Bethany Wiggin
Biographic Data
| ID | 818752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bethany Wiggin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bethany |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiggin |
| SIGNATURE | WIGGIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Campus-Community Collaborations and Public Environmental Humanities on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia
The tidal Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, USA, presents a waterscape at once singular and uniquely local while also typical of a novel ecosystem. Heavy with centuries of legacy pollutants from coal and oil refining, the river water presents a liquid archive with few finding aids, catalogs, or guides. Propelled by a fundamental paradox (if “wisdom sits in places,” how do we know “forgotten places”), this article considers a series of collaborati…
Enduring colonial legacies in Philadelphia
By training, I am a cultural historian of early modern Europe and North America, and thus of the networks that created colonial Atlantic worlds, including the region that became known as Pennsylvania. The Schuylkill River is one of present-day Philadelphia's two rivers; it was named “hidden river” by Dutch explorers who knew it to be an important waterway from native informants but who couldn't find its mouth amidst the lush marsh that straddled …
Restoring a River, Re-storying History
This essay zooms in on an unloved stretch of Philadelphia's tidal Schuylkill River, long home to the largest petroleum refinery on the United States' East Coast, the cradle of petromodernity. In the aftermath of the refinery's spectacular explosion in 2019, city officials were confronted by the data poverty in this sacrifice zone where many residents live in analog poverty. The essay contributes to our understanding of urban waters in two ways. F…
Enduring Harm: Unlikely Comparisons, Slow Violence and the Administration of Urban Injustice
In this comparative and collaborative collection of essays we work through contemporary and historical practices of governing urban waters in Philadelphia and Mumbai. Taken together, the essays in this collection argue that events of enduring harm visited upon racialized, marginalized citizens are produced through slow bureaucratic processes of aversion, ambiguation and ambivalence, perpetuated in and through regulatory regimes, water quality sta…
Post-Critical Affordances of Environmental Humanities
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities - Volume 10, Number 1-2, Winter 2022/Spring 2023
Babel of the Atlantic
"A collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture"--Provided by publisher.
Babel of the Atlantic
Despite shifting trends in the study of Oceanic Atlantic history, the colonial Atlantic world as it is described by historians today continues to be a largely English-only space; even when other language communities are examined, they, too, are considered to be monolingual and discrete. Babel of the Atlantic pushes back against this monolingual fallacy by documenting multilingualism, translation, and fluid movement across linguistic borders. Focu…
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
World Literature and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1701
In histories of the eighteenth-century novel, few scholars pause in Amsterdam; still fewer stop in Leipzig. After the publication in 1957 of Ian Watt’s seminal study, all scholarly routes to the novel lead instead to London. There, the novel supposedly first rose, buoyed on the pages of a mariner’s “true” story and by the news pages eager to expose its true author. The novel rose, that is, sometime after Crusoe’s big splash in 1719. So what do th…
Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Cross-disciplinary perspectives on responses to material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany trace how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and made sense of deprivation through a spectrum of activities, often turning loss into gain and acquiring agency.
The Geography of Fashionability: Drinking Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Leipzig
Enduring loss in early modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Staging Shi'ites in Silesia: Andreas Gryphius's Catharina von Georgien
This essay slices through the thicket of confessional politics which has long informed scholarship on Gryphius's famous baroque Trauerspiel, Catharina von Georgien. Taking its cue from a late Gryphian sonnet, it instead explores the implications of Gryphius's citation of his own Shah Abbas, the Georgian queen Catharina's tormenter, to document his thunderous erudition. Expanding the geography of our critical gaze, the article argues, enables us t…
The Geography of Fashionability: Drinking Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Leipzig
Restoring a River, Re-storying History
This essay zooms in on an unloved stretch of Philadelphia's tidal Schuylkill River, long home to the largest petroleum refinery on the United States' East Coast, the cradle of petromodernity. In the aftermath of the refinery's spectacular explosion in 2019, city officials were confronted by the data poverty in this sacrifice zone where many residents live in analog poverty. The essay contributes to our understanding of urban waters in two ways. F…
Enduring Harm: Unlikely Comparisons, Slow Violence and the Administration of Urban Injustice
In this comparative and collaborative collection of essays we work through contemporary and historical practices of governing urban waters in Philadelphia and Mumbai. Taken together, the essays in this collection argue that events of enduring harm visited upon racialized, marginalized citizens are produced through slow bureaucratic processes of aversion, ambiguation and ambivalence, perpetuated in and through regulatory regimes, water quality sta…
Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Cross-disciplinary perspectives on responses to material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany trace how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and made sense of deprivation through a spectrum of activities, often turning loss into gain and acquiring agency.
