Podcast: How literature can help us learn about the environment

By Maï­na Durafour | UConn Jour­nal­ism
Octo­ber 30, 2023

The envi­ron­ment is a con­cern for many peo­ple as we hear about cli­mate change fre­quent­ly. We can find a lot of infor­ma­tion through news­pa­pers, doc­u­men­tary, or media in gen­er­al. How­ev­er, those infor­ma­tion are not always digestible for readers.

This inter­view with UConn Eng­lish Pro­fes­sor Wayne Franklin intro­duces anoth­er way to think about the envi­ron­ment, through literature.

Pic­ture of the pond where Wayne used to go as a kid. Pho­to cour­tesy of Wayne Franklin.
Screen­shot of the area where Wayne grew up, one of the place he calls “home.”
Pro­fes­sor Wayne Franklin / hand­out photo

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