Mike Osborne, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Environmental Earth Systems Scienc,e is teaching “Communicating Environmental Research Using Narratives and Stories” this quarter. He talked to Leland Quarterly about this love of literature, scientific research, and a quality zombie movie.
What motivated you to teach a course about narrative and the environment?
Zombies motivated me. The idea for a class started when I was having a beer with Miles Traer, a GES Masters student who’s been crucial to the development of this course. We talked about the apocalyptic rhetoric people …