Introduction to the environmental humanities video: http://vimeo.com/38246572
Required readings:
Kaza, Why Environmental Humanities?
Buell, Glossary of Selected Terms
McKibben, What the Warming World Needs Now
Excerpts from Genesis, read 1.1-3.24
Crevecoeur, “Letters from an American Farmer”
Rowlandson, a narrative of captivity
Steingraber, The Fracking of Rachel Carson
Oregon Quarterly, “Watershed Moment”
Additional readings:
Glotfelty, Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis
Heise, Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ecocriticism