UC Santa Barbara's English Department provides graduate students with a range of resources to aid in the study of literature and the environment. This begins with our extraordinary faculty, who approach environmental issues from a variety of diverse and exciting perspectives. The regular meetings of the Graduate Colloquium in Literature and the Environment (GCLE) bring together faculty and graduate students in order to discuss their own work, and to keep current with ecocritical studies. There are also teaching opportunities available for graduate students interested in literature and the environment. Finally, we hope in the near future to make a "Theories of Literature and the Environment" list an option for the First Qualifying Exam, as well as to allow students pursuing a Ph.D. in English to petition the Department to add an emphasis in Literature and the Environment. Please check back with this site regularly; quite a few changes are in the works!