Date of Award
12-18-2025
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
English
First Advisor
Kristin Denslow
Second Advisor
Kylene Cave
Abstract
As technology advances and the environment deteriorates, the way people view the relationships between technology, wilderness, and humans becomes essential for society to move forward. To investigate perceptions about technology’s place in an environmentally conscious society, this project examines manifestations of wilderness/wildness and technology in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series through the lens of ecocriticism. Using Timothy Morton's concept of the ecological thought as a framework for analysis, the circumstances present in the novel suggest that the triangle separating humans, wilderness, and technology has actually collapsed, replaced by an enmeshment of technology, wilderness, and humanity.
Recommended Citation
Moore, Melissa, "Wild Robots: Humans, Wilderness, and Technology in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot Series" (2025). Honors Theses. 314.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/314
Subject Area
Chambers, Becky. Monk and Robot; Technology and civilization; Ecology in literature; Science fiction;
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