The field I’ve worked in for the last few decades, which has come to be known as the Environmental Humanities (capitalized or not), is one that requires keeping up with ongoing scholarship not only in the humanities, but also in the social sciences and the biological and earth sciences. From my reading of the field, […]
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Woodsworth Chair: Three challenges
Posted in Academe, Manifestos & auguries, tagged eco-humanities, environmental humanities, eugenics, humanities, J. S. Woodsworth, post-human, posthumanism, posthumanities, Simon Fraser University, Woodsworth Chair on November 22, 2023 | 6 Comments »
I’m delighted to formally announce that I have accepted an offer to take up the position of J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, beginning next year. (Simon Fraser recently, once again, took the top spot among comprehensive universities in Macleans’ Canadian university rankings.) The chair is named after J. S. Woodsworth (1874-1942), […]
State of the Eco-Humanities, Take 1
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged academic initiatives, conferences, eco-arts, eco-humanities, engaged scholarship, environmental humanities on June 8, 2016 | 4 Comments »
This post is the first of a series of reflections on the state of the Environmental Humanities, or Eco-Humanities, and of where this interdisciplinary field might be headed. A note on terminology: The term “Environmental Humanities” has caught on in ways that “Eco-Humanities” and other variations have not, but the debate between them has hardly occurred, […]
Eco-humanities glossolalia
Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, tagged eco-humanities, environmental humanities on September 18, 2015 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just come across the earliest outline I wrote for the course I’m currently teaching (in its third incarnation), “Environmental Literature, Arts, and Media.” The course has also turned into a book project I’m working on, which will be a thematic primer to the environmental arts and humanities. Both course and book have changed shape so […]
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