Dr. Shannon Finck | Georgia State University

ENGL 1102: Writing Climate Futures

Course Description In his 2016 book, The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh claims that the climate crisis is not only an environmental or geopolitical problem; it is also “a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.” This course begins there, not with climate science or with policy, but with climate writing, both fiction and non,…

HON 1103: Labor Histories & the Future of Work

Course Description As new college students, you begin your educational journeys in a climate of uncertainty about the future of labor. You set schedules, choose majors, and prepare to enter the workforce in the wake of pandemic rhetoric about “essential and inessential workers” and against a backdrop of news and magazine headlines about the rise…

Poem in Salt Hill

Read my poem in Issue 49 of Salt Hill, then check out the rest of the issue, which is exquisite, here.

HON 3280: Service-Learning Blog

Read HON 3280 students’ accounts of their service-learning journeys and see some of their public-facing projects here: https://sites.gsu.edu/hon3280/ This blog is an ongoing and evolving record of the course, so there will be even more to see here soon!

Short Films on Environmental Literacy (ENGL 1101, Georgia State University, Spring 2023)

These short films by Isaac Breiding and Zion Brown demonstrate students’ award-winning efforts at describing the difficulty of feeling especially connected to the natural world in urban settings (and given the pace of contemporary life as college students) as well as what they might be missing out on by not prioritizing those connections. Both of…

Poem in Tiny Spoon

Buy Issue 10 to read it!

Ghost Peach Press

About Us Ghost Peach Press is a small, ghostly press based in Atlanta. Each year, we publish 1-2 full-length collections of poetry and—coming soon—creative nonfiction/lyric essays. We recommend you bite into our books while standing over the kitchen sink. We publish full-length poetry collections and—forthcoming in 2024—creative nonfiction essay collections…

Poem in Canary

Read it here: https://canarylitmag.org/archive_by_issue.php?issue=60

HON 3280: Honors Service-Learning Seminar in Urban Ecology and Environmental Conservation

Course Description Atlanta has been called “a city in a forest” for its urban canopy and surrounding woodlands, but is it a sustainable city? It is not, for instance, an “A-list city,” according to the CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project). A recent article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution cites a new plastic plant, airport fuel spills, and…

Sample Student Podcasts (ENGL 1101, Georgia State University, Fall 2022)

In this class, we discussed episodes of audio podcasts (Broken Ground, Living Planet, Who Cares Wins, & Breaking Green Ceilings) that each took on a small piece of the immense and intricate puzzle presented by global climate change. Our exemplary compositions used several rhetorical approaches by presenting both problems and potential solutions/mitigations with guest experts and co-hosts (building…