HUM 596 B Humanities Research Seminar

This seminar surveys prospects for public scholarship in the environmental humanities. It is designed to accommodate those just beginning to explore alternative designs to conventional research projects as well as those with established ones underway. Organized around questions of exposure and oriented toward environmental justice, course readings and activities explore different forms of vulnerability in a time of planetary crisis as well as public practices of repair, including publishing, collecting, conserving, curating, performing, and organizing.
Due to the current pandemic, much of the seminar’s coursework will take a speculative form, drawing on the speculative practices and genres, from cli-fi to Afrofuturism, that have been developed by writers, scholars, artists, designers, and activists in order to envision livable futures beyond current impasses.
Offered via remote learning.