This course examines British and American modernist works (c. 1900-1945) in the context of recent ecocriticism. The industrial and commercial cityscapes of iconic early twentieth-century texts may not seem likely candidates for environmental analysis, but following Jeffrey McCarthy’s Green Modernism (2015), the field of ecomodernism has grown rapidly, spreading beyond “green” to include “blue” (aquatic), “brown” (soil), and even “grey” (atmospheric) modernisms. Critical topics raised include the representation of nature (both rural and urban), human agency, and humans’ impact on the environment; examination of European/Western assumptions about dominance; and late-modernist “back to the land” movements. Literary works to be discussed may include poems of W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop; Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Joyce’s Ulysses (in part), Forster’s A Passage to India, Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, and Richard Wright’s Eight Men or Black Boy. Short paper/s, presentations, and research paper. This course serves as a deep dive into modernism as well as ecocriticism.