I am an educator and a writer.

My writing explores natural history,
literature, and disability.

Through teaching and outreach,
I study material culture and
the environmental humanities.

We express our sense of our relationship to nature in many ways: through art, literature, and science, and even through the landscapes we call home. I study these forms of expression, as well as what they reveal about our past, present, and collective future.

EVENTS

May 1, 2025
THE MAKING OF A YOUNG NATURALIST: SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER’S GRAND EUROPEAN TOUR (via ZOOM)
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York

October 25, 2024
AWARDING OF THE 2024 THOREAU PRIZE IN LITERARY NATURE WRITING
Award Committee Chair, Thoreau Prize Committee; Honoring J. Drew Lanham
Concord, Massachusetts

July 10-14, 2024
THOREAU & RESILIENCE
Conference Chair and Thoreau Society President, The 83rd Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society
Concord, Massachusetts

February 9, 2024
AMPUTATED EARTH
Invited Speaker, The Commons: A Seminar in Honor of Laura Dassow Walls
University of Miami

I am an educator and a writer.

My writing explores natural history, literature, and disability.

Through teaching and outreach, I study material culture and the environmental humanities.

We express our sense of our relationship to nature in many ways: through art, literature, and science, and even through the landscapes we call home. I study these forms of expression, as well as what they reveal about our past, present, and collective future.

EVENTS

My writing explores natural history,
literature, and disability.

Through teaching and outreach,
I study material culture and
the environmental humanities.