Office of the Dean of Teaching and Learning

Date: Friday 8th March 2024

Time: 11am to 2pm, with lunch provided

Venue: Library room C&D

The Dean of Teaching and Learning Seminar Series is delighted to host this masterclass in conjunction with Dr Stephen O’Neill and Dr Rita Sakr, Department of English. The talk and workshop, led by Prof Graham Huggan, are aimed at supporting and developing good practice and innovative methods in teaching and learning in the broad area of the Environmental Humanities. The masterclass coincides with Social Justice Week and Green Week, and it is open to colleagues and postgraduate students (taught and research) across MU. Providing a forum for reflections on teaching and learning practices and strategies in the areas of the environmental humanities, postcolonialism/decoloniality, climate studies and environmental justice. The main objectives of this masterclass are:
 

1. Envisioning intra- and cross-Faculty collaborations in this area to potentially develop teaching and learning frameworks for the future directions of MU’s cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research focus on environmental studies, especially but not exclusively in the context of the humanities.
2. Exploring possible degree pathways in the environmental humanities building on established offerings across departments.

Please register on Eventbrite

Professor Graham Huggan (School of English at the University of Leeds) is a leading scholar across three fields: postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, and tourism studies, all of which come together in his monograph, Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet (Bloomsbury, 2018). His latest book is the co-authored Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020: Land Lines (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and current pursuits include running a doctoral programme in Extinction Studies and co-leading an international research project on European national parks. Professor Graham’s publications include Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age (Routledge, 2013); the Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies (Oxford University Press, 2013); the co-authored Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (Routledge, 2010; second edition 2015); Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism (Oxford University Press, 2007); Extreme Pursuits: Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization (University of Michigan Press, 2009); the volume of essays Interdisciplinary Measures (Liverpool University Press, 2009); and the monograph The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins (Routledge, 2001).
 
Please contact Dr Stephen O’Neill (stephen.oneill@mu.ie) or Dr Rita Sakr (rita.sakr@mu.ie) for further details and to receive reading material for the workshop after you have registered.