Education
Handley has a bachelor"s degree from Stanford University and a masters and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Handley has a bachelor"s degree from Stanford University and a masters and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Handley was raised in Connecticut. He taught at Dominican College and Northern Arizona University before joining the Brigham Young University faculty in 1998. Handley has served as chair of Brigham Young University"s department of humanities, classics and comparative literature.
Handley"s works have focused on the interaction of culture and the physical environment.
Handley"s most cited work appears to be 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: Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Perspectives on the Environment and Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000).