George B. Handley

{{Short description|American academic}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| image = George Handley (44107813294).jpg

| office = 26th President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

| co-leader = Gisela Heffes

| predecessor = Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Bethany Wiggin

| termstart = 2022

| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley

| education = MA, PhD

| citizenship = American

| profession = Academician

| allegiance =

| caption = George Handley in 2018

| spouse = Amy Handley

| children = 4

| residence = Provo, Utah,
United States

}}

George Browning Handley is a professor of humanities at Brigham Young University (BYU) who has often written on issues related to environmentalism.

Early life

Handley was raised in Connecticut, United States.

Education

Handley has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a masters and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

He taught at Northern Arizona University before joining the BYU faculty in 1998. He also served as chair of BYU's department of humanities, classics and comparative literature.[http://millerecclestexas.org/2013/03/04/april-19-21-2013-george-handley-2/ Announcement of speech Handley was to give]

Works

Handley's works have focused on the interaction of culture and the physical environment. His most cited work is Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture co-authored with Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey.{{Cite web|title=Google Scholar|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=George+Handley&btnG=&as_sdt=1,23&as_sdtp=|access-date=2021-10-27|website=scholar.google.com}}

Among other works by Handley are Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River (Salt Lake

City: University of Utah Press, 2010), New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2007), Stewardship and Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment{{Cite web |url=http://www.utahhumanities.org/UPS-GeorgeHandley.htm |title=Utah Humanities Council bio |access-date=2014-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021203053/http://www.utahhumanities.org/UPS-GeorgeHandley.htm |archive-date=2014-10-21 |url-status=dead }} and Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000).

Religion

Handley is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In the LDS Church he has served as a bishop and counselor in a stake presidency.

Personal life

Handley and his wife Amy are the parents of four children. The family lives in Provo, Utah.

Notes

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References

  • [http://mormonscholarstestify.org/1489/george-handley Mormon Scholars Testify entry]
  • [http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/upcat&CISOPTR=1668 University of Utah press article on Handley's book Home Waters]
  • [http://bycommonconsent.com/2010/12/12/home-waters-a-review-of-george-handleys-new-book/ By Common Consent blog entry on Handley]
  • [http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=2805 Richard Cracroft's review of Home Waters]
  • [http://ldsearthstewardship.org/2014/05/stewardship-action-george-handley/ LDS Earth Stewardship profile of Handley]
  • [https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/issues/V44N02.pdf Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]

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