Ursula Heise's guest appearances

Ursula Heise

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Being Human

Literature and the Environment - Lectures

Henry James

Richard Rorty

Emily Dickinson

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Mark McGurl

Hans Sluga

Henry David Thoreau

Thomas Ryckman

Paul Rabinow

Dante Pt

Rachel Jacoff

Marisa Galvez

Thomas Sheehan

Leo Tolstoy

Andrew Mitchell

OwlTail

Ursula Heise is the Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies at UCLA. She is best known for her work in environmental criticism and environmental humanities, fields she began exploring in the late 90’s. Her 2008 book Sense of Place and Sense of Planet has been described as a landmark book for inaugurating attention to globalism in environmental thinking. This book was at the heart of a recent retrospective in the journal Resilience, which noted that her work has created a network of influence that spans oceans as well as disciplines. Professor Heise’s newest book is entitled Imagining Extinction: the Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species, published in 2016 with the University of Chicago Press. 

Ursula Heise is the Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies at UCLA. She is best known for her work in environmental criticism and environmental humanities, fields she began exploring in the late 90’s. Her 2008 book Sense of Place and Sense of Planet has been described as a landmark book for inaugurating attention to globalism in environmental thinking. This book was at the heart of a recent retrospective in the journal Resilience, which noted that her work has created a network of influence that spans oceans as well as disciplines. Professor Heise’s newest book is entitled Imagining Extinction: the Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species, published in 2016 with the University of Chicago Press.

Imagining Global Futures: An Interview with Ursula Heise

April 12, 2012--Robert Harrison speaks with Ursula Heise about human and animal extinction.

Extinction - Ursula Heise

Seminar with Ursula Heise