Ken Hiltner is a professor of English literature and Environmental Studies. He explores the history of literature and the relationship between literary history and our Earth in order to better understand how we arrived at our current Environmental beliefs. Hiltner is active in examining Environmental issues from various perspectives. He hosts a weekly podcast, the Environmental Humanities Podcast, where he conducts interviews with scholars and artists to discuss how Environmental issues are taken up across the humanities. He also has given various talks, such as "Nature: How Much Does it Matter," "The Role of Our Past In Our Environmental Future," and "Environmental Criticism: What is at Stake?"