University of Alaska Southeast Personnel

Assistant Professor of English

Work:796-6588

Fax: 796-6406

Email: sjray@uas.alaska.edu

Faculty: Arts and Sciences - Humanities /
Campus: Juneau

Education:

Ph.D. in 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:

"Risking Bodies in the Wild: The 'Corporeal Unconscious' of American Adventure Culture," Journal for Sport and Social Issues, August 2009.
"Endangering the Desert: Immigration, Ecology, and Security in the Arizona Borderland," ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment (forthcoming Winter 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.

Affiliations:

Association of American Geographers (AAG) & Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG)
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
American Studies Association (ASA) & Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PN ASA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)

Courses Taught:

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