BA (U California, Davis), MA (Western State College), MA, PhD (Cornell U)
Associate Professor
Specialization:
Western American literature, literature and environment, ecocriticism, women and literature, American literature, literature of aging, Nevada.
Select Publications:
The ecocriticism reader: Landmarks in literary ecology. (Co-edited with Harold Fromm). 1996. Athens: U of Georgia Press.
Old Folks in the New West: Surviving change and staying fit in the misfits. 2002. In: Western American Literature 37.1:26-49.
Spiritual testing in the nuclear west. 2001. In: Literature and Belief 21.1 and 21.2: 221-34.
Literary place bashing, test site Nevada. 2001. In: Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace (eds). Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the boundaries of ecocriticism. Charlottesville: U of Virginia press. pp 233-47.
Cold war, silent spring: The trop of war in modern environmentalism. 2000. In: Craig Waddell (ed). And no birds sing.: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U Press. pp 157-73.