Writing History: Storytelling in the Environmental Humanities

24/02/2024 30 min
Writing History: Storytelling in the Environmental Humanities

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Tony interviews Pulitzer-winning historian Jack E. Davis (author of W.W. Norton's The Gulf, The Bald Eagle, and others). They discuss the creative process behind composing academic scholarship: how using a varied vocabulary and sentence structure is essential; why researching and writing simultaneously is useful; and how, in Davis's words, letting nature "tell me how it wants to be written" is a pleasure. Davis is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Florida.