Contact Information

Office: 3032 JFSB

Phone: 422-7151

E-mail: George_Handley@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
Humanities 202: Arts in Western Culture
Humanities 260: Latin American Humanities
Humanities 262: American Humanities
Humanities 350: Interpretation of Literature and the Arts
Humanities 420R: Poetry of the Americas
Humanities 420R: Slavery in the Am

Website: http://hccl.byu.edu/faculty/handley/index.shtml

I started teaching at BYU in 1998 after three years at Northern Arizona University. I received my MA and PhD from UC Berkeley in 1991 and 1995 respectively and received my BA from Stanford University in 1989. I am a comparatist by training, focusing on the literatures of the Americas , and have published two books on inter-american themes. The first, Postslavery Literatures in the Americas, is a study of the representation of slavery and family history in novels from the U.S. and the Caribbean. The second, New World Poetics, is an environmental critique of the imagination of nature in the poetry of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott. I have also co-edited two books, one entitled Caribbean Literature and the Environment and the other, Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment.

I have directed a Study Abroad to London and will direct a program in the Caribbean in the summer of 2009. I am the advisor to the student club, EcoResponse, and am active in many civic activities. My wife, Amy, and I have four children and live here in Provo. I am currently finishing a book about the Provo River watershed.

Degrees

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1991
BA, Stanford University,1989

Interests

Literatures of the Americas
Ecocriticism and Ecotheology