Published Books
William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: the Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012).
Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth (New York: Routledge, 2005).
Published Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“Wordsworth’s Epitaphic Poetics and the Print Market.” Studies in Romanticism (SiR) 50:1 (2011): 55-78.
“Imagining an Everyday Nature.” International Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE) 17:1 (2010): 85-112.
“William Wordsworth and Photographic Subjectivity.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 63:3 (2008): 283–320.
“Tintern Abbey’s Environmental Legacy.” In Engaged Romanticism: Romanticism as Praxis. Ed. Mark Lussier and Bruce Matsunaga (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), 82-99.
“John Clare, William Wordsworth, and the (Un)Framing of Nature.” The John Clare Society Journal 27 (2008): 27-44.
“Three ‘Natures’: Teaching Romantic Ecology in the Poetry of William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, and John Clare.” Romantic Praxis, special issue of Romantic Circles Pedagogies Commons on “Romanticism, Ecology and Pedagogy,” ed. James McKusick and Bridget Keegan. December, 2006 (peer-reviewed, edited web journal: < http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/ commons/ecology/>).
“Wordsworth's ‘System,’ the Critical Reviews, and the Reconstruction of Literary Authority.” European Romantic Review 16:4 (2005): 471-97.
“Postmodern Pastoral, Advertising, and the Masque of Technology.” International Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE) 11:1 (2004): 71-100.
“‘Approach and Read’: Gray's Elegy, Print Culture, and Authorial Identity.” The Age of Johnson 13 (2002): 207-37.
“The Wedding Guest as Reader: ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’ as a Dramatization of Print Circulation and the Construction of the Authorial Self.” Nineteenth Century Studies 15 (2001): 19-36.
“Jousting in the Classroom: On Teaching Malory.” Arthuriana 9:1 (1999): 133-38.
Recent Conference Presentations (since 2007)
“John Clare, Ecological Abstraction, and the Abstraction of the Self.” Part of a panel on John Clare: Nature and the Self at the 2013 Modern Language Association Annual Convention, in Boston, Mass.
“Yoking Nature and Nation in ‘America the Beautiful’: A Study in Cultural Migration.” 2013 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference, at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
“Why Ecocriticism Still Needs 'Nature': the Example of Asher Durand.” Preconference seminar in “Ecocritical Art History,” at the 2013 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference, at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
“Landscapes of Genius in Wordsworth and Thoreau.” 2013 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference, at Boston University.
“Clean Animals and Soiled Humans: Muir, Animality, and Environmental Justice.” 2011 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference, at Indiana University, Bloomington.
“Early Modern Ecocriticism: the Eighteenth-Century Perspective.” 2011 Early Modern Literature and Ecocriticism seminar at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference, at Indiana University, Bloomington.
“Green Fields and Lonely Rooms: William Wordsworth’s Projection of the Urban Self onto Nature.” 2011 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference, in Park City, Utah.
“’In Lonely Rooms’: Constructing Romantic Nature from the City.” 2009 International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), at the City University of New York.
“William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship.” 2009 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
“A Home of Leisure in a Landscape of Work: the Cultural and Environmental Politics of Wordsworth’s Home at Grasmere.” 2008 International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), at Oakland University, Rochester, Mich.
“From Wilderness Chauvinism to Respect for an Everyday Nature.” 2007 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference, at Wofford College.