AUDIO & VIDEO
FOR TEACHING CLIMATE FICTION
AUDIO
ANNOTATED
An Intro to Cli-Fi (Climate Change Fiction). Short radio interview with Sarah Dimick, a scholar who works on cli-fi. Among other things, Dimick traces the genre all the way back to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and recommends several examples, including many authors of color and/or female authors. Good for playing in class. (9 minutes)
Telling the Story of Climate Change — In Fiction. In-depth radio conversation with cli-fi author Paolo Bacigalupi and cli-fi scholar Stephanie LeMenager. (26:12 minutes)
VIDEO
ANNOTATED
Contemporary Cli-Fi and Indigenous Futurisms, Nicole Seymour and Briggetta Pierrot. Academic presentation discussing 4 cli-fi novels and their representation (or lack thereof) of Indigenous peoples and perspectives. (17:34)
“What is Cli-Fi?” — Stephanie LeMenager (2:33 minutes)