Bryan Yazell

Bryan Yazell is an Associate Professor of Anglophone Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and a Senior Fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. His research explores how storytelling conventions from science fiction shape our imagination of the environment and climate change today. Inspired by scholarship on ‘eco-anxiety’, he has co-developed speculative writing workshops for secondary students in Denmark. These workshops explore the ways writing fiction might articulate the feelings of fear, anger, and unease that young people often associate with climate change—and also aim to generate feelings of hope and solidarity in the process of composing and sharing these stories together.