Michael Branch

Mike Branch is an Associate Professor of Literature and Environment in the English department. His research specialties include early American literature and environmental writing. He teaches courses in colonial, antebellum, and romantic American literature, the novel, nature writing, and the writing of natural history. He lectures regularly in Core Humanities 203 and was the University Distinguished Professor of the Humanities 2003-2004, becoming the Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor 2004-2005. His lecture, "Declaring Intellectual Independence: Emerson, Thoreau, and American Romanticism," was broadcast in the KNPB series, The Western Traditions Lectures. His undergraduate degree is from the College of William and Mary (1985), his M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees from the University of Virginia. He came to UNR from Florida International University in 1995.

Michael Branch
Mike Branch is an Associate Professor of Literature and Environment in the English department. His research specialties include early American literature and environmental writing. He teaches courses in colonial, antebellum, and romantic American literature, the novel, nature writing, and the writing of natural history. He lectures regularly in Core Humanities 203 and was the University Distinguished Professor of the Humanities 2003-2004, becoming the Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor 2004-2005. His lecture, "Declaring Intellectual Independence: Emerson, Thoreau, and American Romanticism," was broadcast in the KNPB series, The Western Traditions Lectures. His undergraduate degree is from the College of William and Mary (1985), his M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees from the University of Virginia. He came to UNR from Florida International University in 1995.
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