George B. Handley
George Handley in 2018
26th President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Assumed office
2022
Co-leader with Gisela Heffes
Preceded byLaura Barbas-Rhoden
Bethany Wiggin
Personal details
CitizenshipAmerican
SpouseAmy Handley
Children4
Residence(s)Provo, Utah,
United States
EducationMA, PhD
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
ProfessionAcademician

George Browning Handley is a professor of humanities at Brigham Young University (BYU) who has often written on issues related to environmentalism.

Early life

Handley was raised in Connecticut, United States.

Education

Handley has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a masters and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

He taught at Northern Arizona University before joining the BYU faculty in 1998. He also served as chair of BYU's department of humanities, classics and comparative literature.[1]

Works

Handley's works have focused on the interaction of culture and the physical environment. His most cited work is Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture co-authored with Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey.[2]

Among other works by Handley are Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2010), New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2007), Stewardship and Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment[3] and Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000).

Religion

Handley is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In the LDS Church he has served as a bishop and counselor in a stake presidency.

Personal life

Handley and his wife Amy are the parents of four children. The family lives in Provo, Utah.

Notes

  1. ↑ Announcement of speech Handley was to give
  2. ↑ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
  3. ↑ "Utah Humanities Council bio". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-06-07.

References

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