title: George B. Handley
text: # 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.
  
  