Since reading Bryan Alexander’s book Universities on Fire, I’ve been immersing myself in every climate crisis novel I can lay my hands on. After reading all this fiction, I’ve been dreaming of turning my growing collection of climate crisis novels into a course.
This course would combine my passion for thinking about the future of the university with my growing obsession over climate change. The course would be called Climate Fiction and the University. We would read climate crisis novels through the lens of the future of the higher education.
Reading the IHE story “Helene’s Aftermath: Classes Canceled, Students Relocated” this morning, this seems like a good time to design a fiction-reading based course on the university and climate change.
Below is a list of the climate fiction books that I’ve read since reading Universities on Fire. There are likely too many novels to read in a single semester, so I’d have to make some choices about what to keep. (Any ideas?)
Any climate change novels that are not on this list that should be considered for the syllabus?
Are there any campus novels that put the climate crisis at the center of the story?
What are you reading?
