"Loren Eiseley and the Subterranean World" with Susan Maher

Online Event: Loren Eiseley and the Subterranean World with Susan Maher

Date: Saturday, June 25, 2022

Starting Time: 2pm CDT

Zoom Connection Info: Click to check the LES Facebook Group for posted information

The Loren Eiseley Society invites you to attend our next Public Forum via Zoom on Saturday, June 25th at 2 PM CDT.  Our special guest is Susan Maher, PhD and her topic will be  “Loren Eiseley and the Subterranean World.” All are welcome to join us!

For information on how to log in, check the Loren Eiseley Facebook Group or email hello@eiseley.org

Across Loren Eiseley’s oeuvre, revelations about science, humanity, and the natural world often happen in subterranean spaces. Whether exploring deep time or more personal, psychological disturbances, Eiseley is drawn to tunnels, cellars, culverts, and caves. In the dark, he probes connections between past and present, collapsing time and space into lyrical encounters with all manner of life forms, whether fossilized or living. His essays, often journeys in the dark, uncover truths about life, death, and the boundless realms of the human imagination.

Susan Maher co-edited “Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley” with Tom Lynch. Her book “Deep Map Country” also includes a chapter on Eiseley. She has published widely on Great Plains writers, including Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner, and John Janovy, Jr. Her current book project is “Authoring Landscapes: Literary Pilgrimage in the Interior of North America.” She is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth.