I teach courses at all levels of the English curriculum, including lower- and upper-division undergraduate courses in American and environmental literature as well as graduate seminars.  

Recent publications include, “Making Walden and Its Sandbank,” Concord Saunterer Vol. 30 n.s. (2022), 10–58; https://digitalthoreau.org/making-walden-and-its-sandbank (posted May 5, 2023); “Thoreau’s Multiple Modernities,” in Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon, ed. François Specq, Michel Granger, and Laura Dassow Walls (Georgia, 2013); "Evolutionary Theory" in The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism, ed. Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, and Laura Dassow Walls (Oxford, 2010); Emerson and Thoreau: Figures of Friendship, ed., with John T. Lysaker (Indiana, 2010); and "Performing Loss, Elegy, and Transcendental Friendship," New England Quarterly 81 (2008), 252-77.

I work on nineteenth-century American literature and culture with particular research interests in New England Transcendentalism, history of science (especially evolutionary discourse), environmental writing, and "place studies."