Description:

The Environmental Humanities Research Workshop of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities presents:

Ursula Heise
The Silent Music of Extinction

Ursula K. Heise teaches in the Department of English and at the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability at UCLA. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and served as president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) in 2011. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary literature; environmental culture in the Americas, Western Europe and Japan; literature and science; globalization theory; and media theory.

Professor Heise is the author of a number of books; her newest, Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species, is due out in August 2016 from the University of Chicago Press.

This event is made possible by generous support from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities; the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures, History, and English; the Programs in Asian Studies and Environmental Policy and Culture; and the Asian Studies Graduate Cluster.