Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities

Stephen Siperstein has a PhD from the University of Oregon and teaches English and Environmental Humanities at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, USA.Shane Hall is a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Studies Program and Department of English at the University of Oregon, USA.Stephanie LeMenager is Moore Professor of English at the University of Oregon, USA. She is widely involved in outreach projects and regularly engages with the press.

• Introduction, Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall, Stephanie LeMenagerPart 1: Who We Are1. Making Climate Change Our Job, SueEllen Campbell2. Climate Disruption Involves All Disciplines: Who Becomes a Mentor? James Engell3. When the Newt Shut Off the Lights: Scale, Practice, Politics, Stacy Alaimo4. Known and Not Knowing Climate Change: Pedagogy for a New Dispensation, Matthew Kearnes5. Energy, Climate and the Classroom: A Letter, Imre Szeman6. Will the End of the World Be on the Final Exam? Bob Wilson7. Teaching Climate Crisis in the Neoliberal University: On the Poverty of the Environmental Humanities, Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Graeme Macdonald, Nicholas Lawrence, and Jonathan Skinner8. Climate Change, Public Engagement and Integrated Environmental Humanities, Steven HartmanPart 2: Teaching and Learning Climate Change Head On9. Thinking Climate Change Like a Planet: Notes From an Environmental Philosopher, J. Baird Callicott10. Teaching About Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: Decolonizing Research and Broadening Knowledge, Mark Carey, Kathy Lynn, Kevin Hatfield, and Jennifer O’Neal11. Teaching Teleconnection, Gillen D’Arcy Wood12. Building Paradise in the Classroom, Janet Fiskio13. Learning in the Anthropocene: Environmental Justice and Climate Pedagogy, Robert Figueroa14. In-Flight Behaviour: Teaching Climate Change Literature in First Year Intro English, Greg Garrard15. Learning from the past – teaching past climate change and catastrophes as windows onto vulnerability and resilience, Felix Riede, Annette Højen Sørensen, Jan Dietrich, Mogens S. Høgsberg, Mathias V. Nordvig, and Esben B. Niels16. Climate Visualizations as Cultural Objects, Heather Houser17. Engaging the ‘Eaarth’: Teaching and Making Climate Change Cultures in an Art and Design, Nicole Merola18. Signs, Images, and Narratives: Climate Change Across Languages and Cultures, Uwe KüchlerPart 3: Teaching and Learning Climate Change Sideways 19. The Elephant in the Room: Acknowledging Global Climate Change in Courses Not Focused on Climate, Scott Slovic20. Teaching Climate Change Otherwise, Swayam Bagaria and Naveeda Kahn21. Teaching Ecological Restoration in the Climate Change Century, Cheryll Glotfelty22. Exploratory Concepts, Case Studies, and Keywords for Teaching Environmental Justice and Climate Change in a lower-level Humanities classroom, Julie Sze23. Garbage and Literature: Generating Narrative from a Culture of Waste, Stephanie Foote24. Teaching literature as climate changes: ecological presence, a globalized world, and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water, Anthony Vital25. Looking Back to Look Ahead: Climate Change and US Literary History, William Gleason26. Atlas’ Shifting Shoulders: Teaching Climate Change and Classics, Darragh Martin27. Stealing the Apocalypse: Myths of Resistance in Contemporary Popular Culture, Anthony Lioi28. Teaching Climate Change and Film, Stephen RustPart 4: Archives and Contexts for Teaching and Learning Climate Change29. The Persuasive Force of the Right Supplementary Materials for Climate Change Humanities Courses, Patrick D. Murphy30. Vanishing Sounds: Thoreau and the Sixth Extinction, Wai Chee Dimock31. Teaching climate change at end of nature: Post-colonial Australia, Indigenous realism, and Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book, Emily Potter32. When Sea Levels Rise: Writing/Righting Climate Change in Pacific Islanders' Literature, Hsinya Huang33. Climate Change and Changing World Literature, Karen Thornber34. Untangling Intentions: Teaching History of Climate Politics, Peder AnkerAfterword, Bill McKibben