The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

<strong>Deanna Kreisel is an associate professor of English and co-director of the environmental studies program at the University of Mississippi. She has published widely on Victorian literature and ecocriticism. Her academic work can be found on</strong> <strong><a class="LexicalEditorTheme__link" href="http://www.deannakreisel.com/">her website</a> and her essays on <a class="LexicalEditorTheme__link" href="http://www.doctorwaffle.substack.com/">Substack.</a></strong>

Deanna K. Kreisel

Leaving Me My Eyes: On Andrew Leland’s “The Country of the Blind”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Deanna Kreisel is an associate professor of English and co-director of the environmental studies program at the University of Mississippi. She has published widely on Victorian literature and ecocriticism. Her academic work can be found on <a class="LexicalEditorTheme__link" href="http://www.deannakreisel.com/">her website</a> and her essays on <a class="LexicalEditorTheme__link" href="http://www.doctorwaffle.substack.com/">Substack.</a>

Deanna K. Kreisel

Articles

Leaving Me My Eyes: On Andrew Leland’s “The Country of the Blind”