George B. Handley
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George B. Handley | |
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![]() 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 by | Laura Barbas-Rhoden Bethany Wiggin |
Personal details | |
Citizenship | American |
Spouse | Amy Handley |
Children | 4 |
Residence(s) | Provo, Utah, United States |
Education | MA, PhD |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Profession | Academician |
George Browning Handley is a professor of humanities at Brigham Young University (BYU) who has often written on issues related to environmentalism.
Early life
[edit]Handley was raised in Connecticut, United States.
Education
[edit]Handley has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a masters and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Handley and his wife Amy are the parents of four children. The family lives in Provo, Utah.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Announcement of speech Handley was to give
- ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
- ^ "Utah Humanities Council bio". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-06-07.