EH Blog

Professor Danielle Endres will officially be the new director of the Environmental Humanities Program! After many years as director, Jeffrey McCarthy is retiring from the position and his term will end in June. We are grateful for Jeff's years of commitment to the Program, and we look forward to a new chapter with Danielle as our next leader. Danielle has been an affiliated faculty member with our program since its beginning, so she brings both fresh eyes and a deep understanding of our history and evolution.

Taylor Brorby is the current Annie Clark Annie Clark Tanner Teaching & Research Fellow in Environmental Humanities. He is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing up gay in a fractured land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America.

Celebrate Pride Week by joining Taylor Brorby, Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities for a reading and discussion of his memoir, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, on March 29 at 4p in the Jewel Box (CTIHB 145). Refreshments provided.

Chris Ingraham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and on the core faculty of the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. His work as an active teacher and researcher is in the areas of media aesthetics, environmental communication, and rhetorical theory. Generally, he tries to draw on the insights of these fields to think about the material, aesthetic, and affective practices that configure the environments we create and inhabit. Before becoming an academic, he worked for several years as a freelance writer. Though the arts remain central to his interests, his academic training across the humanities commits him to cross-disciplinary thinking with the belief that we should bring all available knowledge to the problems we're trying to understand.

Environmental Humanities has opened the application round for the next Research Professor for the 23/24 term. Rachel Mason Dentinger, the current EH Research Professor, will give a talk on 11/22 at 4p.