This course explores environmental writing and literature as a body of critical and creative work that both responds to and intervenes in historical and contemporary environmental discourse and politics. Focusing on practices of interpretation and close reading in addition to creativity and imagination, the course considers a range of literary genres (poetry, novels, short stories, plays) as they build, represent, problematize, and challenge environmental cultures. Prerequisite: EU/ENVS 2327 or permission of the course director.