Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦

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The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1

Great blue heron in center of the image.
List of most versatile and employable degrees from Forbes magazine has English right at the top.
Front cover of Kiskisomitok, by Rueben Quinn. Title in English letters and Cree syllabics.
Deeply rose-coloured prairie wildflowers shaped like small elfin caps drooping toward the ground.
Tiny pink flower with a base of round leaves.
Ladies slippers.
Poem is from p118 of Don McKay’s Camber: Selected Poems, with copious annotations by me.
There are more than 630 First Nations across Canada and more than 70 Indigenous languages.
Front cover of 2026 book Talk Treaty to Me: Understanding the Basics of Treaties and Land in Canada.
Cover image of Touch the Dragon: a Thai Journal. Water buffalo in the foreground, a tree in the background.
Furry crocuses.
Particularly purple crocuses.
Deer on the side of the hill quietly sharing a space with me.
West coast scene of two seals on a rock in the ocean, with a rock formation (a stone archway) in the background. Trees.
Rebecca Giggs, Fathoms: The World in the Whale (2020)
Coyote reading the tracks on the other side of the river.
White-tailed deer 🦌 on a ridge above the river.
Photo of writer and journalist Waubgeshig Rice
Deer crossing the river.
Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta cowering at the airport after invoking the Notwithstanding Clause.
Two sets of deer ears in long grasses.
All ears. Deer lying in tall grasses.
A large airy nest.
Muffin with tiny piece of blue cheese.
Coronation grape muffins
Grape muffins
Elderly woman in a black or dark brown coat and with a wild swirl of twigs as headgear.
Photo of one male deer 🦌
Two spotted whitetail deer fawns browsing the vegetation.
A regular corncob and a conjoined baby cob.
Orange sunset.
Trying to ID a flower, paintbrush or bellflower.
Paintbrush?
Camas
Wild rose bright pink in the middle radiating out to paler pink (not characteristic).
Shooting star.
Cover image is of a mountain in the centre and a plethora of plants in the foreground. Thx to alt-text because I’d never noticed the cover image before.
Variegated perogies in different colours and flavours.
Deer in creek.
Cattails refulgent with seeds.
Front cover of Murray Sinclair’s book Who We Are, a photo of his face.
Photo of a woman in a lavender jacket.
Crocus, backlit.
Picture irrelevant. It’s the words under the pic.
First crocus 2025.
Stack of 22 books of poetry and nonfiction and one kids’ novel I first read in grade 3.
Book entitled Theory of Water, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
Cover of Omar El Akkad’s book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
A stack of 15 books.
Books by Mark Carney, Murray Sinclair, Justin Trudeau, and a book about landscape in British literature by Margaret Drabble.
Deborah Bird Rose, Shimmer Joshua Schuster, What is Extinction? Denise L. Herzing, Is Anyone Listening: What Animals are Saying to Each Other and to Us
Cover of Recollections of My Nonexistence with image of author in a little black dress and matching gloves facing a wall.