Concepts: • What is Ecocriticism? • Ecocriticism and the Developing World • Eco-feminism • Anthropocene • Environmental Justice Critical Works: Greta Gaard & Lori Gruen “Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health” Timothy Clark “Nature, Post Nature” Joni Adamson “Environmental Justice, Cosmopolitics, and Climate Change” Rob Nixon Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Selections) Greg Garrard Ecocriticism (Selections) Christophe Bonneuil & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us (Selections) Literary Texts: Henry David Thoreau “Walking” from Atlantic Monthly, 1862 Lindsey Collen There is a Tide Amitav Ghosh The Hungry Tide