ENGL 314 - Queer Ecologies

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
In her 1994 provocation “Lavender’s Green?,” ecocritic Cate Sandilands urged readers to foster “queer environments” where “the boundaries between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ are shown to be arbitrary.” Since then, a critical framework has emerged at the intersection of queer theory and ecocriticism. In this class, we will develop a shared understanding of what it means to “queer nature” by engaging with both queerly environmental literature and ongoing theoretical conversations. Readings will include Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855), Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Jan Zita Grover’s North Enough (1997), and Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem (2017). This course is reserved for students in their second year and above.

Prerequisites: Two 200-level ENGL courses.

Sustainability