BA (College of William and Mary), MA, PhD (U Virginia)
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Specialization:
American environmental literature, 19th century American literature, colonial American literature.
Select Publications:
Reading the roots: American nature writing before Walden. (Editor). 2004. University of Georgetown Press.
The ISLE reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003. (Co-editor with Scott Slovic). 2003. University of Georgia Press.
John Muir's last journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa; Unpublished journals and selected correspondence. (Editor). 2001. Island Press/Shearwater Books.
Reading the earth: New directions in the study of literature and the environment. (Co-editor with Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson and Scott Slovic). 1998. University of Idaho Press.
The height of our mountains: Nature writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley. (Co-editor with Daniel J. Philippon). 1998. Johns Hopkins University Press.