ESS208

Using an environmental lens, introduces students to a range of literary works with a visual component—including graphic novels, short stories, memoir, biography, adaptation, and comics. Students will have the opportunity to learn strategies for visual and textual analysis, consider quandaries of representation posed by hybrid storytelling and “sequential art,” and grapple with graphic narrative. Explores questions such as: How have writer-artists imagined our environments and the human relationship to nature? How have these works responded to challenges like climate change and environmental injustice? How do race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship shape our physical and social realities as well as our understanding of texts?