Photo of a bench with a book on it in front of some floral bushes. Black text with white background reads “Can literature save the planet?”. There is a photo of a smiling woman holding a book with text next to it reading “Adeline Johns-Putra, Professor of English at Queen’s University, Canada”. Below the image, text reads “Friday, October 17, 2025 | 9:00 - 9:50am | Humanities Instructional Building 100”. In the bottom left corner is a logo - black text reading “UC Irvine Humanities Core”
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"Can Literature Save the Planet?"

Talk & Q&A with Adeline Johns-Putra

 

Hosted by UCI Humanities Core

 

About the Speaker

Adeline Johns-Putra is Professor of English Literature at Queen's University, Ontario. She was President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (UK and Ireland) from 2011 to 2015. Her publications include the books Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel (2019), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (2022), Climate and Literature (2019), and Cli-Fi: A Companion (2018), as well as essays on climate and literature in Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in the Novel, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

 

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