LIT 3313-Fall 2025-Sevin

How does science fiction imagine the agency of nature, nonhuman life, and planetary futures? This course examines speculative fiction that rethinks ecology and human relationships with the environment. It investigates representations of alien ecosystems, artificial ecologies, and speculative world-building that challenges anthropocentric perspectives. Readings include Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, and contemporary works such as Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built.