Ryan Eichberger teaches courses in environmental and digital-visual media traditions. His expertise is in ecocritical computing: the study of the cultural, environmental, and ethical dimensions of electronic and computing technologies. He regularly offers courses in science communication and journalism.
As a teacher, Ryan aims to create situations where students can engage in genuinely felt discussion about complicated and timely subjects. He likes to get students moving around and taking part in tactile learning with media and artifacts. Above all, Ryan’s goal is that students should have room to figure out how to be good citizens of the world.
Ryan's research focuses on the history of glacier and landscape photography in Iceland, including themes of ecological grief. He also reseaches the relationship between AI boosterism and the plantation logics of empire. He advocates AI skepticism.
He also currently researches the usability of syllabi for neurodivergent learners.
When not teaching or researching, Ryan loves baking, wildlife photography, and science fiction. Talk to him about birds.
Fall 2025 Courses
- WRIT 120: Being Good Ancestors in the Web of Life
- ENGL 285: Digital Rhetoric and New Media Literacies
Spring 2026 Courses
- ENGL 273: Disability, Rhetoric, and the Environment
- ENGL 288: Literary and Investigative Journalism
- WRIT 211: Science in World and Word