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Taylor Brorby is the current Annie Clark Annie Clark Tanner Teaching & Research Fellow in Environmental Humanities. He is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing up gay in a fractured land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, the MacDowell Colony, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Mesa Refuge, Blue Mountain Center, and the North Dakota Humanities Council.

Celebrate Pride Week by joining Taylor Brorby, Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities for a reading and discussion of his memoir, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, on March 29 at 4p in the Jewel Box (CTIHB 145). Refreshments provided.

Chris Ingraham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and on the core faculty of the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. His work as an active teacher and researcher is in the areas of media aesthetics, environmental communication, and rhetorical theory. Generally, he tries to draw on the insights of these fields to think about the material, aesthetic, and affective practices that configure the environments we create and inhabit. Before becoming an academic, he worked for several years as a freelance writer. Though the arts remain central to his interests, his academic training across the humanities commits him to cross-disciplinary thinking with the belief that we should bring all available knowledge to the problems we're trying to understand.

Environmental Humanities has opened the application round for the next Research Professor for the 23/24 term. Rachel Mason Dentinger, the current EH Research Professor, will give a talk on 11/22 at 4p.

Dr. Gregory E. Smoak recently gave the keynote talk on Utah’s water history at the Utah State Historical Society Conference. Greg is the director of the American West Center and the Utah Humanities State Scholar for Think Water Utah. His essay “Utah Waterways” examines Utah’s water history and contemporary challenges, including the crisis at Great Salt Lake. He has an extensive background in Native history, public history, and environmental history in the West.