Local News: Wes Anderson and/in the Anthropocene

* I’m giving a short talk at 1 PM tomorrow in the Marquette Hall commons as part of the English Faculty Research series. The title is “Science Fiction and Utopia in the Anthropocene.” If you miss it, don’t worry, I’ll be giving another version of the same talk for the��Environments & Societies Workshop at UC Davis at the end of April. We can fly over together.

* We’re also having the first of our English department Pop Culture Nights on Wednesday, February 18, at 5 PM, in honor of The Grand Budapest Hotel almost certainly not winning the Oscar. I plan to bend everyone to the inexorable will of the Wes Anderson Power Rankings 2015…