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contributors Peter Blakemore lives in the top of the Willamette Valley in Eugene, Oregon , where he teaches literature, environmental studies, and writing at the University of Oregon. He has published essays on inhabitation , western literature, and composition and is currently revising a manuscript, ‘‘Writing Home: Inhabitation and Imagination in American Literature.’’ He is also transcribing Thoreau’s handwritten Journal for the Princeton University Press’s revised scholarly edition of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. J. Scott Bryson is an assistant professor of English at Sul Ross State University, Rio Grande College. His publications include work on W. S. Merwin and Thomas Pynchon , and he has just completed his dissertation, ‘‘Place and Space in Contemporary Ecological Poetry : Wendell Berry, Joy Harjo, and Mary Oliver,’’ at the University of Kentucky. Aimin Cheng is a professor at Nanjing Normal University, China. He was awarded a United Board fellowship to study Thoreau at Harvard University. He has published several books, more than 30 scholarly articles, and has translated Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 and D. H. Lawrence ’s The Trespasser. Greg Garrard is a lecturer in English at Bath Spa University College in the United Kingdom. He has pub281 lished essays on ‘‘green’’ romanticism and Northern Irish writing, and is currently working on a monograph on ‘‘ecocriticism.’’ Stephen Germic teaches in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. He has published on Hawthorne and has two essays forthcoming on class in nineteenth-century American nature writing. Germic’s completed book manuscript is titled First Parks: Central Park, Yosemite, Yellowstone , and the Nature of American Exceptionalism. Rochelle Johnson is an assistant professor of English at Albertson College of Idaho, where she teaches courses in American literature and environmental studies. With Daniel Patterson, she completed an edition of Susan Fenimore Cooper ’s Rural Hours. Susan M. Lucas is a Ph.D. candidate in the Literature and Environment program at the University of Nevada , Reno. Her research examines the intersections between nature writing and travel writing. She is currently managing editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. James G. McGrath, when not writing or teaching environmental literature , divides his time between work as an alderman on the Missoula City Council and as a community garden organizer for Gar- 282 Contributors den City Harvest, managing a neighborhood community garden and growing 3,500 pounds of organic produce for the local food bank and other food programs, including over 260 pounds of beans. Barbara ‘‘Barney’’ Nelson is an assistant professor of English at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. Her publications include three books: Voices and Visions of the American West, The Last Campfire: The Life Story of Ted Gray, A West Texas Rancher, and Here’s to the Vinegarroon! A scholarly investigation of the dichotomy between wild and domestic animals in American literature is forthcoming. Ted Olson is an assistant professor of English and director of Appalachian-Scottish-Irish Studies at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. His book Blue Ridge Folklife was published in 1998. James A. Papa, Jr., a poet and essayist, is an assistant professor of English at York College, CUNY. He has published critical essays on Henry Thoreau, Jack London, Annie Dillard , and Edward Abbey. Bernard W. Quetchenbach is an assistant professor of English and chair of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. His book concerning contemporary environmental poetry is forthcoming. He has published poetry and articles in many journals. David M. Robinson is Oregon Professor of English and Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Oregon State University. He is serving as president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. His publications include Emerson and the Conduct of Life (1993) and World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor. William Rossi is an associate professor at the University of Oregon, where he teaches American literature and environmental studies. He is author of essays on Emerson, Thoreau, and others and co-editor most recently of Thoreau’s Journal, Volume 6: 1853 (forthcoming). Robert Sattelmeyer is chair and professor of English at Georgia State University. He has edited and published numerous works on Thoreau, including Thoreau’s Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue. Richard J. Schneider is professor of English and Slife Professor in the Humanities at Wartburg College. He has written and edited various books and essays on Thoreau, including Henry David Thoreau in the Twayne United States Authors Series and Approaches to Teaching Thoreau’s ‘‘Walden...

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