Lauren S. Cardon

Associate Professor

of English,

University of Alabama

U.S. Literature & Ecocritical Scholarship

A Planet in Hospice: Environmental Justice in Existential Ecofiction

The Ohio State University Press, 2026/2027

How do we continue to love and care for the planet when it’s already too late? Planet in Hospice offers a vista of literary interpretations of the end times, of a world transformed by catastrophe. And yet even as these texts invite us to reflect on our mortality and the many ways that people are already impacted by disaster, they also encourage hope and connection. On the one hand, these narratives compel our confrontation with mortality, collapse, and extinction; on the other, they encourage readers to change our relationships with the environment––human and nonhuman. Ultimately, this “existential ecofiction” offers visions of a path forward, through the global climate crisis humans now face.

Teaching Interventions

Website & Blog, with Cassander L. Smith

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DEI Teaching Strategies

Check out Teaching Interventions, my website and blog collaboration with Cassander L. Smith.

Contact me for more information about speaking engagements or workshops!

Attitudes about race, impacted by our current political environment, have produced pedagogical challenges for professors in the humanities who teach subjects that involve discussions of racial difference. Through the Teaching Interventions website, Dr. Smith and I aim to help teacher-scholars discuss race and other charged topics in the college classroom.

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