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From at least as early as the Renaissance, our lives are increasingly being played out in what Jürgen Habermas once dubbed the “public sphere.” Yet, even as the 21st century unfolds, much of academia remains behind closed doors. This needs to change. My name is Ken Hiltner and this website is a effort to make public my academic life. (more)

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Ken Hiltner published two new books in 2011, What Else is Pastoral? Renaissance Literature and the Environment and Environmental Criticism for the 21st Century, and has another, Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader, coming out in late 2012.

See Research for details on all books.

Website

This is a green website. Between three and four percent of global electricity production goes to running data centers. Our web host has invested in local Renewable Energy Credits, in the form of wind power, in an amount that exceeds the energy required to power and cool their servers (more).

Above scenes from Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré