Professor Jason Groves (German Studies) works in several fields, but the broadest one is the environmental humanities. While Professor Groves was (and is) interested in literature and science, it was a course on literature and the environment that was the most impactful for his undergraduate studies. Today Professor Groves is most interested in the inhuman: how various notions of the human in the humanities have been constructed though forms of belonging and exclusion, especially the exclusion of those deemed nonhuman like animals, plants, and rocks. Professor Groves offers readings of literary and visual artists who seek in their art to understand and repair the rifts between the human and more-than-human world.
