Sean Keck

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Sean Keck is an Assistant Professor and the Director of English Graduate Studies at Radford University, where he teaches American literature and creative writing. His research focuses on literary encounters with other media (audio and film) with particular interest in representations of race and the environment.

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One of the saddest features of civilisation is the disappearance of so many beautiful and curious creatures from this world of ours. From all parts of the earth the same story comes; and we now seem to be within measurable distance of a time when wrecks and remnants of once compact and indigenous assemblages of organisms will be all that remain to us, and such a thing as a complete fauna will be unknown. —Charles Dixon, Lost and Vanishing Birds, 1898 Accounts of extinction frequently combine...