In the classes I teach, we read and think about environmental representation and/or early and 19th-century American literature. This includes classes on pre-1900 American literature as well as others that cover more contemporary environmental writing, such as climate fiction (cli-fi) and wilderness literature. In my own writing and research, I often think about the intersection of literature, culture, nature, and science, and also about environmental representation in the U.S. West. But I've also published essays on William Faulkner and 1990s TV. The book I'm working on looks at the influence of non-Darwinian life sciences on popular and literary culture in the nineteenth-century U.S. I spent my own undergrad years at Vassar, and so have a strong affinity for both a liberal arts education and a small-college academic environment. I’m always happy to speak with students about literature, environmental issues, the environmental humanities, majoring in English or Environmental Studies, and anything else that you’d like to think through together.