intro

Welcome to our course WordPress site for our ECL 522: Literature and the Environment– MERMAIDS class. We are going to have so much fun learning about the history of environmental thinking via literature focused on one of humankind’s most ancient and enduring monsters. The hybrid, fluid, and subversive mermaid offers us many ways of learning to read into texts and to thinking broadly (and also historically) about the environment.

I have taught this class twice before (Fall 2023, Spring 2024), and it was so much fun. I look forward to this journey with all of you.

See you soon!

-Professor Pressman