Michael Wutz
Humanities Scholarship
Spring 2022
(Literature-Scholarship) – Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor of English, Weber State University – Germany/United States
Michael Wutz’ proposal investigates the continued relevance of contemporary fiction in the Anthropocene, especially how current forms of narrative are responding to climate change. The project, in that sense, has a double focus that eventually branches out into a third: how does ambitious fiction engage the larger ecological crises affecting the planet?