Introduction to the Environmental Humanities

J. Andrew Hubbell is Associate Professor of English at Susquehanna University, USA, and Adjunct Researcher at the University of Western Australia. His interests include nineteenth-century British literature, literary theory, climate narratives, empirical humanities, and new social movements. He is the author of Byron’s Nature: A Romantic Vision of Cultural Ecology and The Story of Transition in Western Australia: How Local Communities are Pioneering Sustainable Society. John C. Ryan is Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University, Australia, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia. His interests include contemporary poetry, Indigenous Australian and Southeast Asian literature, ecomedia studies, and critical plant studies. He is the author of Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination (Routledge 2018) and co-editor of Australian Wetland Cultures: Swamps and the Environmental Crisis.

1 Introduction to the Environmental Humanities: History and Theory 2 Climate Change: The Great Disrupter 3 The Anthropocene: A Superhero Species Comes of Age 4 Indigenous Cultures and Nature: Past, Present, and Future 5 Environmental Anthropology, Cultural Geography, and the Geo-Humanities: Space and Place 6Environmental History: The Story of Co-Evolution 7 Environmental Philosophy: Thinking about Nature 8 Ecological Religious Studies: Faith in Nature 9 Environmental Art: Creativity, Activism, and Sustainability 10 Ecological Literary Studies: Imagining Nature 11 Environmental Theater: Performing Nature 12 Environmental Film: Projecting Nature 13 Environmental Journalism: Mediating Ecological Issues 14 Conclusion: Back to the Future Environmental Humanities