Introduction to Environmental Humanities

Environmental Humanities (EH) has emerged in recent years as a field aiming to bring the humanities together for scholarship, teaching, and community-based research in a world that is facing climate catastrophe and environmental crisis. In symbiotic collaboration, the humanities are working to meet the challenges of a growing climate crisis and are particularly well-suited to contribute to reimagining futures and re-theorizing humanity’s relation to our entangled nature-culture worlds. Environmental Humanities necessarily draws from multiple areas of expertise in the humanities, such as English, Ethnic Studies, History, and Philosophy, and it leverages a wide range of faculty and student interests. The proposed course, “Introduction to Environmental Humanities,” will familiarize graduate students in a range of disciplines with the key concepts, methods, and value of this interdisciplinary field.

Andrea Duffy

Assistant Vice Provost, Associate Professor

Lynn Badia

Associate Professor

Sushmita Chatterjee

Professor