The University of Hyderabad is pleased to announce a new course on the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) platform, titled “The Literature of Climate Crisis,” offered by Prof. Pramod K Nayar, Department of English.
Course Details
– Course Title: The Literature of Climate Crisis
– Start Date: August 2025
– Credits: 2
– Duration: 8 weeks
– Course Description: This course focuses on multiple literary genres – poetry, fiction, memoirs, graphic novels – from around the world, works that address the environmental crisis since the 1990s. It explores the aesthetics, form, and politics of these texts. The course includes modules on wilderness and the post-natural, extinction and rewilding, multispecies writing, habits and habitation, and environmental justice.
Target Audience
This course is designed for Literary Studies scholars and anyone interested in environmental literature and the climate crisis.
Contribution to SDG Initiative
This course contributes in a significant way to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) initiative of the University of Hyderabad and fulfills one of the mandates of the UNESCO Chair.
About the Instructor
Pramod K Nayar is a Senior Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, and the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies. His recent, and relevant books, include Vulnerable Earth (Cambridge 2024), Nuclear Cultures (Routledge 2023), The Human Rights Graphic Novel (Routledge 2021), Ecoprecarity (Routledge 2019), Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), among others. His Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment: Place, Precarity, and Justice is due for release from Bloomsbury UK in 2025.
Enrollment
The course is now open for enrollment on the NPTEL platform.