UAS Personnel

Education:

• Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, Studies and Policy, University of Oregon, 2009
• MA in American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
• BA Religious Studies and Women's Studies, Swarthmore College, 1998

Publications:

• Book manuscript under contract with University of Arizona Press, The Ecological Other: Bodies, Nature, and Exclusion, forthcoming 2013.
• "How Many Mothers Does It Take To Change All the Light Bulbs? The Myth of Green Motherhood", Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, August 2011.
• "Risking Bodies in the Wild: The 'Corporeal Unconscious' of American Adventure Culture," Journal for Sport and Social Issues, August 2009; 33; 257-284.
• "Endangering the Desert: Immigration, the Environment, and Security in the Arizona Borderland--Mexico Borderland," ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment, Autumn 2010.
• Book Review:  Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global, by Ursula K. Heise
• "Reimagining Landscape", book review of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization, by Jill H. Casid.
• Book Review, Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural, by Noel Sturgeon.
• Book Review: Bodily Natures: Science, the Environment, and the Material Self, by Stacy Alaimo.

Affiliations:

• Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS)
• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)

Courses Taught:

University of Alaska Southeast:

• Introduction to Geography
• Politics of the Body
• Dirty Natures: Race, Gender, and Justice 
• Ecocriticism
• Eco-Collapse: Fear, Risk, and Environmental Disaster
• Methods of Written Communication
• Introduction to College Writing

University of Oregon:

• Introduction to Environmental Literature
• Environment, Identity and Popular Culture
• Nature and Justice in American History
• Beginning College Composition
• Advanced College Composition
• College Composition