As both a student of ecocriticism and as a citizen of the world, ask yourself how the role of scholarship—thinking and writing—can, as Glotfelty suggests, “contribute to environmental restoration”? How can ecological criticism reconnect human culture to the physical world?As both a student of ecocriticism and as a citizen of the world, ask yourself how the role of scholarship—thinking and writing—can, as Glotfelty suggests, “contribute to environmental restoration”? How can ecological criticism reconnect human culture to the physical world?