{"id":8373,"date":"2015-04-07T12:51:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T19:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=8373"},"modified":"2016-01-03T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:18:16","slug":"8373-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?page_id=8373","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div  style='height:40px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ph.D. Candidates\u00a0Reflect on the Environmental Humanities<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_third  column-top-margin\" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/124070334?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=5A7D5A\" width=\"672\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  column-top-margin\" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Corrie Ellis, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I am most interested in is the interconnection between the environment\u00a0and society&#8230;the humanities have an important role to play [here] in terms of creating [a] culture change and communicating to people about environmental degradation and imagining a better future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I see myself as a scholar activist, being that I am engaged in activism with the people who I&#8217;m researching. I&#8217;d like to make a difference through my community and doing research that is actually useful for these movements that are resisting corporations that are contributing to climate change.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  column-top-margin\" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/132879456?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=5A7D5A\" width=\"672\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  column-top-margin\" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Jeremy Chow, Ph.D. Candidate, English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I first arrived here at UCSB\u00a0the environment wasn&#8217;t one of my primary focuses, [but I soon] realized that UCSB has a strong contingent of faculty members that focus on [it].&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;My particular focus is on water&#8230;I look at the ways in which environmental and specifically aqueous discussion surround discussions also of futurity&#8230;[Through 18th maritime fiction] I\u00a0\u00a0want to look at the characterization of water and the environment as it provides both life, but\u00a0as it also can foreclose that sense of futurity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  column-top-margin\" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/132769679?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=5A7D5A\" width=\"672\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  column-top-margin\" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Baron Haber, Ph.D. Candidate, English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout my early childhood and into my college years, outdoor activities like hiking and backing, these were major parts of what I did for fun and also how I formed my identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;As I&#8217;ve studied it more, I&#8217;ve come to see that nature has been used as a tool to discipline people and to enforce ideas of race and gender. I want to start unpacking [these ideas]&#8230;I\u00a0want to understand can we appreciate nature without necessarily having to look at it in racist or sexist or other normative terms.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  column-top-margin\" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/145083408?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=5A7D5A\" width=\"672\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  column-top-margin\" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Tom Doran, Ph.D. Candidate, English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started writing about animal representation and issues of animal representation not really knowing that there were pretty fully formed fields like Ecocriticism or Animal studies, and when I learned about [these]\u00a0more I decided to start a PhD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I taught a course last year on cultural representations of animal rights and environmental justice&#8230;for Environmental Studies and English students [where they] created group project proposals for addressing some kind of environmental issue. 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