Washington and Lee University
Payne 214 Fall term office hours:
B.A., Auburn University 1976
Ph.D., Yale University 1982
Nineteenth-century literature and culture; literature of the environment; Walt Whitman.
English 362—American Romanticism
English 367—19th-Century American Novel
English 370—Literary Theory
WRIT 100—First Year Writing Seminar: Country and City
John Burroughs and the Place of Nature. University of Georgia Press, 2006.
The Culture of Eloquence. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
Walt Whitman's Language Experiment. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.
American Environmental Writing
Ecocriticism
Technology and Culture in 19th-Century America
Whitman
"Hunting House Mountain" (1999)
"Deep South to Deep North" (2007)
"John Burroughs and the Scientific Imagination" (forthcoming in ATQ)
"John Burroughs's Writing Retreats" (delivered at Roxbury, NY, June 2007)
Mary Austin's Road to the Spring