Teaching for a Habitable Future with Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: “We’ll Have to Seed Ourselves Farther and Farther from This Dying Place”

christina katopodis is a postdoctoral research associate and associate director of Transformative Learning in the Humanities, a three-year initiative at the City University of New York supported by the Mellon Foundation. She is winner of the 2019 Diana Colbert Innovative Teaching Prize and the 2018 Dewey Digital Teaching Award. She has authored or coauthored articles in ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, MLA’s Profession, Hybrid Pedagogy, Inside Higher Ed, and Times Higher Ed. With Cathy N. Davidson, Katopodis is author of The New College Classroom (2022).