George B. Handley
# George B. Handley

George Browning Handley is a professor of humanities at Brigham Young University (BYU) who has often written on issues related to environmentalism.

## Early life

Handley was raised in Connecticut, United States.

## Education

Handley has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a masters and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

## Career

He taught at Northern Arizona University before joining the BYU faculty in 1998. He also served as chair of BYU's department of humanities, classics and comparative literature.

## Works

Handley's works have focused on the interaction of culture and the physical environment. His most cited work is Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture co-authored with Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey.

Among other works by Handley are Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2010), New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2007), Stewardship and Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment and Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000).

## Religion

Handley is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In the LDS Church he has served as a bishop and counselor in a stake presidency.

## Personal life

Handley and his wife Amy are the parents of four children. The family lives in Provo, Utah.

