Blogs:

Urbanture, August 2008-

Thoreau, Wilderness, and American Nature Writing, January 2009-

A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (3/13/2009)

Links  to Selected Class Syllabi on the Web:

English 360: Darwin and Romantic Natural History. . . . . Spring 2008

English 220: Critcal Approaches and Literary Methods . . . Fall 2009

English 379: Thoreau, Wilderness, and American Writing Spring 2009

English 404: Senior Critical Writing Workshop. . . . . . . .Spring 2009

English 403: Frankenstein and Other Romantic Monsters . Fall 2008

English 101: Small Poems, Big Ideas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fall 2007

First-Year Seminar: The Myth of Frankenstein . . . . . . . ..Fall 2007

English 403: The Postnational English Novel . . . . . . . . .  Fall 2006

   English 101: Literature and Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Spring 2005
 
English 404: Senior Critical Writing Workshop. . . . . . . Spring 2004

English 403: Revolutionary Romanticism . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fall 2003

English 101: Romantic Natural History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 2003

English 379: Romantic Nature Writing. . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Fall 2001

English 101: Romantics and Victorians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 2001

English 212: Writing About Nature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 1999

Freshman Seminar: The "Web" of Nature Writing . . . .. . Fall 1998

English 399: Wordsworth and Hardy in Hyperspace . . . . Fall 1996
Link to "Thomas Hardy's World"

Link to Selected Essays on the Web:

1) "Romantic Ecomorphism," "Ecomorphism and Ecoromanticism," "Wilding and Roosting," "Romantic Natural History," "Emerson and Infinity," "Urbanature." Romantic Circles Invited Blog Posts, with Tim Morton (UC-Davis) and Kurt Fosso (Lewis and Clark). Thematic Thread: Ecocriticism, 9-12/2008. [http://www.rc.umd.edu/blog_rc/]

2)"Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin"
(from The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 149:3 2005 )

3)"The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature"
(from Romantic Circles Praxis Series on "Romantic Ecology," November 2001)

4)"Romantic Rhinos and Victorian Vipers: The Zoo as Nineteenth-Century Spectacle"
(from A Romantic Natural History: 1750-1859)

5)"The Anxiety of Species: Toward a Romantic Natural History"
(from The Wordsworth Circle 28:3 (1997): 130-36)

6)"Hyping the Hypertext: Scholarship and the Limits of Technology"
(Loyola University Chicago electronic publications, October 1996)

Publications with Additional Web Links:

  Romantic Natural Histories: William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin and Others (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

  The Revolutionary "I": Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation (Macmillan / St. Martin's, 1998)

  The Poetics of Epiphany: Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Modern Literary Moment (Alabama, 1987)

  "Mumbo Jumbo: Mungo Park and the Rhetoric of Romantic Africa," Romanticism, Race, & Imperial Culture (Indiana, 1996)
 
 "Face to Face with Wild Dophins," Sea Stories: An International Journal of Art and Writing (2006-07)  

"In the field there is an animal," "Open Season," and "Animate Nature": poems in Terrain and Best of Terrain (2002)
 

A Romantic Natural History: 1750-1859:
A website designed to survey literary and natural history resources from the century before Charles Darwin

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