Personal Summary

I've lived and worked in Missoula since 2004, and enjoy the vibrant community of scholars and students working in the environmental humanities at UM. My research interests include Literature and Environmental Justice, Climate-Change Literature, Anthropocene Theory and Literature, Environmental Philosophy (Eco-feminism, Eco-phenomonology and Social Ecology), Multi-Species Justice and Wilderness Studies. I regularly teach courses in Anthropocene Literature (500 and 300 level), Environmental Justice (500 level), Literature and Climate-Change (LIT 491), Ecocritical Theory and Practice (LIT 420), Literary Theory (LIT 300), British Romanticism (LIT 355) and Literature and Wilderness ("Wild Things" LIT 246). I'm also serving as as the Director of the Literature and the Environment program and am the primary contact person for this area of study.     

Education

B.A.   University of California, Santa Barbara

M.A.   University of British Columbia 

Ph.D.   Indiana University, Bloomington

Courses Taught

I regularly teach courses on environmental theory and praxis, the Anthropocene, literature and climate change, the history of wilderness, environmental justice, critical theory and British Romanticism.  I'm also interested in speculative feminism(s)/fabulation, and will be teaching future courses in this area.

Selected Publications

Wild Anthropocene: Literature, Environmental Justice and the Future of Biodiversity (Routledge, "Environmental Humanities" series ed. Scott Slovic et. al.  forthcoming)

Surreal Entanglements:  Essays on Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction. Co-edited with Laura Shackelford (Routledge, "Studies in World Literatures and the Environment" series ed. Scott Slovic, 2021)

The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature (Palgrave-Macmillan Press, "Literatures, Cultures and Humanities" series ed. Ursula K. Heise, 2016)

"Recycled Creatures and Rogue Genomes:  Biotechnology in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas."  Literature Compass  6:3 (2009).

"Romantic Individualism, Animal Rights and the Challenge of Multiplicity."  Rhizomes 15 (Winter 2007).

"Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism and Deep Ecology:  A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature."  Romantic Circles Praxis Series (February  2007).

"'Mont Blanc' and the Sublimity of Materiality."  Cultural Critique  61 (2005).