{"id":46,"date":"2016-08-28T02:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-environment-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2017-10-07T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T04:08:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/environment.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style='padding-bottom:10px; font-size:30px;' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3  blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  av-inherit-size '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >About the Literature <span class='special_amp'>&amp;<\/span> Environment Initiative<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div   class='hr hr-default   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>What does literature have to say about the environment? And how do different environments, species, and ecological crises shape the range of literatures and cultural artifacts that humans produce?<\/p>\n<p>The English Department at UC Santa Barbara is\u00a0nationally recognized for its groundbreaking work and involvement in the burgeoning fields of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities more broadly. These\u00a0interdisciplinary fields seek to understand the ways in which art, literature, language, film, and other cultural\u00a0products allow us to represent, know, and\u00a0transform the world we share with nonhumans. They also explore the ways in which the material world shapes the production of precisely these cultural products. Ecocritics pay heed to the issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, animality, and histories of colonial exploitation and geographical dispossession in which the study of culture and the environment is necessarily imbricated.<\/p>\n<p>L&amp;E faculty work on everything from contemporary to Romantic to Early Modern literature, and their\u00a0specialties include water and oceans, climate change and the Anthropocene, nature writing, globalization, risk, science and technology studies, and environmental media. Students are able and encouraged to devise papers and projects that bridge centuries, continents, disciplines, and genres and redefine what it means to study literature and the environment at the dawn\u00a0of\u00a0the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you possess a strong background in literature and the environment or a\u00a0related field, or are simply curious about this growing area of inquiry, we invite you to experience an L&amp;E-centered course, attend an event, or talk with one of our students or faculty about opportunities for getting involved! There has never been a more exciting or, indeed, more crucial time to undertake this work.<\/p>\n<p>L&amp;E also works closely with the <a href=\"http:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/\">Environmental Humanities Initiative<\/a>, also housed in the English Department, which is currently headed by Prof. Ken Hiltner.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/environment.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/environment.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}