Contributors
- Contributors
Michael Branch is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada-Reno. He serves as vice-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, assistant editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and book review editor of American Nature Writing Newsletter. He has published numerous articles on eco-criticism and on natural history writing and is currently co-editing a collection of nature writing from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley.
J. Baird Callicott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He is author of Earth’s Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback and In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. In 1971 he designed and taught the world’s first course in environmental ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
A. C. Goodson is author of Verbal Imagination: Coleridge and the Language of Modern Criticism and of Coleridge on Language and Understanding. Work in progress includes a monograph about Foucault’s lectures on classical polis theory (“L’histoire de la vérité”) and a book on literature and depression. At Michigan State University he is Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Comparative Literature.
Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor of History at the University of York. Her training was in the natural sciences, history and philosophy of science, and art history. Currently her intellectual enthusiasms are medicine and culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, historiography, and the history of music.
Rebecca Margolis is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she earned a B.A. in cultural anthropology. She is currently working in San Francisco as a photographer.
Katherine T. Meiners is Assistant Professor of English at Moorhead State University in Minnesota, where she teaches literature and writing. The present essay belongs to a larger study of nineteenth-century literary and medical institutions and of the related structures of pain and intelligibility in Romantic discourse.
Roma Heillig Morris is a clinical psychologist, visionary artist, and student and teacher of earth and Native American traditions. She has published on adolescent suicide and on women and healing, and her art has appeared in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. [End Page 161]
David B. Morris is a writer and lives in New Mexico. Associate Editor of Literature and Medicine, he is the author of numerous scholarly essays and three award-winning books, including The Culture of Pain, which received a pen prize. His most recent book is Earth Warrior.
Jessica Pierce is Assistant Professor of Bioethics—in the Department of Preventive and Societal Medicine—at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She writes and speaks on environmental ethics, specifically on the connections between environment and health care, and is active in environmental programs. She received her doctorate in theological ethics from the University of Virginia and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University.
Theodore Steinberg teaches history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. His most recent book is Slide Mountain, or the Folly of Owning Nature. Presently he is working on a book that explores the history of how Americans have responded to natural disasters.
Gary Snyder is a poet, essayist, and watershed activist. His most recent books are No Nature (new and selected poems) and A Place in Space (new and selected prose). He teaches occasionally at the University of California at Davis and lives in the northern California Sierra in a mixed community of pines, foresters, chaparral, carpenters, oaks, and naturalists.
Diane Wakoski is the Writer in Residence at Michigan State University and is currently working on a fourth volume in her epic of the West, Argonaut Rose. Her most recent book is The Emerald City of Las Vegas.
Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature at Tougaloo College, Mississippi, is co-editor of the anthology Black Southern Voices. A widely-published poet and critic, his work in progress includes Reading Race, Reading America: Social and Literary Essays and an oral autobiography of the civil rights activist Hollis Watkins.
