selected publications
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academic article
- How Nostalgia Drives and Derails Living with Wildland Fire in the American West. Fire-Switzerland. 5. 2022
- Pre-apocalypse Now Gold Fame Citrus as Weird Western Cli-Fi. Western American Literature. 56:199-214. 2021
- Setting the Stage for Justice: The Politics of Public Lands in the Contemporary US West Introduction. Western American Literature. 54:IX-XV. 2019
- Mountains, Monuments, and Other Matter: Environmental Affects at Manzanar. Environmental Humanities. 6:131-157. 2015
- 'Sovereignty of the Self': Interspecies Ethics in Sherman Alexie's Face. Studies in American Indian Literatures. 25:28-47. 2013
- 'Local Yearnings': Re-Placing Nostalgia in Don DeLillo's Underworld. The Journal of Ecocriticism. 2:1-18. 2010
- 'A Home for Civilizations': Nostalgia, Innocence, and the Frontier in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose. Western American Literature. 44:225-249. 2009
- 'A Limited Range of Motion?': Multiculturalism, 'Human Questions,' and Urban Indian Identity in Sherman Alexie's Ten LIttle Indians. Studies in American Indian Literatures. 21:36-57. 2009
- For the Love of Nature: Documenting Life, Death and Animality in Grizzly Man and March of the Penguins. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 16:53-90. 2009
- Rewriting Nature Tourism in 'an age of violence': Tactical College in Marianne Moore's An Octopus. Twentieth-Century Literature. 51:285-315. 2005
- Longing for Wonderland: Nostalgia for Nature in Post-Frontier America. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. 5:88-109. 2004
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book
- Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment and Public Memory at American Historical Sites. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press. 2019
- Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2012
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chapter
- Working with Animals: Regarding Companion Species in Documentary Film. Ecocinema Theory and Practice. Ed. Cubitt, Sean. New York: Routledge. 129-148. 2012
- New Frontiers for Ecofeminism: Women, Nature, and Globalization in Ruth L. Ozekiâs My Year of Meat. New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism. Ed. Campbell, Andrea. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 124-147. 2008
- Unlikely Alliances: Notes on a Green Culture of Life. Journal of Religion & Society Supplement. Ed. Simkins, Ronald. 2008
- Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene. Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 1-25.