A&S Alumni Academy: All Literature is Ecological

Join Mike Goode, Professor of English, to learn about how all literature can be read ecologically and how it has become more urgent than ever to do so. That literature sometimes comments explicitly on environmental concerns should not surprise anyone. But Professor Goode will invite you to consider how every book is also a physical object whose ecological significance shifts over time, and how every novel, poem, or play also shapes your ecological being. From the manor houses of Jane Austen to the dystopian futures of science fiction, literature always alters how we inhabit an ecologically complex planet.