited by Astrid Bracke and Marguerite Corporaal and published in November
Nonhuman Fictional Characters and the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis
Highlighting a trend in current models of narrative empathy that suggests that readers' ability to empathize with nonhuman characters is dependent wholly on anthropomorphization, this essay explores two narratives that feature chimp characters-Colin McAdam's A Beautiful Truth and Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves-to consider the challenges that nonhuman characters pose to such models and the empathy-altruism hypothesis. It…
Linking therapeutic (is)landscapes, experiences of digitality and the quest for wellbeing
In this paper we examine experiences associated with tourism on Turtle Island, an exclusive privately-owned island resort in Fiji. Tropical islands have long been marketed as ‘getaways’ and places where tourists seek wellbeing. Our study considers the affective experiences and recollections of visitors as well as the views of workers at such resorts. Through mobilising the therapeutic (is)landscape idea and the concept of digitality, we advocate …
Afterword
AfterwordEconarratology Then, Now, and Later Erin James (bio) Econarratology is a project born of frustration and disconnect. As a graduate student, I struggled to pair the ecocritical theory that I was reading with the postcolonial texts that I was meant to be analyzing. I valued the work of scholars such as Jonathan Bate, Lawrence Buell, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Scott Slovic for its clear-eyed insistence that the environment matters and that lite…
Narrative in the Anthropocene
Introduction: Anthropocene narrative theory -- Worlds -- Material -- Time -- Space -- Narration -- Coda: Narrative and climate science
The Postcolonial Nonhuman. An Introduction
Introduction to the guest edited section
Behavioral interventions for vaccination uptake
Moral foundations and HPV vaccine acceptance in the United States
“I Was Born!”
This essay, co-written by a dendrochronologist (Nick) and a narrative theorist (Erin), considers how these two disciplines can meet to illuminate alternative narratives in tree rings. At the basis of our conversation is a desire to tease apart tree experience and the signification entangled within human practices of storytelling. First, Nick explains recent developments in dendrochronology and critical physical geography (CPG) that call attention…
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives
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