George B. Handley

George B. Handley
George Handley in 2018
26th President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Assumed office
2022
Co-leader with Gisela Heffes
Preceded byLaura Barbas-Rhoden
Bethany Wiggin
Personal details
CitizenshipAmerican
SpouseAmy Handley
Children4
Residence(s)Provo, Utah,
United States
EducationMA, PhD
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
ProfessionAcademician

George Browning Handley is a professor of humanities at Brigham Young University (BYU) who has often written on issues related to environmentalism.

Early life

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Handley was raised in Connecticut, United States.

Education

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Handley has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a masters and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

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He taught at Northern Arizona University before joining the BYU faculty in 1998. He also served as chair of BYU's department of humanities, classics and comparative literature.[1]

Works

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Handley's works have focused on the interaction of culture and the physical environment. His most cited work is Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture co-authored with Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey.[2]

Among other works by Handley are Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2010), New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2007), Stewardship and Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment[3] and Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000).

Religion

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Handley is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In the LDS Church he has served as a bishop and counselor in a stake presidency.

Personal life

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Handley and his wife Amy are the parents of four children. The family lives in Provo, Utah.

Notes

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  1. ^ Announcement of speech Handley was to give
  2. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
  3. ^ "Utah Humanities Council bio". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-06-07.

References

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