Undergraduate Senior Seminars:

• The Journals of Lewis and Clark
• Ecocriticism
• Literature and Environment
• The Concept of Place in Literature
• Contemporary American Nature Writing
• The History of American Nature Writing
• The Literary Representation of Nature: Humboldt, Darwin, Audubon, Carson
• The History of American Nature Writing

• The Literary Representation of Nature: Humboldt, Darwin, Audubon, Carson

Graduate Seminars:

• The Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau
• The Rise of the American Novel
• The Varieties of Nature in American Romanticism

Area of expertise:

• Early American Literature
• American Nature Writing (all periods)
• Early American Natural History
• Ecocriticism
• John James Audubon
• Susan Fenimore Cooper

Degrees and Universities:

• Kent State University, PhD, 1985
• Kent State University, MA, 1980
• Clemson University, BA, 1975

Books:

• Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008.
• Edward Taylor’s Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations: A Critical Edition (Kent State University Press, 2003).
• Essays on Nature and Landscape by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Co-edited with Rochelle Johnson. Introduction by Daniel Patterson. Foreword by John Elder (University of Georgia Press, 2002).
• Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works. Co-edited with Rochelle Johnson. Foreword by Lawrence Buell (University of Georgia Press, 2001).
• Rural Hours, by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Co-edited with Rochelle Johnson (University of Georgia Press, 1998).
• Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment. Co-edited with Michael Branch, Rochelle Johnson, and Scott Slovic (University of Idaho Press, 1998).

Books in Progress:

• The Voyage to The Birds of America: John James Audubon’s 1826 Journal (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009).

Areas of Research:

• Early American Nature Writing; John James Audubon

Professional Organizations:

• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment