dr. fawn canady

Assistant Professor of Literacy, Southern Oregon University | Co-Director, Oregon Writing Project (OWP) | Faculty Fellow, Institute for Applied Sustainability Co-Director of two NEH Summer Institutes: Human/Nature & The Future Earth Story Project Co-Project Lead, Collective Cartography

Assistant Professor of Literacy, Southern Oregon University | Co-Director, Oregon Writing Project (OWP) | Faculty Fellow, Institute for Applied Sustainability Co-Director of two NEH Summer Institutes: Human/Nature & The Future Earth Story Project Co-Project Lead, Collective Cartography

Human/Nature

An Exploration of Place, Story & Climate Futurism

A National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute on climate futurism, or imagining alternative futures for life on our planet through cli-fi, literature, and scientific inquiry. A journey starting with Octavia E. Butler's classic, Parable of the Sower, and young adult literature with teen protagonists. Human/Nature was a combined format, 3-week summer institute for 25 secondary Language Arts teachers. It featured interdisciplinary fieldwork, digital media literacy, and multimodality. Participants spent two weeks at Sonoma State University and attended five virtual meetings before and after the institute to cultivate curricular action plans.