L&E Alumni
Graduates of UNR’s Literature and Environment MA and PhD programs have gone on to achieve success in a wide range of advanced graduate programs, professional careers, and public service fields. Among MA graduates who have proceeded to advanced graduate studies, our alumni have been accepted to Columbia University, Brown University, University of Virginia, University of Arizona, University of Oregon, University of Minnesota, Georgia State University, Washington State University, CUNY, Essex University, University of Birmingham, and elsewhere, and have pursued PhD and other advanced programs in literary studies, comparative literature, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, environmental studies, educational administration, popular culture studies, African studies, American studies, culinary and food studies, peace studies, women’s studies, library science, and environmental law. Other MA graduates have gone directly into careers in editing, publishing, marketing, communications, journalism, digital design, public lands management, environmental education, museum administration, non-profit consulting, and into teaching at the secondary, junior college, or college levels. Yet others have started field institutes, served in the Peace Corps, or become Fulbright Scholars. Alumni of our PhD program have gone on to careers in teaching and research, editing and publishing, and nonprofit administration, and have received faculty appointments at University of Massachusetts, University of Alaska, Kanazawa University (Japan), Okanagan College (Canada), Idaho State University, Humboldt State University, Boise State University, Northern Michigan University, Mansfield University, University of California-Santa Barbara, Concordia University, University of the Ryukyus (Japan), Lake Tahoe Community College, Fordham University, Appalachian State University, IULM (Italy), Northland College, University of California-Davis, Young Harris College, and elsewhere. A number of L&E dissertations and spinoff projects have been published as books, and many of our alumni have won major teaching, research, and service awards.
PhD
Patrick Barron
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston (To begin fall 2006, after completing a Rome Prize postdoctoral fellowship from the American Academy in Rome.)
Jim Bishop
Dissertation: "Manly Natures: Masculinity and Environment in American Literature, 1782-1806"
Paul Bogard, 2007
Meg Cooke
Jennifer Dawes-Adkison, 2000
Dissertation: "The Wide, Wide West: Women, Sentimental Fiction, and the Western Environments"
Assistant Professor, Idaho State University
Richard Hunt, 2000
Dissertation: "Heaven and Earth: The Integration of Faith and Science in American Nature Writing"
Jerry Keir
Corey Lewis, 2003
Dissertation, subsequently published as Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest (Reno: U of Nevada P, 2005).
Assistant Professor, Humboldt State University
Susan Lucas, 2002
Dissertation: "Traveling in place: contemporary American nature writing and the question of culture"
Barbara "Barney" Nelson, 1997
Dissertation: "Mary Austin's Domestic Wildness: An Ecocritical Investigation of Animals," subsequently published as The Wild and the Domestic: Animal Representation, Ecocriticism, and Western American Literature (Reno: U of Nevada P, 2000).
Anna Re
Suzanne Roberts
Chris Robertson, 2003
Dissertation: "Ground Truth: a Memoir of Family and Place"
Linda Ruzich
Teresa Ryan, 2007
John Smihula
Ceiridwen Terrill, 2004
Dissertation: "Voyage of the Grebe: Island Observations in the Desert West, Baja California, and Coastal California"
Denice Turner
Dissertation: "The Surly Bonds of Earth": Discourses of Transcendental and American Flight Autobiography
Jen Westerman
Gioia Woods, 1999
Dissertation: "Making Place in Western American Autobiography: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, William Kittredge, Lorena Hays, and Maxine Hong Kingston"
Assitant Professor, Humanities, Northern Arizona University
Shin Yamashiro, 2003
Dissertation: "Peter Matthiessen and the Literature of Environmental Justice : 'All Problems Merge'"
Masami Raker Yuki, 2000
Dissertation: "Towards a Literary Theory of Acoustic Ecology: Soundscapes in Contemporary Environmental Literature"
Associate Professor, Kanazawa University, Japan
MA
Crystal Koch Atamian
Robert Azzarello, 2004
PhD student, CUNY Graduate Center.
Geoff Baker
PhD student, Columbia University Teachers College
Fay Beebee, 2005
Thesis: "Reimagining an Ethic of Place: Terry Tempest Williams's New Language for Nature and Community"
Melissa Blake
Leigha Butler
Mike Colpo
Sarah Cumbie, 2005
Todd Fisher
Madison Furrh
Thesis: "Cartesian Philosophy and Newtonian Physics in the Literature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony."
Paul Formisano, 2005
Steven Hall, 2005
Kris Hansen
Ayano Ginoza
Quinn Gorman, 2004
Kerry Grimm, 2005
Lilace Mellin Guignard
Emily Heun, 2004
Law student, Vermont.
Tom Hillard
Eryn Hoagland
Jamie Iredell
Dmitri Keriotis
Kim Leeder, 2000
Thesis: "How to Name a Desert: John C. Frémont and the Literary Landscape"
Cherie Lemer
Heather Krebs
Megan Kuster
Mike Lundblad
Eric Martin, 2000
Thesis: "Flight"