Profile

I'm a specialist in colonial and Early American Literature from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries, with particular interest in French colonial history and literature, in the exploration and cartography of North America, in Native American literature and ethnohistory, and in natural history and eco-criticism. I also teach courses for the Folklore and Environmental Studies programs, and have recently developed a research program in cars and automobility.  I have developed and taught at the UO include:

• ENVS 410/510  Ice and Fire in the Cascades
• FLR 320 Car Cultures
• ENG 209 Craft of the Sentence
• ENG 361 Native American Authors: D'Arcy McNickle and Louise Erdrich
• ENG 645 Libraries of Life: Species and Print, Extinction and Archive
• Honors College Colloquium 434: Revolution and Exile in the Atlantic World: France, the USA, and Haiti
• ENG 461 American Literature to 1800