Recent Publications

"The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century." University of Alabama Press, October 2007.

(With Michelle Harvey) “’Mas Tamales, Anybody?’: Denise Chávez’s  The Last of the Menu Girls and the Chicana Narrative of Communities.” Narratives of Community: Women’s Short Story Sequences. Ed. Roxanne Harde. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 241-262.

Pivots, Reversals, and Things in the Aesthetic Economy of Williams Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham. Connotations: A Journal  for Critical Debate 15. 1-3 (2007): 1-16

Activating the ‘Art of Knowing’: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and Environmental Writing. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 11.2 (2004): 1-24.

(Eco)logic in Utah Landscapes: Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams. Space-Place-Environment. Ed. Lothar Hönnighausen. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2004.101-114.

Northern Imagination, Political Reality, and Arctic Dreams: Ecological Nonfiction and the Arctic. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven in der Nordamerika-Forschung.Ed. Friedrich Jaeger. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001.81-94.

'Peace, Order, and Good Government,' or ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness’: Community and Identity in Canada and the United States.Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 37.1 (2000): 85-96.