Stephanie LeMenager

The Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor in English and American Literature

Professor of Environmental Studies

Stephanie LeMenager's work on climate change and the humanities has been featured in The New York Times, ClimateWire, Science Friday, NPR, the CBC, and other public venues. She is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, where she co-directs the Center for Environmental Futures with Professor Marsha Weisiger, an environmental historian. Her publications include the books Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century, which examines the 20th-century United States in terms of its aspirations toward petromodernity, Manifest and Other Destinies, a monograph about the alternatives to Manifest Destiny (i.e. settler colonialism) that might have developed in what is now the US West, Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century, a co-authored essay collection for scholars, Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, a co-edited collection for teachers interested in bringing climate change into humanities classrooms, and the co-edited Literature and Environment: Primary and Critical Sources, an anthology of ecocritical sources. LeMenager’s current book projects include To Speak of Common Places, an oral history of Oregon's public lands with Prof. Marsha Weisiger and a book-length monograph on fiction and lies in the era of climate collapse.

Professor LeMenager is dedicated to place-based teaching and scholarship that crosses humanities disciplines without jargon or elitism, and in the interest of putting our narrative skills to the task of surviving the climate crisis.

Prof. LeMenager's publications at Academia.edu

Q and A on “What Are the Environmental Humanities?” @ Chicago Humanities Festival 2019