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Welcome!<\/p>\n

I am a professor of the environmental humanities at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), where I am the faculty Co-chair of the Chancellor\u2019s Sustainability Committee, Chair of UCSB\u2019s Sustainable Transportation Committee, and Director of the T. A. Barron Environmental Leadership Program. I was also the founding Director of both UCSB\u2019s Literature and the Environment Center and the Environmental Humanities Initiative. Prior to becoming a professor, for two decades I made my living as a furniture maker.<\/p>\n

The primary purpose of this website is to house a variety of materials supporting my courses, which focus on literature, thought, and culture from an environmental perspective. All deal with the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

In addition to UCSB, I’ve taught at Harvard, where I received my Ph.D., and at Princeton, where\u00a0he served for a year as the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities at Princeton University\u2019s Environmental Institute (PEI).<\/p>\n

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My Courses<\/p>\n

Every year, I teach a sequence of three large lectures: Eng 22 in the Fall, Eng 23 in the Winter, and Eng 24 in the Spring. As each of these courses has an enrollment of 860-student lectures, I teach over 2500 students per year. Here are course descriptions for all three:<\/p>\n

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The Climate Crisis, Part II: Local and Global Perspectives<\/a><\/p>\n

(English 24, a.k.a. Climate Crisis 101, Part II)<\/p>\n

Eng 24 introduces students to a variety of perspectives on the climate crisis. In order to do so, each year more than twenty scholars and activists speak to the class about their work on the crisis. Hence, Eng 24 is an unusual class. Unlike a conventional lecture, where a single instructor speaks to the class, students in Eng 24 learn from a range of exceptionally knowledgeable individuals. Eng 24 also has a significant personal component. Indeed, if you really want to jump in and do something about the climate crisis but are not quite sure where to start, Eng 24 is designed to not only offer the examples of people who are making a difference in a variety of interesting ways, but also introduce local initiatives, such as the Eco Vista project. Eng 24 also introduces a variety of UCSB professors and the courses that they teach addressing the climate crisis, as well as a range of UCSB environmental programs.<\/p>\n Here are a few of our recent speakers<\/u>\" > Here are a few of our recent speakers<\/u><\/span>

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