Contact Information

Office: 3032 JFSB

Phone: 422-7151

E-mail: George_Handley@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
Humanities 202: Arts in Western Culture
Humanities 250: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Humanities
Humanities 260: Latin American Humanities
Humanities 262: American Humanities
Humanities 350: Interpretation of Literature and the Arts
Humanities 425R: Nature and the Modern Novel in the Americas
Humanities 425R: Postslavery Cultures in the Americas
Humanities 490R: Environmental Humanities
Comparative Studies 610: Introduction to Comparative Studies

Link to Vitae

After teaching for three years at Northern Arizona University, George Handley came to BYU in 1998. His training is in Comparative Literature, focusing on the literatures of the Americas. His publications include two books on inter-american themes: "Postslavery Literatures in the Americas" (Virginia 2000), which is a study of the representation of slavery and family history in novels from the U.S. and the Caribbean, and "New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda and Walcott" (Georgia, 2007), which is an environmental critique of the imagination of nature in inter-american poetry. He has also co-edited "Caribbean Literature and the Environment" (Virginia), "Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment" (BYU), and a forthcoming volume, Postcolonial Ecologies" (Oxford). He is currently finishing a book called Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses in the Mormon West (U of U Press) that includes nature writing, personal and environmental history, and reflections on ecotheology.

He has directed a Study Abroad to London and directed a program in the Caribbean in the summer of 2009. He is the advisor to the student club, EcoResponse, and is active in many civic activities. He and his wife, Amy, have four children and live here in Provo.

Degrees

PhD, Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
MA, Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1991
BA, Comparative Literature, Stanford University,1989

Interests

Literatures of the Americas
Ecocriticism and Ecotheology

Links

• Utah Humanities Council Public Square
• Mormon Scholars in the Humanities
• LDS Earth Stewardship