Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast

Contributors

Contributors larry aNdersoN is a freelance writer and independent scholar who lives in Little Compton, Rhode Island. He is the author, in 2002, of Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. matthew boliNder earned a Ph.D. in American literature at Boston College and has presented and written extensively on ecocritical issues. His dissertation , “Solid Forests and Fluid Utterances: Reading the Maine Woods,” addresses the interplay of language and place in northern Maine. He has recently manifested his convictions about sustainability and local products in a new business venture, Matt’s Wood Roasted Organic Coffee, in Pownal, Maine. pavel CeNkl is dean of academics and a professor of humanities and regional studies at Sterling College in Vermont. His recent scholarship focuses on intersections of literature, culture, and environment in New England and on issues of work and place. He is particularly drawn to teaching courses that connect students with community memory and the rural working landscape. He is the author, in 2006, of This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, 1784–1911. Natalie Coe is an associate professor of genetics and biochemistry at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, where she is currently the program director for biology and the division chair for sciences and outdoor leadership. She enjoys teaching and working with students both in the laboratory and in the field. She lives in Fair Haven, Vermont, with her husband and two young sons. kathleeN osgood daNa has lived her life in the Northern Forest, whether right in its heart in central Vermont or at its very edge in Lapland. Her intellectual interests have sought to connect these realities through comparative literature, especially that of northern native peoples. A teacher at the University of the Arctic, Dana interacts on a daily basis with the young northerners whose future will lie in the circumpolar world, some of it in the boreal forest that is the subject of this volume. 278 • CoNtributors loriaNNe disabato is an English instructor at Keene State College, where she teaches writing and American literature. She also teaches online courses through Southern New Hampshire University and Granite State College. In addition to her college teaching, she is also a senior dharma teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen. In her free time, she maintains a daily blog, “Hoarded Ordinaries,” which investigates in word and image the minute natural details of the two towns she calls home: Keene, New Hampshire, and Newton, Massachusetts. johN elder has taught English and environmental studies at Middlebury College since 1973. His three most recent books, Reading the Mountains of Home, The Frog Run, and Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa, have all combined description of Vermont’s landscape, personal memoir, and discussion of literary and environmental issues. With his wife and sons, he operates a sugarbush in the hills of Starksboro, Vermont. robert g. goodby has over 20 years of experience working on Native American archaeological sites in northern New England. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University in 1994 and has been on the faculty of Franklin Pierce University since 2000. He directs the Monadnock Archaeological Project, a long-term study of Native American history in southwestern New Hampshire, and is on the executive board of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce. johN r. harris is director of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce University and a faculty member in the environmental science and American studies departments. He received his B.A. in zoology and Ph. D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work on the study of place in the Monadnock region has appeared in Where the Mountain Stands Alone (2007), Teaching North American Environmental Literature (2008), and in Orion magazine. CatheriNe oweN koNiNg is a professor of environmental science at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. She received her B.A. in biology and environmental studies from Bowdoin College, her M.S. in ecology from the University of California at Davis, and her Ph.D. in environmental studies from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Koning’s interests are in wetland ecology, conservation biology, and sustainability. On the Franklin Pierce campus, she co-coordinates the environmental science program and directs campus sustainability efforts, most recently focusing on working towards climate neutrality. daNiel s. malaChuk teaches literature and the humanities at Western Illinois University–Quad Cities. His research interest is nineteenth-century literature...