By Andrea Most and Jennifer Qian Li

Andrea: During the spring and summer of 2019, I’ve turned over my Medium column to students from my third-year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, “The Environmental Imagination.” As I described in my introductory post on how and why I think we need to teach environmental studies to English majors, “Who Do We Think We Are? Fighting Climate Change by Changing Our Minds.”), to truly change our attitudes in relation to the earth, I believe we need new stories. But we also need to live within those stories. …

By Guest Blogger Nermeen Zia Islam

Note from Andrea: During the spring and summer of 2019, I’ve turned over my Medium column to students from my third-year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, “The Environmental Imagination.” (For background on how and why I think we need to teach environmental studies to English majors see “Who Do We Think We Are? Fighting Climate Change by Changing Our Minds.”). In one of the most provocative units for students, we focus on the different ways we tell time and on the relationship between nature time, body time, culture time, and industrial time. …

By Guest Blogger Veronica Hodgson

Note from Andrea: During the spring and summer of 2019, I’ve turned over my Medium column to students from my third-year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, “The Environmental Imagination.” (For background on how and why I think we need to teach environmental studies to English majors see “Who Do We Think We Are? Fighting Climate Change by Changing Our Minds.”). One class focussed on seasons and seasonality in our diets, and Veronica really took the message to heart. …

By Guest Blogger Grace King

Note from Andrea: During the spring and summer of 2019, I’ve turned over my Medium column to students from my third-year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, “The Environmental Imagination.” (For background on how and why I think we need to teach environmental studies to English majors see “Who Do We Think We Are? Fighting Climate Change by Changing Our Minds.”). In one of the most provocative units for students, we focus on the different ways we tell time. We look at nature time, body time, culture time, industrial time and compare them. …

By Guest Blogger Cheryl Lewis

Note from Andrea: During the spring and summer of 2019, I’ve turned over my Medium column to students from my third-year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, “The Environmental Imagination.” (For background on how and why I think we need to teach environmental studies to English majors see “Who Do We Think We Are? Fighting Climate Change by Changing Our Minds.”) In the class, we spend a lot of time talking about what, if anything, distinguishes us — humans — from the rest of the natural world. …

By Guest Blogger Erika Dickinson

Note from Andrea: During the spring and summer of 2019, I’ve turned over my Medium column to students from my third-year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, “The Environmental Imagination.” (For background on how and why I think we need to teach environmental studies to English majors see “Who Do We Think We Are? Fighting Climate Change by Changing Our Minds.”) In the class, we spend a lot of time talking about what, if anything, distinguishes us — humans — from the rest of the natural world. In addition to exploring our relations with animals, plants and water, we also look at the worlds of microbes that live within and on us. …

By Guest Blogger Bailey Storey

Note from Andrea: During the spring and summer of 2019, I’ve turned over my Medium column to students from my third-year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, “The Environmental Imagination.” In the class, we spend a lot of time talking about what, if anything, distinguishes us — humans — from the rest of the natural world. Are we special? And how does this insistence on specialness deafen us to the language of so many others in the non-human world? …

By Guest Blogger Fiona Lam

Note from Andrea: During the spring and summer of 2019, I’ve turned over my Medium column to students from my third-year undergraduate course at the University of Toronto, “The Environmental Imagination.” (For background on how and why I think we need to teach environmental studies to English majors see “Who Do We Think We Are? Fighting Climate Change by Changing Our Minds.”) In a unit titled “Where is Nature?” we think about the different ways we describe nature “out there” in Western culture: pastoral paradise, frontier, wilderness. And we try to imagine what it might mean to simply be at home in a place, to be nature. …