The Geography of Fashionability: Drinking Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Leipzig
Enduring loss in early modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Staging Shi'ites in Silesia: Andreas Gryphius's Catharina von Georgien
This essay slices through the thicket of confessional politics which has long informed scholarship on Gryphius's famous baroque Trauerspiel, Catharina von Georgien. Taking its cue from a late Gryphian sonnet, it instead explores the implications of Gryphius's citation of his own Shah Abbas, the Georgian queen Catharina's tormenter, to document his thunderous erudition. Expanding the geography of our critical gaze, the article argues, enables us t…
The Geography of Fashionability: Drinking Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Leipzig
World Literature and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1701
In histories of the eighteenth-century novel, few scholars pause in Amsterdam; still fewer stop in Leipzig. After the publication in 1957 of Ian Watt’s seminal study, all scholarly routes to the novel lead instead to London. There, the novel supposedly first rose, buoyed on the pages of a mariner’s “true” story and by the news pages eager to expose its true author. The novel rose, that is, sometime after Crusoe’s big splash in 1719. So what do th…
Babel of the Atlantic
"A collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture"--Provided by publisher.
Babel of the Atlantic
Despite shifting trends in the study of Oceanic Atlantic history, the colonial Atlantic world as it is described by historians today continues to be a largely English-only space; even when other language communities are examined, they, too, are considered to be monolingual and discrete. Babel of the Atlantic pushes back against this monolingual fallacy by documenting multilingualism, translation, and fluid movement across linguistic borders. Focu…
Teaching the Environmental Humanities
This article provides the first international overview and detailed discussion of teaching in the environmental humanities (EH). It is divided into three parts. The first offers a series of regional overviews: where, when, and how EH teaching is taking place. This part highlights some key regional variability in the uptake of teaching in this area, emphasizing important differences in cultural and pedagogical contexts. The second part is a critic…
Restoring a River, Re-storying History
This essay zooms in on an unloved stretch of Philadelphia's tidal Schuylkill River, long home to the largest petroleum refinery on the United States' East Coast, the cradle of petromodernity. In the aftermath of the refinery's spectacular explosion in 2019, city officials were confronted by the data poverty in this sacrifice zone where many residents live in analog poverty. The essay contributes to our understanding of urban waters in two ways. F…
Enduring Harm: Unlikely Comparisons, Slow Violence and the Administration of Urban Injustice
In this comparative and collaborative collection of essays we work through contemporary and historical practices of governing urban waters in Philadelphia and Mumbai. Taken together, the essays in this collection argue that events of enduring harm visited upon racialized, marginalized citizens are produced through slow bureaucratic processes of aversion, ambiguation and ambivalence, perpetuated in and through regulatory regimes, water quality sta…
Post-Critical Affordances of Environmental Humanities
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities - Volume 10, Number 1-2, Winter 2022/Spring 2023
Enduring colonial legacies in Philadelphia
By training, I am a cultural historian of early modern Europe and North America, and thus of the networks that created colonial Atlantic worlds, including the region that became known as Pennsylvania. The Schuylkill River is one of present-day Philadelphia's two rivers; it was named “hidden river” by Dutch explorers who knew it to be an important waterway from native informants but who couldn't find its mouth amidst the lush marsh that straddled …
Campus-Community Collaborations and Public Environmental Humanities on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia
The tidal Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, USA, presents a waterscape at once singular and uniquely local while also typical of a novel ecosystem. Heavy with centuries of legacy pollutants from coal and oil refining, the river water presents a liquid archive with few finding aids, catalogs, or guides. Propelled by a fundamental paradox (if “wisdom sits in places,” how do we know “forgotten places”), this article considers a series of collaborati…
Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 works)