Ecological Imagination in Literary and Visual Narratives. An Online Zoom Course
The University of Hong Kong, Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies

This course will examine significant ideas, debates, and questions of ecocriticism, environmental studies, animal studies, and posthumanism through selected contemporary literary and visual narratives.  We will explore, together, how to critique the frameworks that have set “nature” and “culture” at odds with one another, as well as consider how we might generate new forms of creative action in response to our local and global ecological conditions that entwine the local and the global.

Students will make use a range of interdisciplinary methods from literature, performance, and visual arts to engage with ecocritical concepts, such as deep ecology, ecofeminism, queer ecocriticism, disability ecocriticism, and green activism to help us deepen our understanding and map new ways forward in both our everyday and professional contexts.