Jim Warren

Jim Warren

Jim Warren

Professor of English Emeritus

Education

  • B.A., Auburn University 1976
  • Ph.D., Yale University 1982

Research

  • Nineteenth-century literature and culture
  • Literature of the environment
  • Walt Whitman

Teaching

  • English 362-American Romanticism
  • English 367-19th-Century American Novel
  • English 370-Literary Theory
  • WRIT 100-First Year Writing Seminar: Country and City

Seminar and Capstone Courses

  • American Environmental Writing
  • Ecocriticism
  • Technology and Culture in 19th-Century America
  • Whitman

Selected Publications

  • Placing John Haines. University of Alaska Press, 2017.

  • Other Country: Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists. University of Arizona Press, 2015.

  • The Road to the Spring: The Collected Poems of Mary Austin. Syracuse University Press, 2014.

  • 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

Recent Articles and Talks

  • "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)