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

October 3-5, 2025
EXPANDING CIRCLES: TRANSCENDENTALISM’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Invited Participant, Workshop Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
Concord, Massachusetts

Summer 2025
WRITING THE BODY IN PLACE and THOREAU’S WALDEN: ON MATTER, NATURE, and MEANING
Faculty, Bread Loaf School of English
Ripton, Vermont

June 7, 2025
AWARDING OF THE 2025 THOREAU PRIZE IN LITERARY NATURE WRITING: HONORING ROBERT MACFARLANE
Award Committee Chair, Thoreau Prize Committee
Concord, Massachusetts—WATCH LIVE at 7PM: https://www.youtube.com/@TriConChurch/streams

May 1, 2025 at 7PM Eastern Time
THE MAKING OF A YOUNG NATURALIST: SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER’S GRAND EUROPEAN TOUR (via ZOOM)
Watch here: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Youth in Europe: The Making of Environmental Understanding
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; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQy4SKzC9Yw

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