EDUCATION

B.A., City College of New York
Ph.D., Harvard University

Teaches courses on 19th and 20th century American poetry, American nature writing and Ecocriticism, and the Whitman tradition, among others. His articles and reviews, mostly on modern American poetry, have appeared in a wide range of journals, and his current project is an ecocritical study of the tensions between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in a variety of American literary texts.

COURSES

 EN131.01 - Studies in Poetry

 EN857.01- American Nature Writing

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• "Fabricating Ecocentric Discourse in the American Poem (and Elsewhere)," New Literary History 37 (2006): 425-445.
• Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem (1996).
• "Mountains and Rivers Are Us: Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature," College Literature 27 (2000): 119-138. Reprinted in The Beat Generation: Critical Essays (2002 ).
• "Frost and Modernism," American Literature 60 (1988): 1-16. Reprinted in On Frost: The Best from American Literature (1991).
• "Ecocriticism: What is it Good For?" ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 7(2000): 9-32. Reprinted in The ISLE READER: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003 (2003).