Cli-fi genre coming to Boston College in Spring Semester 2020, thanks to Professor Song there teaching ENGL 402

Cli-fi genre coming to Boston College in Spring Semester 2020, thanks to Professor Song there. Go cli-fi in academia !!!
TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS 3 pm

Min Hyoung Song

@minhyoungsong

Check out the flyer for my Cli-Fi [Climate Fiction] course Spring Semester 2020 at Boston

College where I teach! This is really going to happen.

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Professor Min Hyoung Song,

BOSTON COLLEGE

, MASSACHUSETTS

@minhyoungsong

English professor

@BostonCollege

Race / Ecology / Aesthetics. Current project: Everyday Denial and Climate Lyricism

DR SONG TWEETED IN NOVEMBER: ''

Wow: I'm planning to teach Ghosh's ''Gun Island'' in my Climate Fiction course in the spring 2020, and it turns out that Dr Ghosh is coming to the Boston College campus on February 12 to speak .....AND..... the school museum is mounting an exhibit centered on the Indian Ocean. ''

''It's like the syllabus is writing itself!'' Dr Song added.

TWITTER SAYS: "After reading Amitav Ghosh's cli-fi novel ''Gun Island'' and

@pitchaya

's cli-fi novel ''Bangkok Wakes To Rain''.... I am now very intrigued by climate fiction. Would you mind sharing some of the books you're planning to assign your students, Dr Song? Thank you.

DR SONG REPLIES: ''

Bangkok Wakes to Rain has been on my to-read list! Other books in the course include Kim Stanley Robinson ''New York 2140,'' Cherie Dimaline’s ''Marrow Thieves'', and Jesmyn Ward’s ''Salvage the Bones.''

boston, mass.minhyoungsong.com

''I should also add the course draws directly from my book manuscript. Just trying to put those ideas into practice and see what happens.''

Amitav Ghosh will be at Boston College during Spring Semester 2020: A lecture on "Embattled Earth: Commodities, Conflict and Climate Change in the Indian Ocean''

Amitav Ghosh's most recent publications include The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) and his first cli-fi novel, Gun Island (2019) which is in many ways an answer to some of the questions he posed in his nonfiction essays in "The Great Derangement."

http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/american-taiwan-korean-tour-group/

Presented by the Lowell Humanities Series and cosponsored by the Asian Studies Program, the History Department, and the English Department, and with the support of an Institute for the Liberal Arts Major Grant Award.

February 12, 2020 

7 pm to 9 pm

 Gasson Hall, Room 100
Gasson Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467