MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES | ENERGY AND EXHAUSTION | SPRING 2025

Getting Warmer?  Telling Stories About Climate Change

Christian Thorne • Williams College

March 31st @ 6pm • Daniel Family Commons

It is proving difficult to write novels about climate change, especially non-speculative ones, and classical narratology goes a long way toward explaining why this would be. Many of the basic techniques of novel writing seem ill-suited to the distributed nonevent that is climate change. Christian Thorne considers recent work on climate fiction by Ursula Heise and Amitav Ghosh before recommending maritime literature as one possible genre whose distinctive conventions suggest new possibilities for the literature of our tumultuous present.

Energy and Exhaustion
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