Hello My name is Shane Hall. I am a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Science, Studies, and Policy Program. Broadly, I study how environmental issues are depicted in American literature and popular culture. More specifically, I am interested with the intersections of three critical, growing trends: climate change, global inequality, and militarism. I’ve taught six different courses for the environmental studies program, and I also teach in the UO Composition Program (WR 121 and WR 122). For the last two years I’ve been the “Graduate Student Teacher Scholar” for UO’s Teaching Effectiveness Program.

I assist UO GTFs and faculty develop courses and better teaching practices.

Summer is my favorite season, because it let’s me do lots of hiking, camping, floating,  fishing, and reading. Sure, I get to do all these things during the rest of the year, but in the summer I get to do them without a raincoat.

Courses I Teach:

ENVS 435: Environmental Justice

ENVS 411: Imagining Environmental Futures

ENVS 411: Cultures of Coal: Carbon, Capitalism, and Consequences (coming soon in Spring 2017)

ENVS 201: Intro to environmental studies, social sciences

ENVS 202: Intro to environmental studies, natural sciences

ENVS 203: Intro to environmental studies, humanities

WR 121: College Composition I

WR 122: College Composition II