ENGL6830: Theory Topics (65128)

Allen, Nicholas

T 9:35 AM

Park Hall 67

Readings in Recent Environmental Literature and Criticism   Description    This course will explore concepts of the anthropocene, climate breakdown and the non-human in a series of recent literary texts and criticism, with a part focus on intersections between the environmental and the blue humanities.   Authors will include Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emily St John Mandel, Barry Lopez, Renee Gladman, Amitav Ghosh, Jeff Vandermeer, David Haskell, Rick Van Noy, and Rose McLarney. I will send an invitation to registered students before class begins to ask for further or alternate suggestions of authors you might like to read. I will also provide registered students with copies of the majority, if not all, of the books, depending on budget. I’ll share that information in due course.       Meeting   My email is the easiest way to reach me outside class, na@uga.edu. I’m happy to answer any questions you may have about class beforehand.     You are welcome to schedule a meeting in person through Calli Mccormack,  callimmccormack@uga.edu.  My office is in the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, 1260 Sth Lumpkin Street.    Assessment    We will discuss the different options available to you when we meet. Part of a chapter towards your dissertation, an essay or a creative project will meet the course requirements, as will a place-based study, the parameters of which we can discuss when we meet.   Critical Sources This is not a bibliography, but a suggestion of some of the critical works we will refer to. https://www.dukeupress.edu/allegories-of-the-anthropocene https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo85903056.html https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/we-are-the-ocean-selected-works/ https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823286775/the-disposition-of-nature/ https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-wake https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205267/extraction-ecologies-and-the-literature-of-the-long-exhaustion https://www.dukeupress.edu/borderwaters https://www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is-colonialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/wild-blue-media https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780898234107/listen-we-all-bleed.aspx