English

Specializations

American literature, environmental studies, online learning

Biography

Penn State University, PhD, 1985
Western Washington University, MA and BA, 1980 and 1978
EWU Professor of English, 2007; Associate, 2003; Assistant, 2000; Visiting Assistant, 1997; Lecturer, 1994-1997
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Idaho, 1990-1994

Worked through college as a homebuilder, industrial waste recycler, Teamster, longshoreman, and forklift operator. Have won awards from the Academy of American Poets and Society of Professional Journalists; published some 170 books, book chapters, articles, essays, columns, reviews, and poems; given more than 100 public presentations, including a 2010 Hilliard Endowment in the Humanities address; and serve on editorial advisory boards for the Journal of Ecocriticism (University of British Columbia) and European Journal of American Culture (University of Kent, UK). 

Books: John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler: A Critical Edition of Two Voyages to New-England (Univ. Press of New England, 1988); Cascadia Wild: Protecting an International Ecosystem; History and Folklore of the Cowichan Indians; Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West; The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition; and In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau (literary nonfiction, University of Iowa Press, 2011).

Recent Publications

"The Blacksmith." Portland Monthly Jan. 2012: 68-9.

"From Sublimity to Ecopornography: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection" (environmental history). 
Journal of Ecocriticism 1.1 (January 2009): 1-25.

"Giving Voices," "Mary Dyer," "American Triptych," "Sarah Hawkridge," and "The Great Awakening" (poems). 
Common-place (online journal sponsored by American Antiquarian Society).

Courses Taught

Graduate Research in Literature (English 521)
Environmental Literature (498/598)
Faulkner and Frost (436/553)
Whitman and Dickinson (436/553)
American Literature I (343)
American Literature II (344)
The Graphic Novel (315)