We are pleased to share our collection of teaching interviews to inform educators and researchers about approaches to teaching racialized ecologies across diverse courses.
Course: "Studying Culture: A Critical Introduction"
Department: English and Cultural Studies
Dr. Susie O'Brien: "A key concern is how we think about nature and culture, recognizing that we inhabit a physical world alongside other humans and non-humans, and that our cultural ways of understanding and struggling over how to live in that world are always political." Read the full interview.
Course: “Environmental Justice and Gender” Department: Gender and Women’s Studies Dr. Anita Girvan: “[T]he course centres complexity and complicity, asking how we are complicit in these systems and how we might still practice hope. . . . Cynicism and apathy, we can’t do that, because it’s like throwing your hands up and saying the state of the world is okay as it is.” Read the full interview.
Course: “Seed Stories of Indigenous and Black Survivance”. Department: English and Cultural Studies Dr. Renae Watchman: “This course synthesizes seed stories of survivance by Indigenous and Black women writers, whose novels interweave homelands, histories, and temporalities, and embrace futurities of normalized Indigenous and Black presence.” Read the full interview.