Teaching the Literature of Climate Change

Introduction, by Debra J. Rosenthal Part I: Principles Climate Justice and the Literary Imagination, by Stef Craps Engaging Students and Global Weirding, by Andrew Hageman Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Pedagogy, by April Anson Changing Student Perceptions through Climate Literature, by Ted Martinez Cli-Fi and Cultivating Cultural Agency, by Stephen Siperstein Climate Change Stories: Living and Dying in the Anthropocene, by Jo Alyson Parker The Anthropocene as a Global Coming-of-Age Story: A Pedagogy in Transition, by Sofia Ahlberg Apprehending Climate Change through Fiction and Film, by Matt Burkhart Part II: Locations Sea-Level Rise, Low-Lying Islands, and Caribbean Lit er a ture, by Christina Gerhardt Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Kathy Jetn?il-Kijiner's Poetry, by Clare Echterling Sounding the Alarm of Climate Change in Caribbean Literature: Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness, by Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilin The Polymedial Aesthetics of Climate Change Drama, by Nassim W. Balestrini Climate Change Narratives, Publics, and the Professional-Managerial Class, by Parker Krieg Words in the World: The Work of an Environmental Literature Course in a Coastal Florida City, by Thomas Hallock Part III: Texts Attention, Connection, Dialogue: Teaching Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior in the Climate Fiction Classroom, by Magdalena Maczynska Contemporary US Climate Fiction, by Teresa A. Goddu Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood as Cli-Fi, by Robert P. Marzec Cli-Nofi: Reading and Writing Creative Climate Nonfiction in a Prison Classroom, by Jason de Lara Molesky Genres of Deep Time: Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Orbis Hypothesis, by Aaron Rosenberg Part IV: Courses and Interdisciplinarity It's the End of the World As We Know It: Utilizing Interdisciplinarity to Teach Anthropocene Literature, by Hannah Kroonblawd "It Will Take Years for the Picture to Emerge": Interdisciplinarity, Intermedia Strategies, and Climate Narratives, by Patrick Whitmarsh Reading the Weather: Teaching the Literature of Climate Change at a Polytechnic University, by Cynthia Schoolar Williams Imagining Just Futures: Teaching the Literature of Climate Change as Social Responsibility, by Ali Brox Cli-Fi Linked to a Climate Science Course, by Debra J. Rosenthal and Jeffrey Johansen Climate Fiction and the Global South, by Ben Jamieson Stanley and Emily S. Davis Part V: Assignments Tuning In to Climate Change: Podcasts in the Classroom, by Orchid Tierney The Literature of Climate Change and Information Literacy Instruction, by Melissa Anderson Noticing, Time, and Angling: A Climate Change Syllabus, by Barbara Leckie Possible Futures in a Warming World: Teaching Climate Models and Other Climate Fictions, by Tobias Menely Part VI: Hopefulness and Beyond Finding Hope in Climate Literature: Solastalgia, Twilight Knowing, and Unintended Consequences, by Kathryn Prince Ruin, Rebellion, Remaking: Environmental Justice in the Literature of Climate Change, by Brianna R. Burke Now What? Moving Past Climate Change Anxiety in an Interdisciplinary Community College Classroom, by Ria Banerjee Creative Responses to Climate Doom: Lessons from the Void, by Rick Van Noy Stories from Our Future: Beyond the Binary of Climate Hope and Grief, by Jennifer Atkinson Afterword: The Urgency of Slow Teaching, by Sarah Jaquette Ray Notes on Contributors

"[Helps] students make connections between the Anthropocene and histories of colonization, racism, exploitation, and extraction." --Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment "[A]n indispensable sourcebook for instructors and a valuable companion for anyone seeking to comprehend the climate emergency.... It is an excellent reference for instructors who want to engage their students with climate literature and the climate change debate in general." --Ecozone