Teaching the literature of climate change / edited by Debra J. Rosenthal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Options for teaching ; 64.

Options for teaching, 1079-2562 ; 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Literature.

Climatic changes--Study and teaching (Higher).

Climatic changes.

Environmental literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Environmental literature.

Ecofiction--Study and teaching (Higher).

Ecofiction.

Climatic changes in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2024.

Summary:

"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching climate change through contemporary and speculative climate fiction, nonfiction, and historical texts. Addresses postcolonialism, environmental justice, and natural disasters. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental studies and literature, as well as interdisciplinary courses involving climate science and history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Principles. Climate justice and the literary imagination / Stef Craps

Engaging students and global weirding / Andrew Hageman

Toward a critical environmental justice pedagogy / April Anson

Changing student perceptions through climate literature / Ted Martinez

Cli-fi and cultivating cultural agency / Stephen Siperstein

Climate change stories: living and dying in the anthropocene / Jo Alyson Parker

The anthropocene as a global coming-of-age story: a pedagogy in transition / Sofia Ahlberg

Apprehending climate change through fiction and film / Matt Burkhart

Part II. Locations. Sea-level rise, low-lying islands, and Caribbean literature / Christina Gerhardt

Decolonizing climate knowledge: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's poetry / Clare Echterling

Sounding the alarm in Caribbean literature: Mayra Montero's In the palm of darkness / Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilin

The polymedial asthetics of climate change drama / Nassim W. Balesrtini

Climate change narratives, publics, and the professional-managerial class / Parker Krieg

Words in the world: the work of an environmental literature course in a coastal Florida city / Thomas Hallock

Part III. Tests. Attention, connection, dialogue: teaching Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior in the climate fiction classroom / Magdalena Maczynska

Contemporary US climate fiction / Teresa A. Goddu

Margaret Atwood's Orynx and Crake and The Year of the Flood as cli-fi / Robert P. Marzec

Cli-nofi: reading and writing creative nonfiction in a prison classroom / Jason de Lara Molesky

Genres of deep time: Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Orbis hypothesis / Aaron Rosenberg

Part IV. Courses and interdisciplinarity. It's the end of the world as we know it: utilizing interdisciplinarity to teach anthropocene literature / Hannah Kroonblawd

"It will take years for the picture to emerge": interdisciplinarity, intermedia strategies, and climate narratives / Patrick Whitmarsh

Reading the weather: teaching the literature of climate change at a Polytechnic university / Cynthia Schoolar Williams

Imagining just futures: teaching the literature of climate change as a social responsibility / Ali Brox

Cli-fi linked to a climate science course / Debra J. Rosenthal and Jeffrey Johansen

Climate fiction and the global South / Ben Jamieson Stanley and Emily S. Davis

Part V. Assignments. Tuning in to climate change: podcasts in the classroom / Orchid Tierney

The literature of climate change and information literacy instruction / Melissa Anderson

Noticing, time, and angling: a climate change syllabus / Barbara Leckie

Possible futures in a warming world: teaching climate models and other climate fictions / Tobias Menely

Part VI. Hopefulness and beyond. Finding hope in climate literature: solastalgia, twilight knowing, and unintended consequences / Kathryn Prince

Ruin, rebellion, remaking: environmental justice in the literature of climate change / Brianna R. Burke

Now what? Moving past climate change anxiety in an interdisciplinary community college classroom / Ria Banerjee

Creative responses to climate doom: lessons from the void / Rick Van Noy

Stories from our future: beyond the binary of climate hope and grief / Jennifer Atkinson

Afterword: the urgency of slow teaching / Sarah Jaquette Ray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Teaching the literature of climate change

ISBN:

9781603296342

1603296344

9781603296359

1603296352

OCLC:

1391435263