Nuclear and Environmental
Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War (1960).
Raymond Zhnog, “For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age.”
Nicholas Kristof, “Cheer Up! The World Is Better Off Than You Think.”
Rebecca Solnit, “What If Climate Change Meant Not Doom–But Abundance?”
Elizabeth Kolbert, “It’s Earth Day—and the News Isn’t Good.”
David Wallace-Wells, “Greta Thunberg: ‘The World Is Getting More Grim by the Day.'”
Mark O’Connell, “Our Way of Life Is Poisoning Us.”
Simon Schama, “Simon Schama on the Broken Relationship between Humans and Nature: ‘The Joke’s on Us. Things Are Amiss.'”
Continue reading
Because I am the 2022–25 Cora A. Babcock Chair in English, I have a course release each spring for the next three years. As such, I’ll only be teaching one class this semester, but I’m super excited about it: 
This coming fall semester looks like it will be as close to “normal” as it’s been in some time. I’m teaching some familiar creative writing classes that I usually teach in the fall (syllabi below), and filling in for the first half of the semester in our ENGL 101 Writing Tutorial class (syllabus not included). I will again also be teaching our methods course for senior theses in creative writing (ENGL 489).
This spring semester at Hartwick College, I’m teaching two classes, ENGL 213 Introduction to Creative Writing, as usual, and a brand new course, ENGL 352 Critical Game Studies. I’m especially excited about the latter, as this was a course I developed at the University of Pittsburgh in AY 2015-16 with the aid of a course development grant but that I have not had a chance to teach until now.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 