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Speaker:  Chris Fink, Professor of English, Beloit College

In the increasingly shrill media environment, what role does story-telling play in environmental studies? Can quiet personal stories still be heard among the louder voices? Can they nudge people toward a fuller participation with the outside? Fink, who has published two books of fiction and has also told stories on stage, will discuss his own personal story-telling approach in this newer, condensed medium, and he’ll share some of his radio essays. In the summer, Fink teaches a class called “Writing Wilderness” in Minnesota’s boundary waters, the setting for a few of these minorpieces. He’ll also talk about this class—and the Coe Wilderness Field Station—which is popular with ACM students.

Fiction writer Chris Fink has been writing monthly 90-second radio essays for NPR for the last three years. These essays, which he calls minorpieces, explore intersections between the self and the environment.

Refreshments provided.